A week in security (April 15 – April 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Law enforcement reels in phishing-as-a-service whopper Mental health company Cerebral failed to protect sensitive personal data, must pay $7 million Cannabis investment scam JuicyFields ends in 9 arrests Should you share your location with your partner? Giant Tiger...

Should you share your location with your partner?

Every relationship has its disagreements. Who takes out the trash and washes the dishes? Who plans the meals and writes out the grocery list? And when is it okay to start tracking one another’s location? Location sharing is becoming the norm between romantic partners—50% of people valued location...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26828

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix underflow in parseserverinterfaces In this loop, we step through the buffer and after each item we check if the sizeleft is greater than the minimum size we need. However, the problem is that "bytesleft" is type ssizet...

CVE-2024-2118

CVE-2024-2118 affects the WordPress plugin Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons (Ultimate Social Media Icons) up to version 2.8.9. The issue is due to insufficient sanitization/escaping of certain settings, enabling Stored XSS by high-privilege users (e.g., admins), including scenari...

WordPress Plugin Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are products of the WordPress Foundation, a blogging platform developed in the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on servers running PHP and MySQL. WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability exists in the WordPress Plugi...

FTC Fines Mental Health Startup Cerebral $7 Million for Major Privacy Violations

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC has ordered mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal medical data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users' sensitive personal health information and other data to...

Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Huawei HarmonyOS is an operating system from Huawei, a Chinese company. It provides a full-scenario distributed operating system based on a microkernel.Huawei EMUI is a user interface developed by Huawei based on the Android operating system. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in Huawei...

kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's net/sched: schhfsc HFSC qdisc traffic control component that can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If a class with a link-sharing curve, for example, with the HFSCFSC flag set, has a parent without a link-sharing curve, then...

CVE-2024-31454

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which is designed for uploading files, allows an attacker who received the id of a file distribution to change the files that are in this distribution. The...

CVE-2024-31453

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which allows users to create a path for uploading a file in a file distribution, allows an attacker to add arbitrary files to the distribution. The vulnerability...

CVE-2024-31454

PsiTransfer (open-source file sharing) prior to version 2.2.0 is vulnerable due to unrestricted upload-endpoint access, where an attacker who obtains a file distribution id can replace files within that distribution. This leads to integrity violations at the level of individual files, as exposed ...

CVE-2024-31454 PsiTransfer file integrity violation vulnerability

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which is designed for uploading files, allows an attacker who received the id of a file distribution to change the files that are in this distribution. The...

CVE-2024-31454 PsiTransfer file integrity violation vulnerability

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which is designed for uploading files, allows an attacker who received the id of a file distribution to change the files that are in this distribution. The...

CVE-2024-31453 PsiTransfer vulnerable to violation of the integrity of file distribution

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which allows users to create a path for uploading a file in a file distribution, allows an attacker to add arbitrary files to the distribution. The vulnerability...

CVE-2024-31453 PsiTransfer vulnerable to violation of the integrity of file distribution

PsiTransfer is an open source, self-hosted file sharing solution. Prior to version 2.2.0, the absence of restrictions on the endpoint, which allows users to create a path for uploading a file in a file distribution, allows an attacker to add arbitrary files to the distribution. The vulnerability...

GHSA-9JH5-QF84-X6PR Contao: Possible cookie sharing with external domains while checking protected pages for broken links

Impact If the crawler is set to crawl protected pages, it sends the cookie header to externals URLs. Patches Update to Contao 4.13.40 or 5.3.4. Workarounds Disable crawling protected pages. References https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/session-cookie-disclosure-in-the-crawler For more...

Contao: Possible cookie sharing with external domains while checking protected pages for broken links

Impact If the crawler is set to crawl protected pages, it sends the cookie header to externals URLs. Patches Update to Contao 4.13.40 or 5.3.4. Workarounds Disable crawling protected pages. References https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/session-cookie-disclosure-in-the-crawler For more...

CVE-2024-28235 Contao possible cookie sharing with external domains while checking protected pages for broken links

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.9.0 and prior to versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, when checking for broken links on protected pages, Contao sends the cookie header to external urls as well, the passed options for the http client are used for all requests. Cont...

CVE-2024-28235 Contao possible cookie sharing with external domains while checking protected pages for broken links

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.9.0 and prior to versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, when checking for broken links on protected pages, Contao sends the cookie header to external urls as well, the passed options for the http client are used for all requests. Cont...

Microsoft Windows Internet Connection Sharing 安全漏洞

Microsoft Windows is a suite of operating systems for use on personal devices from Microsoft Corporation USA. A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows Internet Connection Sharing ICS. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability could remotely execute code. The following products and...