Drupal 8.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (SA-CORE-2019-005) - Linux

Drupal is prone to multiple vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Hiro: Blockstack Browser For Mac leaks "Core API Password" to 3rd parties

Hi Blockstack! 😃 I noticed that BlockStack Browser for Mac version is leaking the CoreAPIPassword via Referer Header to several websites: appco.imgix.net a third party site! F471236 api.app.co seems to have some blockstack affiliation? F471235 browser-api.blockstack.org F471237 Steps to Reproduce...

Node.js third-party modules: [https-proxy-agent] Socket returned without TLS upgrade on non-200 CONNECT response, allowing request data to be sent over unencrypted connection

I would like to report a man-in-the-middle vulnerability in https-proxy-agent. It allows an attacker with access to the network firewall or targeted proxy server to obtain secrets e.g. a HTTP basic auth header from the client trying to send HTTPS traffic via HTTP proxy. Module module name:...

Drupal core - Moderately critical - Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2019-005

This security release fixes third-party dependencies included in or required by Drupal core. CVE-2019-10909: Escape validation messages in the PHP templating engine. From that advisory: Validation messages were not escaped when using the form theme of the PHP templating engine which, when...

Wipro Confirms Hack and Supply Chain Attacks on Customers

IT systems consulting behemoth Wipro Ltd. has confirmed that its network was hacked and used for mounting attacks on its customers. After multiple unnamed sources independently told Brian Krebs that a “multi-month intrusion” occurred and is likely the work of an advanced persistent threat APT act...

CVE-2019-0231

A cryptographic protocol integrity flaw was discovered in Apache Mina. The closure of a TLS session would not always result in closure of the socket, allowing the conversation to continue in clear text. This could undermine the confidentiality of a connection and potentially disclose sensitive...

Who is managing the security of medical management apps?

One truth that is consistent across every sector—be it technology or education—is that software is vulnerable, which means that any device running software applications is also at risk. While virtually any application-running device could be compromised by an attacker, vulnerabilities in medical...

Siemens SCALANCE and SIMATIC libcurl (Update B)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SCALANCE and SIMATIC Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Read 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory update titled ICSA-21-068-10 Siemens SCALANCE and...

Podcast: Chris Vickery on UpGuard's Discovery of Millions of Facebook Records

Data collection and security was thrust to the forefront this week after researchers with UpGuard disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook records were found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The two publicly-exposed datasets included one controlled by Mexican media company...

Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records

A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers...

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers

It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...

WordPress iOS App Bug Leaked Secret Access Tokens to Third-Party Sites

If you have a "private" blog with WordPress.com and are using its official iOS app to create or edit posts and pages, the secret authentication token for your admin account might have accidentally been leaked to third-party websites. WordPress has recently patched a severe vulnerability in its iO...

WordPress iOS App Bug Leaked Secret Access Tokens to Third-Party Sites

If you have a "private" blog with WordPress.com and are using its official iOS app to create or edit posts and pages, the secret authentication token for your admin account might have accidentally been leaked to third-party websites. WordPress has recently patched a severe vulnerability in its iO...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python3-3.7.2-8.fc30

Python is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted program ming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability. It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries. The python3 package provides the "python3" executable: the...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Plugin vulnerabilities exploited in traffic monetization schemes

In their Website Hack Trend Report, web security company Sucuri noted that WordPress infections rose to 90 percent in 2018. One aspect of Content Management System CMS infections that is sometimes overlooked is that attackers not only go after the CMSes themselves—WordPress, Drupal, etc.—but also...

From alert to driver vulnerability: Microsoft Defender ATP investigation unearths privilege escalation flaw

With Microsoft continuously improving kernel mitigations and raising the bar for exploiting native kernel components, third-party kernel drivers are becoming a more appealing target for attackers and an important area of research for security analysts. A vulnerability in a signed third-party driv...

CVE-2019-5414

If an attacker can control the port, which in itself is a very sensitive value, they can inject arbitrary OS commands due to the usage of the exec function in a third-party module kill-port 1.3.2...

Design/Logic Flaw

If an attacker can control the port, which in itself is a very sensitive value, they can inject arbitrary OS commands due to the usage of the exec function in a third-party module kill-port 1.3.2...

Zipcar Disruption

This isn't a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company's vehicles and its reservation software." That didn't just mean people couldn't get ca...