Attack Campaigns Ramp Up for Organizations Down Under

DDoS and AppSec attacks impacting the ANZ region Australia and New Zealand have been in the headlines of late, with several high profile companies seeing prolonged outages and leading to speculation as to whether the region is being specifically targeted? Let’s take a closer look at the types of...

CVE-2021-41100

Wire-server is the backing server for the open source wire secure messaging application. In affected versions it is possible to trigger email address change of a user with only the short-lived session token in the Authorization header. As the short-lived token is only meant as means of...

CVE-2021-41093

Wire is an open source secure messenger. In affected versions if the an attacker gets an old but valid access token they can take over an account by changing the email. This issue has been resolved in version 3.86 which uses a new endpoint which additionally requires an authentication cookie. See...

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We dont yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other...

PT-2021-23082 · Wire · Wire

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Wire versions prior to 3.86 Description: The issue allows an attacker to take over an account by changing the email if they obtain an old but valid access token. This is possible due to insufficient security measures in place prior to the...

in pheditor/pheditor

Description With your new fix in https://github.com/pheditor/pheditor/commit/69a79e3ba7f4a9f844cf5919c14a953e4a0d1867, it is basically impossible to change the password now because you forgot to add in the CSRF token in the reset password functionality, hence the password cannot be changed from...

ntfs-3g: Heap buffer overflow in ntfs_compressed_pwrite()

The ntfs3g package is susceptible to a heap overflow on crafted input. When processing an NTFS image, proper bounds checking was not enforced leading to this software flaw. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability...

[eBook] Your First 90 Days as CISO — 9 Steps to Success

Chief Information Security Officers CISOs are an essential pillar of an organization’s defense, and they must account for a lot. Especially for new CISOs, this can be a daunting task. The first 90 days for a new CISO are crucial in setting up their security team, so there is little time to waste,...

Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security

The internet infrastructure company wants to protect your inbox from targeted threats, starting with the launch of two new tools...

mysql:8.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

mysql 8.0.26-1 - Update to MySQL 8.0.26 8.0.25-1 - Update to MySQL 8.0.25 8.0.24-1 - Update to MySQL 8.0.24 - Upstreamed patch: mysql-main-cast.patch 8.0.23-1 - Update to MySQL 8.0.23 - Created mysql-fix-includes-robin-hood.patch - Created mysql-main-cast.patch 8.0.22-1 - Update to MySQL 8.0.22 -...

BlackMatter Strikes Iowa Farmers Cooperative, Demands $5.9M Ransom

A ransomware group believed to be the latest incarnation of the infamous DarkSide cybergang is being blamed for taking out a farmers’ cooperative online network, with extortionists demanding $5.9 million in ransom. The group BlackMatter is credited for the attack on an Iowa collective of farmers...

Login Authentication Goes Automated With New InsightAppSec Improvements

Move over, macros — automated login is here. At Rapid7, we know the most powerful tools in your security portfolio are the ones that help you understand your risks quickly. With our new automated login for InsightAppSec, you can access and scan even the most complex, modern applications quickly a...

CVE-2021-24398

The Add new scene functionality in the Responsive 3D Slider WordPress plugin through 1.2 uses an id parameter which is not sanitised, escaped or validated before being inserted to a SQL statement, leading to SQL injection. This is a time based SQLI and in the same function vulnerable parameter is...

The vulnerability of the Nodemailer email sending library, related to insufficient elimination of specific elements in requests, allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the Nodemailer email-sending library relates to insufficient elimination of new line characters and the return key in requests. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

Reentrancy in settleAuction(): malicious publisher can bypass index timelock mechanism, inject malicious index, and rug the basket

Handle kenzo Vulnerability details The settleAuction function calls withdrawBounty before setting auctionOngoing = false, thereby allowing reentrancy. Impact A malicious publisher can bypass the index timelock mechanism and publish new index which the basket's users won't have time to respond to...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Clone your way to code execution We’ve had a busy week bringing you exploits, features, enhancements, and fixes. Exploit modules for Git and El Finder lead the pack this week with an information disclosure against Jira and a post exploitation module targeting Geutebruck white-labelled cameras to...

Download Kali Linux 2021.3 with Kali NetHunter on smartwatch, new tools

By Waqas Kali Linux 2021.3 comes with a range of new pentest tools and a brand-new OpenSSL configuration to enhance the attack surface. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Download Kali Linux 2021.3 with Kali NetHunter on smartwatch, new tools...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for fail2ban (openSUSE-SU-2021:1274-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Bounties payout will get stuck on publishing new index

Handle csanuragjain Vulnerability details Impact User funds will get stuck in case Auction is restarted via publishNewIndex Proof of Concept 1. Publisher publishes new index using publishNewIndex function of Basket.sol function publishNewIndexaddress memory tokens, uint256 memory weights...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1274-1 Security update for fail2ban

This update for fail2ban fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-32749: prevent a command injection via mail command boo1188610 - Integrate change to resolve boo1146856 and boo1180738 Update to 0.11.2 - increased stability, filter and action updates New Features and Enhancements fail2ban-regex: -...