A week in security (July 16 – July 22)

Last week on Labs, we looked at a Magniber expansion, explored open source vulnerabilities, and checked out the boons and drawbacks of smart assistants. We also continued our ad blocking article extravaganza, gave a whistlestop tour of third-party problems, and published our Q2 Cybercrime tactics...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

Use-After-free Vulnerability

libcurl.so is vulnerable to use after-free vulnerability. The attack is possible when cookies are shared among many easy handles simultaneously used in different threads...

Jirafeau Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-13352)

Jirafeau is a file sharing website system. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the delete file feature of the admin panel in versions of Jirafeau prior to 3.4.1. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to force an administrator to delete files uploaded by other users via...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

Design/Logic Flaw

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

Skype for Business and Lync Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Skype for Business or Lync do not properly parse UNC path links shared via messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute arbitrary commands in the context of the logged-in user. The security feature bypass by...

WordPad Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft WordPad improperly handles embedded OLE objects. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could bypass content blocking. In a file-sharing attack scenario, an attacker could provide a specially crafted document file...

Improper access control

Quick Emulator Qemu built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System 9pfs support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system...

CVE-2017-7471

Quick Emulator Qemu built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System 9pfs support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system...

CVE-2017-7471

Quick Emulator Qemu built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System 9pfs support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system...

CIS Releases 2017 Year in Review

The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2017 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC, an NCCIC partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial...

Information Disclosure

ASP.NET Core is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker is able to bypass cross-origin resource sharing configurations to retrieve content from a web application...

ADB Broadband Gateways Routers - Local Root Jailbreak

ADB Broadband Gateways Routers - Local Root Jailbreak SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Local root jailbreak via network file sharing flaw product: All ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers based on Epicentro...

ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers - Local Root Jailbreak Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category local exploits title: Local root jailbreak via network file sharing flaw product: All ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers based on Epicentro platform vulnerable version: Hardware: ADB P.RG AV4202N, DV2210, VV2220, VV5522, etc. fixed version: see "Solution"...

ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers - Local Root Jailbreak

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Local root jailbreak via network file sharing flaw product: All ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers based on Epicentro platform vulnerable version: Hardware: ADB P.RG AV4202...

ADB Local Root Jailbreak

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Local root jailbreak via network file sharing flaw product: All ADB Broadband Gateways / Routers based on Epicentro platform vulnerable version: Hardware: ADB P.RG AV4202...

Samsung Investigates Claims of Spontaneous Texting of Images to Contacts

Samsung says it isn’t seeing any software or hardware issues after a slew of Samsung phone users reported that their devices are randomly sending camera roll photos to their contacts without permission. Users took to Reddit and Samsung’s official forums over the past week to complain that their...