Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 2

The first part of this series introduced Semmle QL, and how the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC are using it to investigate variants of vulnerabilities reported to us. This post discusses an example of how we’ve been using it proactively, covering a security audit of an Azure firmware...

AutoRDPwn v4.8 - The Shadow Attack Framework

AutoRDPwn is a script created in Powershell and designed to automate the Shadow attack on Microsoft Windows computers. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to view his victim's desktop without his consent, and even control it on request. For its correct operation, it is necessary to comply...

Kibana ESA-2019-01, ESA-2019-02, ESA-2019-03

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 have the following vulnerabilities: - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users. CVE-2019-7608 - An arbitrary code execution flaw...

WordPress WP Security Audit Log <=3.3.1.1 - Authenticated Option Update vulnerability (Fremius Library security issue)

Authenticated Option Update vulnerability Fremius Library security issue found in WordPress WP Security Audit Log versions =3.3.1.1. Solution Update the WordPress WP Security Audit Log to the latest available version at least 3.3.1.2...

Make Sure Your Security Is Ready for the President’s Day Shopping Spree

By Tony Bradley The following article was originally written to provide e-retailers with tip and tricks for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. However, with the biggest President’s day spring sales approaching, the best practices and how-to remain the same. More about e-commerce security...

Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps

Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...

About the security content of iOS 12.1.4 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. Apple security documents reference...

DHS Orders U.S. Federal Agencies to Audit DNS Security for Their Domains

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS has today issued an "emergency directive" to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or other agency-managed domains, within next 10 business days. The emergency security alert came in the wake ...

Information Disclosure

jboss-as-web is vulnerable to information disclosure attacks. The vulnerability exists as the security audit functionality in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP 6.x before 6.2.1 logs request parameters in plaintext, which might allow local users to obtain passwords by reading the l...

CVE-2018-2497

SAP HANA audit logs fail to record SELECT events when they appear as part of CREATE TABLE AS SELECT in versions 1.0 and 2.0. This could leave such statements partially unlogged, limiting audit visibility for these CREATE TABLE AS SELECT constructs. The provided documents do not include a patch/r...

Code injection

The security audit log of SAP HANA, versions 1.0 and 2.0, does not log SELECT events if these events are part of a statement with the syntax CREATE TABLE AS SELECT...

CVE-2018-2497

The security audit log of SAP HANA, versions 1.0 and 2.0, does not log SELECT events if these events are part of a statement with the syntax CREATE TABLE AS SELECT...

Private data of more than 82 million US citizens left exposed

By Uzair Amir Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob Diachenko, a HackenProof security researcher informing users in the US that around 73 gigabytes of data is identified in a “regular security audit” of publicly...

SUSE-RU-2018:3638-1 Recommended update for ardana-ansible

This update for ardana-ansible fixes the following issues: ardana-ansible: - Initial checkin of info capture tool - Rename dayzero-site.yml bsc1111886 - Switch to non-legacy media layout by default. - Add Keystone Fernet master node monitoring. bsc1097241 - Add restart verb for maintenance update...

Bashark - Bash Post Exploitation Toolkit

Bashark aids pentesters and security researchers during the post-exploitation phase of security audits. Usage To launch Bashark on compromised host, simply source the bashark.sh script from terminal: $ source bashark.sh Then type help to see Bashark's help menu Features Single Bash script...

SecFox Security Audit System V5 suffers from Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

SecFox Security Audit System V5 is a security audit system. SecFox Security Audit System V5 suffers from an arbitrary file download vulnerability. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to download arbitrary files...

AutoRDPwn - The Shadow Attack Framework

AutoRDPwn is a script created in Powershell and designed to automate the Shadow attack on Microsoft Windows computers. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to view his victim's desktop without his consent, and even control it on request. For its correct operation, it is necessary to comply...

PTC ThingWorx Password Disclosure / Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

PTC ThingWorx suffers from cross site scripting and password disclosure vulnerabilities. Versions affected include 6.5 through 7.4, 8.0.x, 8.1.x, and 8.2.x. ======================================================================= title: Password disclosure vulnerability & XSS product: PTC ThingWor...

AWS Slurp Github Takeover

Slurp is a tool used by information security professionals to enumerate AWS S3 buckets. Slurp takes a domain name example.com or wordlist as input and cycles through likely S3 bucket names example.s3.amazonaws.com looking for any world-read/writeable buckets. S3 buckets are a great find for...

Microsoft Windows: Audit Group Membership

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: wingroupmembership.nasl 11068 2018-08-21 11:51:41Z emoss $ Check value for Audit Group Membership Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...