Apache Struts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Cisco Products: August 2018

A vulnerability in Apache Struts could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software insufficiently validates user-supplied input, allowing the use of results with no namespace value and the use of...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Sony IPELA E Series Camera

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis and Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos. Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities discovered with the Sony IPELA E Series Network Camera. Sony IPELA Cameras are network-facing cameras used for monitoring and surveillance...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Adobe Acrobat DC Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilties

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Talos is releasing details of new vulnerabilities within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and most feature-rich PDF reader. It has a big user base, is usually a default PDF reader on systems and...

Vulnerability Spotlight: VMWare Workstation DoS Vulnerability

Today, Talos is disclosing a vulnerability in VMWare Workstation that could result in Denial of Service. VMWare Workstation is a widely used virtualization platform designed to run alongside a normal operating system, allowing users to use both virtualized and physical systems concurrently...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Natus NeuroWorks Multiple Vulnerabilites

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis from Talos Overview In April 2018, Talos published 5 vulnerabilities in Natus NeuroWorks software. We have also identified 3 additional vulnerabilities. This software is used in the Natus Xltek EEG medical products from Natus Medical Inc. The vulnerabl...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Hyland Perceptive Document Filters Multiple Vulnerabilites

Vulnerabilities discovered by Marcin 'Icewall' Noga from Talos Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Hyland Perceptive Document Filters software. This software is a toolkit that allows developers to read and extract metadata from a file. It supports a large set of common file...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Foscam IP Video Camera Firmware Recovery Unsigned Image Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos. Executive Summary The Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera is a network-based camera that is marketed for a variety of uses, including as a home security monitoring device. Talos recently identified 32 vulnerabilities present in these...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Document ID Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerability within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and most feature-rich PDF reader. It has a big user base, is usually a default PDF reader on systems and...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Walt Disney Per-Face Texture Mapping faceInfoSize Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Executive Summary Walt Disney PTEX is an open source software application maintained by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is designed for use in post-production rendering. It allows for the storage of thousands of texture mappings...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Ruby Rails Gem XSS Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities discovered by Zachary Sanchez of Cisco ASIG Overview Talos has discovered two XSS vulnerabilities in Ruby Rails Gems. Rails is a Ruby framework designed to create web services or web pages. Ruby Gems is a package manager for distributing software packages as 'gems'. The two XSS...

Vulnerability Spotlight: VMWare VNC Vulnerabilities

Today, Talos is disclosing a pair of vulnerabilities in the VNC implementation used in VMWare's products that could result in code execution. VMWare implements VNC for its remote management, remote access, and automation purposes in VMWare products including Workstation, Player, and ESXi which...

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0393 / CVE-2017-2886 - ACDSee Ultimate 10 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vulnerability discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos. Overview Talos has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the ACDSee Ultimate 10 application from ACD Systems International Inc. Exploiting this vulnerabilities can potentially allow an attacker to gain full control over the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: YAML Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ansible Vault and Tablib

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis of Talos.Talos is disclosing the presences of remote code execution vulnerabilities in the processing of Yet Another Markup Language YAML content in Ansible Vault and Tablib. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities through supplying malicious YAML...

Vulnerability Spotlight: LibOFX Tag Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Cory Duplantis of TalosUpdate 9/20/2017: A patch is now available to fix this issue.OverviewLibOFX is an open source implementation of OFX Open Financial Exchange an open format used by financial institutions to share financial data with clients. As an...

Apache Struts 2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Cisco Products: September 2017

On September 7, 2017, the Apache Software Foundation released a security bulletin that disclosed a vulnerability in the Freemarker tag functionality of the Apache Struts 2 package. The vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. T...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Code Execution Vulnerability in LabVIEW

Vulnerability discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos.Update: 9/1/17 - National Instruments has published the following advisoryOverviewLabVIEW is a system design and development platform released by National Instruments. The software is widely used to create applications for data acquisition...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters Code Execution Bugs

OverviewTalos is disclosing a pair of code execution vulnerabilities in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters. Perceptive Document Filters are a series of libraries that are used to parse massive amounts of different types of file formats for multiple purposes. Talos has previously discussed in...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Reader DC Parser Confusion

Parser vulnerabilities in common software packages such as Adobe Acrobat Reader pose a significant security risk to large portions of the internet. The fact that these software packages typically have a large footprints often gives attackers a broad attack surface they can potentially leverage fo...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Kakadu SDK Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic and Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos.Today, Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities that have been identified in the Kakadu JPEG 2000 SDK. The vulnerabilities manifest in a way that could be exploited if a user opens a specifically crafted JPEG 2000...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Iceni Infix PDF Editor Memory Corruption

Today, Talos is disclosing a vulnerability that has been identified in Iceni Infix PDF Editor that could lead to arbitrary code execution on affected hosts. This vulnerability manifests in a way that could be exploited if a user opens a specifically crafted PDF file that triggers this flaw. Talos...