VICIdial Authenticated Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VICIdial Authenticated Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q An attacker with authenticated access to VICIdial as an "agent" can execute...

Chicago API Security Summit 2024

Thank You Chicago! Earlier this week we had the pleasure of hosting a regional API Security Summit in Chicago well, actually in Lombard. These summits bring together the local cybersecurity community for half-day of API Security-focused content, including expert speakers and panelists. While this...

CVE-2024-8504

An attacker with authenticated access to VICIdial as an "agent" can execute arbitrary shell commands as the "root" user. This attack can be chained with CVE-2024-8503 to execute arbitrary shell commands starting from an unauthenticated perspective...

CVE-2024-8504

CVE-2024-8504 is an authenticated Remote Code Execution in VICIdial (v2.14-917a) via OS command injection. An attacker with agent-level access can run commands as root; the issue can be chained with CVE-2024-8503 (unauthenticated SQLi) to escalate from unauthenticated context. Public sources conf...

CVE-2023-45896

ntfs3 in the Linux kernel through 6.8.0 allows a physically proximate attacker to read kernel memory by mounting a filesystem e.g., if a Linux distribution is configured to allow unprivileged mounts of removable media and then leveraging local access to trigger an out-of-bounds read. A length val...

Akamai’s Perspective on August’s Patch Tuesday 2024

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Examining the Polyfill Attack from Akamai's Point of View

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HackerOne: [Spot Check] - Ability to disclose metadata about Spot Checks (Number of Hackers + Hackers Criteria) via "SpotCheckSingleQuery"

A vulnerability was discovered that allowed hackers to disclose private metadata about Spot Checks, including the number of hackers and the selection criteria. The vulnerability was triggered by navigating to a specific URL and accessing the "SpotCheckSingleQuery" parameter, which returned this...

SUSE CVE-2024-31852

LLVM before 18.1.3 generates code in which the LR register can be overwritten without data being saved to the stack, and thus there can sometimes be an exploitable error in the flow of control. This affects the ARM backend and can be demonstrated with Clang. NOTE: the vendor perspective is "we...

CVE-2024-23724

Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with the API on localhost TCP port 3001. NOTE: The discoverer reports that "The vendor does not view th...

Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023: Insights, Mitigators and Best Practices

John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report is an annual report that provides organizations with quantifiable information about the financial...

Expanded Coverage and New Attack Path Visualizations Help Security Teams Prioritize Cloud Risk and Understand Blast Radius

Cloud environments differ in a number of ways from more traditional on-prem environments. From the immense scale and compounding complexity to the rate of change, the cloud creates a host of challenges for security teams to navigate and grapple with. By definition, anything running in the cloud h...

Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Akamai’s Perspective on October’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Transactional Rollback Strategies with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications In th...

Wallarm Webinar: NIST CSF 2.0, API Security, and CISO Imperatives

Last week, our good friend Raj Umadas, Director of Security at ActBlue, teamed up with our very own Tim Erlin, Head of Product, to talk about the newly proposed NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF. It was a fantastic discussion covering the intent behind this update, the major changes from v1.1 to...

Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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GHSA-Q4PP-J36H-3GQG Minimal `basti` IAM Policy Allows Shell Access

Summary The provided Minimal IAM Policy for bastic connect does not include ssm:SessionDocumentAccessCheck. This results in the ability to get a shell session on the bastion, not just the intended access for Port Forwarding. Details basti connect is designed to "securely connect to your...

CVE-2023-39125

NTSC-CRT 2.2.1 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in loadBMP in bmprw.c because a file's width, height, and BPP are not validated. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is "this main application was not intended to be a well tested program, it's just something to demonstrate it works and fo...