PAN-OS: Panorama management server log injection

A missing authorization vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS Panorama allows a remote unauthenticated user to inject messages into the management server ms.log file. This vulnerability can be leveraged to obfuscate an ongoing attack or fabricate log entries in the ms.log fil...

PAN-OS: Spoofed Kerberos key distribution center authentication bypass

An authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability exists in the authentication daemon and User-ID components of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS by failing to verify the integrity of the Kerberos key distribution center KDC before authenticating users. This affects all forms of authentication that use ...

PAN-OS: Panorama External control of file vulnerability leads to privilege escalation

An external control of path and data vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama XSLT processing logic that allows an unauthenticated user with network access to PAN-OS management interface to write attacker supplied file on the system and elevate privileges. This issue affects: All...

PAN-OS: Panorama SD WAN arbitrary file creation

An external control of filename vulnerability in the SD WAN component of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama allows an authenticated administrator to send a request that results in the creation and write of an arbitrary file on all firewalls managed by the Panorama. In some cases this results in...

Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes

A convincing cyberattack that impersonates notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the Office 365 credentials of employees is making the rounds, according to researchers. Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal...

Update adds BPA rules for DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012

Update adds BPA rules for DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012 Introduction This article describes an update that adds new Best Practices Analyzer BPA rules. The rules are for DirectAccess on the servers that are running Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012. The...

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management server

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions...

Fuji Electric V-Server Lite

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: V-Server Lite Vulnerability: Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated...

GE Digital CIMPLICITY

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.0 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: GE Digital Equipment: CIMPLICITY Vulnerability: Improper Privilege Management 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an adversary to modify the systemwide CIMPLICITY configuration,...

NCSA Small Business Webinar Series

Working from home? How do you keep your employees cyber-safe and cyber-secure? How do you protect your reputation, profit, and cash flow when you depend on your IT infrastructure as never before? The National Cyber Security Alliance is hosting a series of webinars for small business owners, and...

Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom

Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris Johnson had a cabinet meeting over Zoom. Over that same period, the company has been exposed for...

DRIVE.NET, Inc.: [www.drive2.ru] Insufficient Security Configurability - Notification email is not sent when email is changed.

A notification email is not sent when the email address is changed. Notification email is not sent when email is changed. Best Practices As recommended practices, Important tasks like changing emails should have notification emails. |Technical severity|VRT category| Specific vulnerability...

The AWS Service to Focus On – Amazon EC2

If we run a contest for Mr. Popular of Amazon Web Services AWS, without a doubt Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 has ‘winner’ written all over it. However, what’s popular is not always what is critical for your business to focus on. There is popularity and then there is dependability. Let’s...

ImpressCMS 1.3.11 - Why you should not trust PHP_SELF

We scanned the at the time current version 1.3.11 of ImpressCMS and found an unauthorized SQL Injection vulnerability. The exploit affects installations that use PDO as a database driver. The issue was fixed in version 1.4.0, though the patch does not follow best practices and might not be...

Schneider Electric IGSS SCADA Software

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: IGSS Interactive Graphical SCADA System Vulnerabilities: Path Traversal, Missing Authentication for Critical Function 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of...

PAN-OS: A format string vulnerability in PAN-OS log daemon (logd) on Panorama allows local privilege escalation

A format string vulnerability in the PAN-OS log daemon logd on Panorama allows a network based attacker with knowledge of registered firewall devices and access to Panorama management interfaces to execute arbitrary code, bypassing the restricted shell and escalating privileges. This issue affect...

PAN-OS: Predictable temporary filename vulnerability allows local privilege escalation

A predictable temporary filename vulnerability in PAN-OS allows local privilege escalation. This issue allows a local attacker who bypassed the restricted shell to execute commands as a low privileged user and gain root access on the PAN-OS hardware or virtual appliance. This issue affects only...

PAN-OS: Shell injection vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI allows execution of shell commands

A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions...

CIA Dirty Laundry Aired

Joshua Schulte, the CIA employee standing trial for leaking the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools, maintains his innocence. And during the trial, a lot of shoddy security and sysadmin practices are coming out: All this raises a question, though: just how bad is the CIA's security that it wasn't...

Real-life cybercrime stories from DART, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team

When we published our first blog about the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART in March of 2019, we described our mission as responding to compromises and helping our customers become cyber-resilient. In pursuit of this mission we had already been providing onsite reactive incident respons...