Securing Databases with Qualys Policy Compliance

Data is the most valuable asset that an organization holds, and the most common target for malicious attackers. According to Forbes, in the first six months of 2019, data breach incidents exposed an astounding 4.1 billion records worldwide. Hackers successfully attacked government agencies as wel...

Top 19+ Vulnerability CVEs in Santa’s Dashboard Tracking

A recent report identified 19+ vulnerabilities that should be mitigated by end of year 2019. These are a range of top vulnerabilities attacked and leveraged by Advance Persistent Threat APT actors from all parts of the world. The list below shows those top 19 vulnerabilities, and it should be no...

OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader CVE-2019-19726. The dlgetenv function fails to reset the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable when set with approximately ARGMAX colons. This can be abused to load libutil.so from an untrusted path, using...

OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader...

Blue is a color we love but can’t Keep!

Recent reports this year revealed nearly 1 million computer systems are still vulnerable and exposed to BlueKeep in the wild. These systems are still easy targets for an unauthenticated attacker or malware to execute code leveraging this patchable vulnerability. Because so many systems are still...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, December 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Qualys FIM Profile Library Updates, December 2019

The library of out-of-the-box profiles in Qualys File Integrity Monitoring FIM, with their preconfigured content, provide a scalable solution to detect and identify critical changes, incidents, and risks resulting from normal as well as malicious events. With the help of these profiles, users can...

Announcing New Customer Support Portal and Unified Search

Qualys is rolling out new unified search and an improved online customer support experience, along with Support content integrated directly into Qualys Community. It's coming in January 2020. These new features are part of our efforts to enable customer success with an integrated community...

OpenBSD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2019-19726)

Qualys Research Labs discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenBSD's dynamic loader. The vulnerability could allow local users or malicious software to gain full root privileges. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerability and released security patches in less than 3...

Qualys Security Advisory - OpenBSD Dynamic Loader Privilege Escalation

Qualys Security Advisory Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader CVE-2019-19726 ============================================================================== Contents ============================================================================== Summary Analysis Demonstration...

CVE-2019-11016: Open Redirect Vulnerability

Earlier this year the Qualys Web Application Scanning team discovered and reported an open redirect vulnerability CVE-2019-11016 in Elgg, an open source rapid development framework for socially aware web applications, which the Elgg team promptly fixed. Versions of the Elgg framework before 1.12....

OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader CVE-2019-19726. The dlgetenv function fails to reset the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable when set with approximately ARGMAX colons. This can be abused to load libutil.so from an untrusted path, using LDLIBRARYPATH in...

OpenBSD Hit with Authentication, LPE Bugs

An authentication bypass and three local privilege-escalation LPE bugs have been uncovered in OpenBSD, the Unix-like open-source operating system known for its security protections. The most severe of the vulnerabilities is the bypass CVE-2019-19521, which is remotely exploitable. OpenBSD uses BS...

OpenBSD Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities

Multiple authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD have been disclosed by Qualys Research Labs. The vulnerabilities are assigned following CVEs: CVE-2019-19522, CVE-2019-19521, CVE-2019-19520, CVE-2019-19519. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerabilities and also provided a quick response...

Qualys Security Advisory - OpenBSD Authentication Bypass / Privilege Escalation

Qualys Security Advisory Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD ============================================================================== Contents ============================================================================== 1. CVE-2019-19521: Authentication bypass 1.1. Analysis 1.2. Cas...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.42 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.42 includes updates and new features for Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Web Application Scanning Additional XSS Payloads – A new option is available to have additional XSS payloads used in a standard vulnerability scan...

Streamlining and Automating Compliance

There are seemingly countless regulatory and industry frameworks out there that organizations have to navigate and comply with. SOX Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, GDPR General Data Protection Regulation, HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.22 New Features (VM, PC)

Update December 11, 2019: See additional details about this release. The 8.22.0 release adds several new features in Qualys Cloud Platform, adds a new API in Policy Compliance and support for 2 new technologies for OCA. Feature Highlights Qualys Cloud Platform Support for DNS tracking – You can n...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, November 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

The Power and Future of the Qualys Cloud Platform

Qualys Security Conference 2019 kicked off this morning at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. The event actually began on Monday with training sessions over the first two days, but this morning hundreds of attendees filled a conference room to listen to keynote presentations about the state of...