Six Malicious Linux Shell Scripts Used to Evade Defenses and How to Stop Them

Siddartha Sharma and Adhokshaj Mishra Evasive techniques used by attackers, date back to the earlier days, when base64 and other common encoding schemes were used. Today, attackers are adopting new Linux shell script tactics and techniques to disable firewalls, monitoring agents and modifying...

FortiClientMac - Privilege escalation by abusing a Symlink following vulnerability

A UNIX symbolic link Symlink Following CWE-61 vulnerability in FortiClient for MacOS may allow a local and unprivileged user to overwrite privileged shell scripts executed during the installation phase via escalating their privileges to root...

cve_manager_VS - A Collection Of Python Apps And Shell Scripts To Email An Xlsx Spreadsheet Of New Vulnerabilities In The NIST CVE Database And Their Associated Products On A Daily Schedule

A collection of python apps and shell scripts to email an xlsx spreadsheet of new vulnerabilities in the NIST CVE database and their associated products on a daily schedule. The spreadsheet can then be manually interpreted for risk to your specific organization. Based off of an opensource product...

Intelspy - Perform Automated Network Reconnaissance Scans

Perform automated network reconnaissance scans to gather network intelligence. IntelSpy is a multi-threaded network intelligence spy tool which performs automated enumeration of network services. It performs live hosts detection scans, port scans, services enumeration scans, web content scans,...

Hackers Mount Zero-Day Attacks on Sophos Firewalls

Attackers have been targeting the Sophos XG Firewall both physical and virtual versions using a zero-day exploit, according to the security firm – with the ultimate goal of dropping the Asnarok malware on vulnerable appliances. Sophos said in a posting updated on Monday that the bug in question i...

CVE-2019-9859

Vesta Control Panel VestaCP 0.9.7 through 0.9.8-23 is vulnerable to an authenticated command execution that can result in remote root access on the server. The platform works with PHP as the frontend language and uses shell scripts to execute system actions. PHP executes shell script through the...

CVE-2019-9859

Vesta Control Panel VestaCP 0.9.7 through 0.9.8-23 is vulnerable to an authenticated command execution that can result in remote root access on the server. The platform works with PHP as the frontend language and uses shell scripts to execute system actions. PHP executes shell script through the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vesta Control Panel VestaCP 0.9.7 through 0.9.8-23 is vulnerable to an authenticated command execution that can result in remote root access on the server. The platform works with PHP as the frontend language and uses shell scripts to execute system actions. PHP executes shell script through the...

CVE-2019-9859

Vesta Control Panel VestaCP 0.9.7 through 0.9.8-23 is vulnerable to an authenticated command execution that can result in remote root access on the server. The platform works with PHP as the frontend language and uses shell scripts to execute system actions. PHP executes shell script through the...

No man’s land: How a Magecart group is running a web skimming operation from a war zone

Our Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring the activities of a number of threat actors involved in the theft of credit card data. Often referred to under the Magecart moniker, these groups use simple pieces of JavaScript code skimmers typically injected into compromised e-commerce websites ...

Privilege escalation

Kromtech MacKeeper 3.20.4 suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability through its com.mackeeper.AdwareAnalyzer.AdwareAnalyzerPrivilegedHelper component. The AdwareAnalzyerPrivilegedHelper tool implements an XPC service that allows an unprivileged application to connect and execute shel...

CVE-2018-10171

Kromtech MacKeeper 3.20.4 suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability through its com.mackeeper.AdwareAnalyzer.AdwareAnalyzerPrivilegedHelper component. The AdwareAnalzyerPrivilegedHelper tool implements an XPC service that allows an unprivileged application to connect and execute shel...

CVE-2018-10171

Kromtech MacKeeper 3.20.4 suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability through its com.mackeeper.AdwareAnalyzer.AdwareAnalyzerPrivilegedHelper component. The AdwareAnalzyerPrivilegedHelper tool implements an XPC service that allows an unprivileged application to connect and execute shel...

Memory corruption vulnerability in the processing of sh*** files by Hollis HT8000 (CNVD-2019-15924)

HOLLIS Group is a professional automation company integrating R&D, production, sales and technical service. Memory corruption vulnerability exists in the handling of sh files by HELISE HT8000. An attacker can trick a user who has installed HT8000 to open a malicious sh file, which in turn trigger...

Code injection

Jamf Self Service 10.9.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain a root shell by leveraging the "publish Bash shell scripts" feature to insert "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal" into the TCP data stream...

CVE-2019-9146

Jamf Self Service 10.9.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain a root shell by leveraging the "publish Bash shell scripts" feature to insert "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal" into the TCP data stream...

CVE-2019-9146

Jamf Self Service 10.9.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain a root shell by leveraging the "publish Bash shell scripts" feature to insert "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal" into the TCP data stream...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: beep-1.3-26.fc29

Beep allows the user to control the PC speaker with precision, allowing different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run quite happily on the command line, its intended place of residence is within shell/Perl scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs. Of...

Rocke: The Champion of Monero Miners

This post was authored by David Liebenberg. Summary Cryptocurrency miners are becoming an increasingly significant part of the threat landscape. These malicious miners steal CPU cycles from compromised devices to mine cryptocurrencies and bring in income for the threat actor. In this post, we loo...

CleanMyMac3 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits CleanMyMac3 installs a rooted helper com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent, and its XPC interface does not validate anything. In CMPrivilegedOperationprotocol, there are actually more than one way to execute privileged code. The most straight forward o...