How to Manage Your Security Risks

Deciphering the Criticality of Safeguarding Against Security Threats As digital natives, we are well aware that the urgency and importance of ensuring digital safety can't be minimized. The escalating vector of sophisticated digital attacks has brandished a double-edged sword, threatening both...

Coin Flips Are Biased

Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips to test the counterintuitive prediction from a physics model of human coin tossing developed by Pers...

CVE-2023-38537

A race condition in a network transport subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established or unsilenced incoming audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability...

x86/AMD: Zenbleed

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Researchers at Google have discovered Zenbleed, a hardware bug causing corruption of the vector registers. When a VZEROUPPER instruction is discarded as part of a bad transient execution path, its effect on internal tracking are not unwound correctly. This manifests as the wrong...

Vault.sponsor may take away the prize chance from the receiver.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact TwabController.delegateBalance is related to the probability to get the prize, and Vault.sponsor can make the others' delegateBalance to 0. A malicious user can send a small amount of assets to every depositor and be the only prize taker. Proof of Concep...

Vulristics News: EPSS v3 Support, Integration into Cloud Advisor

Vulristics News: EPSS v3 Support, Integration into Cloud Advisor. Hello everyone! This episode will focus on the news from my open source Vulristics project for vulnerability analysis and prioritization. Alternative video link for Russia: https://vk.com/video-149273431456239122 EPSS v3 The third...

Visforms Base Package for Joomla!, 4, SQL Injection

Project: Visforms für Joomla 3 Extension: comvisforms Impact: Critical Severity: High Probability: Unkonwn Versions: 3.8.0 - 3.14.10 Exploit type: SQL Injection Reported Date: 2023-04-16 Fixed Date: 2023-04-19 CVE Number: CVE-2023-23753 Description An improper use of input filter allows...

If random number is too low, the lottery not completely random

Summary Random numbers below a certain limit will always return at least one rightmost bit, while numbers above this limit will return random bits. Explanation: 1. The winning ticket is generated based on an array of numbers generated by module randomNumber to selectionMax-n.:...

The minimum values of selectionMax and selectionSize are not verified when creating a lottery, which may create an unreasonable lottery

Lines of code Vulnerability details Summary src/LotterySetup.sol constructorLotterySetupParams memory lotterySetupParams if addresslotterySetupParams.token == address0 revert RewardTokenZero; if lotterySetupParams.ticketPrice == uint2560 revert TicketPriceZero; if lotterySetupParams.selectionSize...

winning ticket odds are not distributed equally amongst users

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact some users will be able to game the system and get optimal odds of winning both jackpot and non jackpot rewards. Making the entire protocol unfair for users. Proof of Concept The way Wenwin is intended to function is every combination has equal odds of...

CVE-2023-0524

As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges. We have resolved the issue...

New XLoader Botnet Version Using Probability Theory to Hide its C&C Servers

An enhanced version of the XLoader malware has been spotted adopting a probability-based approach to camouflage its command-and-control C&C infrastructure, according to the latest research. "Now it is significantly harder to separate the wheat from the chaff and discover the real C&C servers amon...

Integer overflow

Apache PLC4X - PLC4C Only the C language implementation was effected was vulnerable to an unsigned integer underflow flaw inside the tcp transport. Users should update to 0.9.1, which addresses this issue. However, in order to exploit this vulnerability, a user would have to actively connect to a...

Vulnerability fixed in vSphere Replication

VMWare has fixed a vulnerability in vSphere Replicator. A malicious person with management privileges in Replicator can exploit the vulnerability exploit it to execute arbitrary code with system privileges on the underlying system. Because such an attack fits into the so-called "evil admin"...

Exif-Gps-Tracer - A Python Script Which Allows You To Parse GeoLocation Data From Your Image Files Stored In A dataset

A python script which allows you to parse GeoLocation data from your Image files stored in a dataset.It also produces output in CSV file and also in HTML Google Maps Prerequisite To run this script fluently , 1 You should have Google Maps API 2 You should enable Map JavaScript API in Console To g...

ISC DHCP < 4.4.1 DoS

The DHCP server version installed on the remote host is prior to 4.4.1. It is, therefore, vulnerable to a denial of service condition. There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode. There was also a bug in dhcpd relatin...

Medium: dhcp

Issue Overview: There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode. There was also a bug in dhcpd relating to the use of this function per its documentation, but the bug in the library function prevented this from causing an...

Probably?

Remy Sharp asked a question on Twitter that got me thinking about probability for the first time in a while. The problem Get your copybooks out now! Remy is using an image service that has an API which returns a URL for one of its images, picked at random. Remy makes five requests to the service,...

Probably?

Remy Sharp asked a question on Twitter that got me thinking about probability for the first time in a while. The problem Get your copybooks out now! Remy is using an image service that has an API which returns a URL for one of its images, picked at random. Remy makes five requests to the service,...

Insecure Pseudo-Random Number Generator

generate-password uses insecure pseudo-random number generator to generate a random number used in password generation. This results in biasness in the probability distribution of generated characters when the character count does not divide 256...