PHP PHP_INI_SYSTEM Ineffective Controls Vulnerability

Security controls configured via php.ini directives at the PHPINISYSTEM level are ineffective as they could be bypassed by malicious scripts via writing their own process memory on the Linux platform. Proof of concept code included. "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is...

PHP PHP_INI_SYSTEM Ineffective Controls

"PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development." PHP has deployed several features over the years that are prone to incorrect architectural decisions safe mode https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php or openbasedir...

Sharing Threat Intelligence: Time for an Overhaul

Most organizations don’t really have a good way of sharing threat-related data outside of their own industry verticals. Sure, there are Information Sharing and Analysis Centers ISACs; i.e. FS-ISACs for the financial-services industry. But the information still tends to stay in industry-specific...

Recent MuddyWater-associated BlackWater campaign shows signs of new anti-detection techniques

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, and Kendall McKay Executive summary Cisco Talos assesses with moderate confidence that a campaign we recently discovered called "BlackWater" is associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater. Newly associated samples from April...

Privilege Escalation

Ruby is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. A remote user could supply a specially crafted Arraypack and Stringunpack array to cause the target system to fail to properly check security controls. The B, b, H, and h directives are not properly propagated...

Updates for Microsoft 365 help strengthen data privacy

As data continues to grow exponentially and travel across organizational boundaries, privacy and compliance professionals play an increasingly strategic role within organizations. Several updates—announced today—for Microsoft 365 provide organizations with more control and options to strengthen...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: █████████ - Insecure download cookie generation allows bypass of CAC authentication, access to deleted and locked files

Summary: To download a file, ████ directs users to /██████████/Download.aspx and sets a cookie authenticating the download. The cookie looks like this: pickup=Subject=&PackageID=MTU4NDgzMTU=███ If an attacker can generate this cookie, this allows downloading a file. As it turns out, the generatio...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM® Cloud Private - fluentd

Summary IBM Cloud Private fluentd component is vulnerable to multiple security vulnerabilities Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-16396 DESCRIPTION: Ruby could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly check security controls. By sending a...

VOIPO Database Exposes Millions of Texts, Call Logs

UPDATE An improperly secured database owned by a California voice-over-internet provider left millions of customer call logs, SMS message logs and credentials in plain text open for months for the taking. The database belongs to VOIPO, which provides mobile services for consumers and commercial...

Prototype Override Protection Bypass

qs is vulnerable to prototype override protection bypass. It is possible for an attacker to bypass the protection and overwrite prototype properties and functions by prefixing the name of the parameter with or . Overwriting these properties on the object prototype can impact application logic,...

couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation

Apache CouchDB PMC reports: Database Administrator could achieve privilege escalation to the account that CouchDB runs under, by abusing insufficient validation in the HTTP API, escaping security controls implemented in previous releases...

Linux - Broken uidgid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces

Linux - Broken uidgid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces commit 6397fac4915a "userns: bump idmap limits to 340" increases the number of possible uid/gid mappings that a namespace can have from 5 to 340. This is implemented by switching to a different data structure if the number of mappings excee...

Linux - Broken uid/gid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Linux - Broken uid/gid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces Exploit commit 6397fac4915a "userns: bump idmap limits to 340" increases the number of possible uid/gid mappings that a namespace can have from 5 to 340. This is implemented by switchin...

Linux - Broken uid/gid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces

commit 6397fac4915a "userns: bump idmap limits to 340" increases the number of possible uid/gid mappings that a namespace can have from 5 to 340. This is implemented by switching to a different data structure if the number of mappings exceeds 5: Instead of linear search over an unsorted array of...

Microsoft Windows Latest Servicing Stack Updates-Defense in Depth (KB4093430)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4093430. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescripti...

vulhub

It is an offensive tool for Web Application. The repository contains a collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments, including a web application vulnerable to various attacks. The tool is designed to help developers and security researchers test and demonstrate the effectiveness of web...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP tmsh vulnerability (K01067037)

When BIG-IP is licensed for Appliance mode, Admin and Resource administrator roles can by-pass BIG-IP Appliance mode restrictions to overwrite critical system files. CVE-2018-15321 Attackers with ahigh-privilege level can overwrite critical system files, which in turnbypasses security controls...

Calif. Law Takes Aim at Weak IoT Passwords

In a first of its kind law, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans the use of default “admin” passwords on internet-connected devices sold in the state and requires manufacturers use strong passwords instead. California has been taking aggressive legislative action in 2018 to...

Pumping the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence

While the push-pull between defenders and attackers using artificial intelligence continues, there’s another security dimension to machine intelligence that should be of concern. Just as the rise of IoT devices has created an inadvertent new threat surface ripe for introducing vulnerabilities, so...

How's that Security Back Door Doing? (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post I wrote about how recursive DNS rDNS is an attack surface that many enterprises don't currently protect. Bad actors are exploiting that fact and developing advanced targeted threats that use DNS to bypass conventional security tools such as firewalls, secure we...