A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1037-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

macro_pack - Tool Used To Automatize Obfuscation And Generation Of Ms Office Documents For Pentest, Demo, And Social Engineering Assessments

The macropack is a tool used to automatize obfuscation and generation of retro formats such as MS Office documents or VBS like format. This tool can be used for redteaming, pentests, demos, and social engineering assessments. macropack will simplify antimalware solutions bypass and automatize the...

Tracking changes in CERT bulletins and Nessus plugins using Vulners Time Machine

If you use Vulners.com vulnerability search engine, you probably know that it has a real "Time Machine". Each time Vulners sees some changes on a source page it creates a new version of security object. And you can see the full history of changes in a nice GUI: In most cases, the vendor just...

MS-ISAC Releases Advisory on PHP Vulnerabilities

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC has released an advisory on multiple Hypertext Preprocessor PHP vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review...

ms-coc.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-484341 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ms-coc.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure based on...

Automatize Obfuscation and Generation of MS Office Documents: macro_pack

The macropack is a tool used to automatize obfuscation and generation of MS Office documents for pentest, demo, and social engineering assessments. The goal of macropack is to simplify antimalware solutions bypass and automatize the process from vba generation to final Office document generation...

MS-Word Payload Delivery: Macro Creator

Invoke-MacroCreator is a powershell Cmdlet that allows for the creation of an MS-Word document embedding a VBA macro with various payload delivery and execution capabilities. Description Basically the script supports three types of payload that you MUST specify using the -t argument: 1. shellcode...

Processing .docx and .xlsx files with Python

MS Office documents are probably one of the most inconvenient and poorly formalized data sources. It's much better to keep all the data in specialized databases or at least in wiki. But in real life, MS Office documents are in active use in nearly every organization. Simply because it is a flexib...

ms-gmbh.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-441184 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ms-gmbh.de Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet...

MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware

By Waqas Italian security researcher Lino Antonio Buono discovered a security flaw This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: tnef-1.4.15-1.fc25

This application provides a way to unpack Microsoft MS-TNEF MIME attachment s. It operates like tar in order to unpack files of type "application/ms-tnef", which may have been placed into the MS-TNEF attachment instead of being attached separately. Such files may have attachment names similar to...

Regular Expression Denial of Service in ms

Versions of ms prior to 0.7.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed. Proof of Concept javascript var ms = require'ms'; var genstr = function len, chr var result = ""; for i=0; i=len; i++ result = result + chr; return...

192.168.0.172 (=4.6.1), 352-wascally (>=0.2.4 <=0.2.5) +5443 more potentially affected by CVE-2015-8315 via ms (>=0.1.0 <=0.7.0)

ms NPM version =0.1.0, =0.2.4, =1.0.0, =0.2.0, =0.0.1, =0.0.8, =1.8.0, =0.1.0, =1.0.0, =0.9.0, =1.4.0, =1.0.1, =3.1.2 - @asbjornenge/microbe =1.0.1 - @auser/metalsmith-watch =1.0.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2015-8315 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-3FX5-FWVR-XRJG...

GHSA-3FX5-FWVR-XRJG Regular Expression Denial of Service in ms

Versions of ms prior to 0.7.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed. Proof of Concept javascript var ms = require'ms'; var genstr = function len, chr var result = ""; for i=0; i=len; i++ result = result + chr; return...

Juniper Junos SRX Flowd Crash Vulnerability (JSA10811)

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Junos device is affected by a vulnerability where one or more ALGs enabled may cause a flowd crash when traffic is processed by the Sun/MS-RPC ALGs. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid104033;...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: tnef-1.4.15-1.fc27

This application provides a way to unpack Microsoft MS-TNEF MIME attachment s. It operates like tar in order to unpack files of type "application/ms-tnef", which may have been placed into the MS-TNEF attachment instead of being attached separately. Such files may have attachment names similar to...

KLA11121 ACE vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

A remote code execution vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability can be exploited via a specially designed MS Office document to execute arbitrary code. Technical details To update Adobe Flash Player ActiveX detected as Flash.ocx on Windows 8 and higher, install latest...

Design/Logic Flaw

Any Juniper Networks SRX series device with one or more ALGs enabled may experience a flowd crash when traffic is processed by the Sun/MS-RPC ALGs. This vulnerability in the Sun/MS-RPC ALG services component of Junos OS allows an attacker to cause a repeated denial of service against the target...

CVE-2017-10608

Any Juniper Networks SRX series device with one or more ALGs enabled may experience a flowd crash when traffic is processed by the Sun/MS-RPC ALGs. This vulnerability in the Sun/MS-RPC ALG services component of Junos OS allows an attacker to cause a repeated denial of service against the target...