Masking Vulnerability Scan reports

Continuing the series of posts about Kenna "Analyzing Vulnerability Scan data", "Connectors and REST API" and similar services. Is it actually safe to send your vulnerability data to some external cloud service for analysis? Leakage of such information can potentially cause great damage to your...

openstack-aodh: Aodh can be used to launder Keystone trusts

A verification flaw was found in openstack-aodh. As part of an HTTP alarm action, a user could pass in a trust ID. However, the trust could be from anyone because it was not verified. Because the trust was then used by openstack-aodh to obtain a keystone token for the alarm action, a malicious us...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-aodh security update

An update for openstack-aodh is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 Ocata. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

glibc - 'LD_AUDIT' Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/local/linux' require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule 'glibc LDAUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q...

Python Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Python is an open source, object-oriented programming language from the Python Software Foundation. The language is extensible, supports modules and packages, and supports multiple platforms. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Python version 2.7.14. An attacker could exploit this...

CVE-2018-1000030

Python 2.7.14 is vulnerable to a Heap-Buffer-Overflow as well as a Heap-Use-After-Free. Python versions prior to 2.7.14 may also be vulnerable and it appears that Python 2.7.17 and prior may also be vulnerable however this has not been confirmed. The vulnerability lies when multiply threads are...

CVE-2018-1000030

Removed by vendor...

PSF-2018-2 Python 2.7 readahead is not thread safe

Python 2.7.14 is vulnerable to a Heap-Buffer-Overflow as well as a Heap-Use-After-Free. Python versions prior to 2.7.14 may also be vulnerable and it appears that Python 2.7.17 and prior may also be vulnerable however this has not been confirmed. The vulnerability lies when multiply threads are...

February 6, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Coffee” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 6, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Threat Hunting and...

CVE-2018-1000030

Python 2.7.14 is vulnerable to a Heap-Buffer-Overflow as well as a Heap-Use-After-Free. Python versions prior to 2.7.14 may also be vulnerable and it appears that Python 2.7.17 and prior may also be vulnerable however this has not been confirmed. The vulnerability lies when multiply threads are...

The days of VPNs are numbered

We have been talking about how it's time to re-evaluate giving full access to the corporate network for some time. In fact, Akamai's Sr. Director of Enterprise Security & Infrastructure Engineering talks about one of his core goals--No VPN--here. Over the last few days, I am sure many teams who a...

IMPORTANT: Web blocking / RAM usage announcement

On January 27, we published a protection update that caused connection issues for many of our customers. As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused a crash. We have triaged this issue and pushed a protection update that resolves it. For...

Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day DPD, an annual international effort to promote the importance of data privacy. DPD is sponsored in the United States by the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA with the theme, Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data, and Enabling Trust. The NCSA Stay Safe Online...

nautilus: Insufficient validation of trust of .desktop files with execute permission

An untrusted .desktop file with executable permission set could choose its displayed name and icon, and execute commands without warning when opened by the user. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into opening a .desktop file disguised as a document, such as a PDF, and execute...

RHEL 7 : nautilus (RHSA-2018:0223)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0223 advisory. Nautilus is the file manager and graphical shell for the GNOME desktop. Security Fixes: An untrusted .desktop file with executable permission set cou...

Gone Phishing For The Holidays

Written by Or Katz and Amiram Cohen Overview: While our team, Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector Security Research Team, monitored internet traffic throughout the 2017 holiday season, we spotted a wide-spread phishing campaign targeting users through an advertising tactic. During the six week...

Fedora 27 : ca-certificates (2017-fba4c155be)

This is a cumulative update to the Mozilla CA certificates trust list version 2.20, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.34.1. It also includes the changes that were previously released as version 2.18 as part of NSS 3.34. For additional details, please refer to the release notes of...

Disabling automatic password change for nonpersistent desktops

Computers use their machine account password for authentication with Active Directory. By default, computers are configured to change their machine account passwords every 30 days. This setting affects nonpersistent desktops in the following ways: 1. When you deploy the nonpersistent desktop, the...

Ubiquiti Inc.: Reflected XSS

Due to the lack of sanitisation in the commend area, with a especially crafted message, is possible to execute a XSS with the "preview" function. If a draft is save, is possible to exploit this bug using as and stored-XSS. The "New Discussion" page on the Spanish and Portuguese forums have a...

CVE-2017-1672

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 2.6 and 2.7 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 133639...