Security Patch for Two New Flaws in Curl Library Arriving on October 11

The maintainers of the Curl library have released an advisory warning of two security vulnerabilities that are expected to be addressed as part of an forthcoming update set for release on October 11, 2023. This includes a high-severity and a low-severity flaw tracked under the identifiers...

Curl 8.4.0 – Proactively Identifying Potential Vulnerable Assets

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, the curl project maintainers announced pre-notification for curl version 8.4.0 to be released on October 11. This version will fix two new vulnerabilities with one high and one low-severity CVE. The prenotification stated that the high-severity issue is arguably the...

PCI DSS 4.0 FIM Requirements Simplified with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring FIM is one of the essential requirements under PCI DSS 4.0. It helps organizations detect and respond to unauthorized changes in critical system files, configuration files, or content files, which is crucial for maintaining the security of cardholder data. Organizations...

Exploit for Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Gnu Glibc

PoC of CVE-2023-4911 "Looney Tunables" This is a PoC of CVE-2...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5514-1] glibc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5514-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso October 03, 2023 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2023-4911: Looney Tunables – Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc’s ld.so

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Librarys dynamic loaders processing of the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. We have successfully identified and exploited this vulnerability a local privilege escalation that grants full root privileges...

Qualys Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing, 2023. Web app security is critical for every organization, for attacks on this vector caused 25% of breaches, according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. T...

Qualys Is the Outperformer in the New GigaOm Radar Report for Continuous Vulnerability Management

GigaOm has unveiled its third-annual Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management featuring Qualys. In this Report, GigaOm provides a detailed analysis of the value and progression of vulnerability management VM capabilities to help organizations build the best security and vulnerability...

CVE-2023-4777

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

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An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777 Incorrect Permission Assignment on Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777 Incorrect Permission Assignment on Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777

CVE-2023-4777 affects Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin for Jenkins (versions ≤ 1.6.2.6). The root cause is an incorrect permission check that lets an attacker with global Item/Configure permission, but not per-job Item/Configure, enumerate credential IDs stored in Jenkins and connect to...

PT-2023-30598 · Qualys · Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin versions 1.6.2.6 and earlier Description: An incorrect permission check in the Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission, but lacking...

Qualys Top 20 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities

The earlier blog posts showcased an overview of the vulnerability threat landscape that is either remotely exploited or most targeted by attackers. A quick recap – We focused on high-risk vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited with or without authentication, and with the view on the time ...

Elevate Your Security Posture: Implementing CIS Top 18 Controls Through Qualys Cloud Platform

The Center for Internet Security CIS is a 501c3 nonprofit organization originally formed in October 2000. CIS has created what is considered one of the industry’s “gold standard” security frameworks based on its mission to “help people, businesses, and governments protect themselves against...

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper. Hello everyone! This month I decided NOT to make an episode completely dedicated to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Instead, this episode will be an...

Qualys Tackles 2022’s Top Routinely Exploited Cyber Vulnerabilities

A unified front against malicious cyber actors is climactic in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, a collaboration between leading cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, is a critical guide to...

Risk Fact #2: Weaponized Vulnerabilities Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...