PT-2021-28964

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux Kernel versions 4.8 through 5.12.6 Description The issue concerns the RDMA/rxe component, where an error is not properly handled when an invalid lkey is supplied, potentially leading to security implications. The actual impact and attack...

PT-2021-28501

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux Kernel versions prior to v5.10.32 Description The issue concerns an unbalanced device enable/disable in suspend/resume, which may have potential security implications. However, the actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been...

Do you know your OpSec?

Open Source Intelligence OSINT is any information in the public domain that an attacker can dig up about you. Because of that it forms the basis of every Red Team engagement, as threat actor scenarios are created using publicly available information. Bearing that in mind it makes sense to review...

Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?

Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because its putting a random power company in -- say -- Ohio -- up against the Russian cybercommand, which isnt a fair fight. When this problem is discussed, people regularly quote the statistic...

MIME sniffing in browsers and the security implications

Whenever a website in opened in a browser, there are many tasks that are being silently performed in the background. One of those tasks is fetching resources such as images, stylesheets and JavaScript from different domains on the internet and then parsing those resources...

Kubernetes: KOPS documentation references domains which were not registered

Summary: While researching the kubernetes documentation, I found that the KOPS project's Route53 configuration references dangling DNS servers. I was able to register 3 / 4 of these domain names. I was also able to verify that some companies have been using this configuration, making them...

Linux 5.3 Insecure Root Path Handling Exploit

Linux versions 5.3 and above appear to have an issue where iouring suffers from insecure handling of the root directory for path lookups. Linux =5.3: iouring: insecure handling of root directory for path lookups When I saw today, I realized that this is not just a small correctness issue, but als...

Huawei Controversy Highlights 5G Security Implications

The controversy over Huawei’s involvement in the 5G telecom gear market ratcheted up a notch this week. U.S. officials said they have evidence that the Chinese equipment giant has had access to backdoors inside mobile carrier networks for more than 10 years. Officials are trying to make the case...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0069-1 Security update for uftpd

This update for uftpd to version 2.11 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-5204: Fixed a buffer overflow in FTP PORT parser boo1160199. - Fixed additional bugs which could have security implications...

Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security...

Lazarus APT Collaborates with Trickbot's Anchor Project

Researchers have found evidence of a link between global crimeware organization Trickbot and North Korean APT group Lazarus, observing direct collaboration via an all-in-one attack framework developed by Trickbot called Anchor Project. The move appears to be the first time an APT group has aligne...

The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

One of the more curious behaviors of Apple's new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user's location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds...

Ruby: Variant of CVE-2013-0269 (Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON)

During my recent keyword argument separation work on rbscanargs in the master branch, I discovered what I now think is a vulnerability. While the CVE-2013-0269 change fixed most usage of JSON.parse, it ended up not fixing KernelJSON. The reason behind this is that internally, in...

This Week in Security News: Magecart Attacks and Is Your Smart TV Spying on You?

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Magecart attacks and the security implications of PSD2. Also, read about how your smart TV might be leaking your data to the lik...

China's AI Strategy and its Security Implications

Gregory C. Allen at the Center for a New American Security has a new report with some interesting analysis and insights into China's AI strategy, commercial, government, and military. There are numerous security -- and national security -- implications...

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Following Major Privacy Glitch

Apple has made Group FaceTime temporarily unavailable following a major flaw discovered on Monday evening. The bug allows anyone with iOS to FaceTime other iOS users and listen in on their private conversations – without the user on other end rejecting or accepting the call. The bug makes use of ...

Hack Allows Escape of Play-with-Docker Containers

Researchers hacked the Docker test platform called Play-with-Docker, allowing them to access data and manipulate any test Docker containers running on the host system. The proof-of-concept hack does not impact production Docker instances, according to CyberArk researchers that developed the...

setup: nologin listed in /etc/shells violates security expectations

Setup in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux added /sbin/nologin and /usr/sbin/nologin to /etc/shells. This violates security assumptions made by pamshells and some daemons which allow access based on a user's shell being listed in /etc/shells. Under some circumstances, users which had their shel...

Node.js: Pull Request #12949 - Security Implications without CVE assignment

Summary: Pull Request 12949 has security implications but it was not assigned a CVE by the Node team. It is being reported by Qualys as a 6.8 severity issue without a CVE. Description: Here is the commit and pull request - https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/010f864426...

curl: Invalid URL parsing with '#'

curl before version 7.51.0 doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a '' character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use an URL parser that follows the RFC t...