‘Tough to Forge’ Digital Driver’s Licenses Are—Yep—Easy to Forge

Researchers found a litany of security flaws that allow simple, quick, and cheap forgeries in Australia...

New Zoom Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Victims Just by Sending them a Message

Popular video conferencing service Zoom has resolved as many as four security vulnerabilities, which could be exploited to compromise another user over chat by sending specially crafted Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol XMPP messages and execute malicious code. Tracked from CVE-2022-2278...

The Justice Department Will No Longer Charge Security Researchers with Criminal Hacking

Following a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department will no longer prosecute "good faith" security researchers with cybercrimes: The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged. Good faith security research means accessing a computer solel...

Design/Logic Flaw

The affected ThroughTek P2P products SDKs using versions before 3.1.5, any versions with nossl tag, device firmware not using AuthKey for IOTC conneciton, firmware using AVAPI module without enabling DTLS mechanism, and firmware using P2PTunnel or RDT module do not sufficiently protect data...

TeamPass vulnerable to SQL Injection

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in TeamPass 2.1.24 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 1 id parameter in an actiononquickicon action to item.query.php or the 2 order or 3 direction parameter in an a connectionslogs, b errorslogs or c accesslogs acti...

GHSA-8255-QF34-44MP Sensitive Cookie Without HttpOnly and Secure Flag

Mautic prior to 2.1.1 fails to set flags on session cookies...

GHSA-J5RC-CR5W-VFG6 Moodle Session Fixation vulnerability

Moodle 1.8.x and 1.9.x before 1.9.8 does not enable the "Regenerate session id during login" setting by default, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks...

Two critical security flaws found in Nginx-Ingress controller

Ingress controllers allow users to configure an HTTP load balancer for applications running on Kubernetes. It’s needed to serve those applications to clients outside of the Kubernetes Cluster. It’s also configured with Kubernetes API to deploy objects called Ingress Resources The NGINX Ingress...

ImageMagick Resource Management Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-38157)

ImageMagick is a set of open source image processing software. The software can read, convert or write images in a variety of formats.ImageMagick is vulnerable to security flaws, which attackers exploit by sending specially crafted DICOM image files to cause information leakage and denial of...

Critical TLStorm 2.0 Bugs Affect Widely-Used Aruba and Avaya Network Switches

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed as many as five severe security flaws in the implementation of TLS protocol in several models of Aruba and Avaya network switches that could be abused to gain remote access to enterprise networks and steal valuable information. The findings follow the March...

URL Restriction Bypass

Description The validation of URLs contains flaws that allow bypassing security restrictions that are applied in the security profiles of PlantUML. There are two different flaws through which validation mechanisms can be circumvented. In the examples images are loaded to showcase the bypass...

Bugs in Wyze Cams Could Let Attackers Takeover Devices and Access Video Feeds

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the popular Wyze Cam devices that grant malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and access camera feeds as well as unauthorizedly read the SD cards, the latter of which remained unresolved for nearly three years after the initial discovery...

CISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Connected UPS Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Department of Energy DoE are jointly warning of attacks against internet-connected uninterruptible power supply UPS devices by means of default usernames and passwords. "Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS...

USN-5348-1: Smarty vulnerabilities

David Gnedt and Thomas Konrad discovered that Smarty was incorrectly sanitizing the paths present in the templates. An attacker could possibly use this use to read arbitrary files when controlling the executed template. CVE-2018-13982 It was discovered that Smarty was incorrectly sanitizing the...

Multiple security vulnerabilities in Adobe After Effects and Illustrator

THREAT LEVEL: Green. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Adobe addressed 5 security flaws in Illustrator and After Effects. According to Adobe, none of the vulnerabilities have been exploited so far. Successful exploitation of any of the five vulnerabilities listed below could all...

Weekly Threat Digest: 28 February – 6 March 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 381 19 3 5 22 The first week of March 2022 witnessed the discovery of 381 vulnerabilities out of which 19 garnered the attention of...

Thousands of GitLab instances impacted by multiple security flaws

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered by researchers in GitLab, an open-source DevOps software. Some of these flaws could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to retrieve all information linked to GitLab...

CISA Compiles Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools for Network Defenders

CISA has compiled and published a list of free cybersecurity services and tools to help organizations reduce cybersecurity risk and strengthen resiliency. This non-exhaustive living repository includes services provided by CISA, widely used open source tools, and free tools and services offered b...

Multiple security vulnerabilities identified in Adobe

THREAT LEVEL: Green. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Adobe addressed 17 security flaws in Premiere Rush, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Creative Cloud Desktop. According to Adobe, none of the vulnerabilities have been exploited so far. Successful exploitation of...

On the Irish Health Services Executive Hack

A detailed report of the 2021 ransomware attack against Ireland’s Health Services Executive lists some really bad security practices: The report notes that: The HSE did not have a Chief Information Security Officer CISO or a “single responsible owner for cybersecurity at either senior executive o...