This Week in Security News: Botnets and Breaches

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, North Korean hackers overtook Adobe, Trend Micro Safety Solutions discovered new a botnet, and the threat of third-party cyber breaches made...

Node.js third-party modules: [localhost-now] Path Traversal allows to read content of arbitrary file

Hi Guys, There is Path Traversal in localhost-now module. It allows to read content of arbitrary files on the remote server. Module localhost-now This is a general file server made by nodejs. It will be easy for you to access the files on the server through the browser...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (merge-recursive)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the merge-recursive library. Module: merge-recursive Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (deep-extend)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the deep-extend library. Module: deep-extend Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part of...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (mixin-deep)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the mixin-deep library. Module: mixin-deep Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modify the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part of the...

Node.js third-party modules: [crud-file-server] Stored XSS in filenames when directory index is served by crud-file-server

Hi Guys, crud-file-server allows to embed HTML in file names, which in certain conditions might lead to execute malicious JavaScript. Module crud-file-server This package exposes a directory and its children to create, read, update, and delete operations over http...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (merge-deep)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the merge-deep library. Module: merge-deep Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part of th...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (assign-deep)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the assign-deep library. Module: assign-deep Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part of...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (merge-objects)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the merge-objects library. Module: merge-object Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part ...

Node.js third-party modules: [crud-file-server] Path Traversal allows to read arbitrary file from the server

Hi Guys, There is Path Traversal vulnerability in crud-file-server module, which allows to read arbitrary file from the remote server. Module crud-file-server This package exposes a directory and its children to create, read, update, and delete operations over http...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (defaults-deep)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the defaults-deep library. Module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/defaults-deep Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modifying the prototype of "Object"...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype pollution attack (lodash)

As discussed in 309391, here's the separate report for each of the library. This one is the information for the lodash library. Module: lodash Summary: Utilities function in all the listed modules can be tricked into modify the prototype of "Object" when the attacker control part of the structure...

Node.js third-party modules: [glance] Stored XSS via file name allows to run arbitrary JavaScript when directory listing is displayed in browser

Hi Guys, There is a Stored XSS vulnerability in glance module. File name, which contains malicious HTML eg. embedded iframe element or javascript: pseudoprotocol handler in element allows to execute JavaScript code against any user who opens directory listing contains such crafted file name. Modu...

Node.js third-party modules: [glance] Path Traversal in glance static file server allows to read content of arbitrary file

Hi Guys, There is Path Traversal vulnerability in glance module. This issue allows to read arbitrary files from the server, where glance is installed. Module glance a quick disposable http server for static files https://www.npmjs.com/package/glance Stats 33 downloads in the last day 34 downloads...

Node.js third-party modules: [simple-server] HTML with iframe element can be used as filename, which might lead to load and execute malicious JavaScript

Hi Guys, simple-server allows to embed HTML in file names, which in certain conditions might lead to execute malicious JavaScript. This is caused by outdated version of connect framework. Module: Simple Server allows you to easily get a node.js static file server up and running anywhere anytime...

Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-02233)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in previous versions of Mozilla Firefox 58. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to mislead users into sending sensitive information to third-party...

Skype, Slack and Other Popular Windows Apps Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug

UPDATE Hundreds of software applications built using the developer framework called Electron may be vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw, according to developers of the framework. Impacted are dozens of popular Windows applications such as Microsoft’s Skype for Windows and Slack. Earlier th...

CVE-2017-9780

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5106

Style editor traffic in the Developer Tools can be routed through a service worker hosted on a third party website if a user selects error links when these tools are open. This can allow style editor information used within Developer Tools to leak cross-origin. This vulnerability affects Firefox ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5115

If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded foreground page. Although the prompt contains the real domain making the request, this can result in user confusion about the originating site of the...