Nude “before and after” photos stolen from plastic surgeon, posted online, and sent to victims’ family and friends

The FBI is investigating a data breach where cybercriminals were able to steal patients’ records from a Las Vegas plastic surgeons office, and then post the details online which included nude photos. In February, cybercriminals gained access to Hankins & Sohns network, which has offices in both...

Modern Asian APT groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)

Almost every quarter, someone publishes major research focusing on campaigns or incidents that involve Asian APT groups. These campaigns and incidents target various organizations from a multitude of industries. Likewise, the geographic location of victims is not limited to just one region. This...

Apache ModSecurity WAF Bypass

The vulnerability of the WAF engine for Apache ModSecurity is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to bypass existing network firewall rules...

kernel: net/mlx5: Fix steering rules cleanup

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix steering rules cleanup vport's mc, uc and multicast rules are not deleted in teardown path when EEH happens. Since the vport's promisc settingsuc, mc and all in firmware are reset after EEH, mlx5 driver will try to...

New York Increases Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Companies

Another example of a large and influential state doing things the federal government wont: Boards of directors, or other senior committees, are charged with overseeing cybersecurity risk management, and must retain an appropriate level of expertise to understand cyber issues, the rules say...

YouTube launches “global effort” to block ad blockers

The ongoing struggle between YouTube and ad blockers is turning users into the victims. YouTube has gone all out in its fight against the use of add-ons, extensions and programs that prevent it from serving ads to viewers around the world. It started out as just a small experiment, but it looks...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 23, 2023 to October 29, 2023)

Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 102 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 37 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

USN-6454-4: Linux kernel (StarFive) vulnerabilities

Kyle Zeng discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition in IP set operations in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-42756 Alex Birnberg discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Firewalls Inspection Rules Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the internal packet processing of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Firewalls could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handli...

PT-2023-17424 · Snort · Snort

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Snort 3 affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the IP geolocation rules could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to potentially bypass IP address restrictions. This issue exists because the configuration for IP...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Security Vulnerability

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD is a suite of unified software from Cisco that provides next-generation firewall services. A security vulnerability exists in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense that stems from a flaw in the Snort 3 IP geolocation rules. The vulnerability could allow an...

CVE-2023-20267: Improper Access Control

A vulnerability in the IP geolocation rules of Snort 3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to potentially bypass IP address restrictions. This vulnerability exists because the configuration for IP geolocation rules is not parsed properly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability b...

CVE-2023-46604

A flaw was found in Apache ActiveMQ, specifically the OpenWire Module. This flaw may allow a remote malicious user to run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol, causing the broker to instantiate any class on the classpath. This issue happens when...

USN-6454-3: Linux kernel (ARM laptop) vulnerabilities

Kyle Zeng discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition in IP set operations in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-42756 Alex Birnberg discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux...

golang: html/template: improper handling of special tags within script contexts

A flaw was found in Golang. The html/template package did not apply the proper rules for handling occurrences of " contexts. This issue may cause the template parser to improperly consider script contexts to be terminated early, causing actions to be improperly escaped...

Fedora 38 : nats-server (2023-c33188f575)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c33188f575 advisory. Without any authorization rules in the nats-server, users can connect without authentication. Before nats-server 2.2.0, all authentication and authorization...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PackageKit vulnerabilities (USN-4538-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4538-1 advisory. Vaisha Bernard discovered that PackageKit incorrectly handled certain methods. A local attacker could use this issue to learn the...

PYSEC-2023-219

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. A user with a limited-permission editor account for the Wagtail admin can make a direct URL request to the admin view that handles bulk actions on user accounts. While authentication rules prevent the user from making any change...

CVE-2023-45809 Disclosure of user names via admin bulk action views in wagtail

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. A user with a limited-permission editor account for the Wagtail admin can make a direct URL request to the admin view that handles bulk actions on user accounts. While authentication rules prevent the user from making any change...

NATS.io: Adding accounts for just the system account adds auth bypass

Background NATS.io is a high performance open source pub-sub distributed communication technology, built for the cloud, on-premise, IoT, and edge computing. NATS users exist within accounts, and once using accounts, the old authorization block is not applicable. Problem Description Without any...