Policy and Disclosure: 2020 Edition

Posted by Tim Willis, Project Zero At Project Zero, we spend a lot of time discussing and evaluating vulnerability disclosure policies and their consequences for users, vendors, fellow security researchers, and software security norms of the the larger industry. We're very happy with how well our...

Supply-Chain Security and Trust

The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general: We have no choice but to trust them completely, and it's impossible to verify that they're trustworthy. Solving this problem ­ which is...

CVE-2018-0393

A Read-Only User Effect Change vulnerability in the Policy Builder interface of Cisco Policy Suite could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to make policy changes in the Policy Builder interface. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization controls. An attacker could exploit this...

CVE-2018-0393

Cisco Policy Suite's Policy Builder interface is affected by CVE-2018-0393, a Read-Only User Effect Change vulnerability caused by insufficient authorization controls. An authenticated, remote attacker could modify an HTTP request via the Policy Builder interface to change existing policies. The ...

Cisco Policy Suite Read-Only User Effect Change Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Policy Builder interface of Cisco Policy Suite could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to make policy changes in the Policy Builder interface. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing th...

AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool: Zeus

Zeus is a powerful tool for AWS EC2 / S3 / CloudTrail / CloudWatch / KMS best hardening practices. It checks security settings according to the profiles the user creates and changes them to recommended settings based on the CIS AWS Benchmark source at request of the user. Identity and Access...

Pentagon Approves Samsung KNOX Android Platform for DoD

Android has long been the outcast of mobile device security largely because hackers have been adept at getting malware onto the platform via third-party application marketplaces and lax submission policies on Google Play. The security of the operating system itself, however, hasn’t been challenge...

Report: FTC Nears Deal with Facebook For Opt-In Privacy Changes

The deal will settle an FTC case alleging privacy violations on the social network by forcing users to opt in to any changes to default privacy settings, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The FTC inquiry dates back more than two years, and followed changes to the default privacy...

Design/Logic Flaw

BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2, when running in a WebLogic Server clustered environment using WebLogic Portal entitlements, does not properly propagate entitlement policy changes if the changes are made on a managed server while the Administrative Server is unavailable, which might allow attackers to...

CVE-2007-0426

BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2, when running in a WebLogic Server clustered environment using WebLogic Portal entitlements, does not properly propagate entitlement policy changes if the changes are made on a managed server while the Administrative Server is unavailable, which might allow attackers to...

CVE-1999-0575

A Windows NT system's user audit policy does not log an event success or failure, e.g. for Logon and Logoff, File and Object Access, Use of User Rights, User and Group Management, Security Policy Changes, Restart, Shutdown, and System, and Process Tracking...