Researchers discover vulnerabilities in smart assistants’ voice commands

Virtual personal assistants VPA, also known as smart assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant, are in the spotlight for vulnerabilities to attack. Take, for example, that incident about an Oregon couple’s Echo smart speaker inadvertently recording their conversation and sending it to...

SearchBlox 8.6.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

SearchBlox 8.6.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Exploit Title: CSRF Privilege Escalation Creation of an administrator account on SearchBlox 8.6.6 Exploit Author: Canberk BOLAT, Ahmet GÜREL Software Link: https://www.searchblox.com/ Version: = SearchBlox Version 8.6.6 Platform: Java Tested on: Windo...

Dolibarr ERP/CRM 7.0.0 - (Authenticated) SQL Injection

CVE-2018-10094 Dolibarr SQL Injection vulnerability Description Dolibarr is an "Open Source ERP & CRM for Business" used by many companies worldwide. It is available through GitHub or as distribution packages e.g .deb package. Threat The application does not handle user input properly and allows...

Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while adjusting layout during SVG animations with text paths. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.8, Thunderbird ESR 52.8, Firefox 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8...

Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while enumerating attributes during SVG animations with clip paths. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.8, Thunderbird ESR 52.8, Firefox 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8...

Privilege escalation

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the configfile function...

Backdoors in D-Link’s backyard

"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." In the case of security research this can be rephrased to: "If you want to make the world safer, start with the smart things in your home." Or, to be more specific, start with your router – the core of any home network as well as an...

CVE-2018-11340

An unrestricted file upload vulnerability in importuser.cgi in ASUSTOR AS6202T ADM 3.1.0.RFQ3 allows attackers to upload supplied data to a specified filename. This can be used to place attacker controlled code on the file system that is then executed...

BBE theme for WordPress HTML editor vulnerability

BBE theme for WordPress is a theme plugin for the WordPress platform. A security vulnerability exists in BBE theme for WordPress versions prior to 1.53. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to launch the HTML editor directly...

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Secure Copy Protocol Server Input Validation Vulnerability

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS is a suite of NVF infrastructure software platforms from the U.S.-based Cisco. The platform enables full lifecycle management of virtualization services through a central coordinator and controller. secure copy protocol SCP server is one of the...

One Year After WannaCry: A Fundamentally Changed Threat Landscape

It’s been one year this week since the ransomware known as WannaCry infected more than 200,000 machines in 150 countries, causing billions of dollars in damages and grinding global business to a halt. The speed and scale of the attack – helped along by leaked National Security Agency hacking tool...

S/MIME Information Disclosure Vulnerability

S/MIME is a certificate implementation for email encryption. A security vulnerability exists in S/MIME. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to obtain a message in plaintext form from an encrypted message...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while adjusting layout during SVG animations with text paths. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.8, Thunderbird ESR 52.8, Firefox 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8...

gdal/gdal_vector_translate_fuzzer: Bad-cast to VSIVirtualHandle from invalid vptr in VSIFWriteL

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5769514363912192 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalvectortranslatefuzzer Fuzz target binary: gdalvectortranslatefuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Bad-cast Crash Address:...

Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, etc. are all products of Microsoft Corporation USA.Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2 is a set of spreadsheet processing software in the Office suite.Office 2016 Click-to-Run C2R is a set of office software suite products. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsof...

CVE-2016-9335

A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability was identified in Red Lion Controls Sixnet-Managed Industrial Switches running firmware Version 5.0.196 and Stride-Managed Ethernet Switches running firmware Version 5.0.190. Vulnerable versions of Stride-Managed Ethernet switches and Sixnet-Managed...

Mediawiki security bypass vulnerability (CNVD-2018-10133)

MediaWiki is a free and free web-based Wiki engine developed and maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation and MediaWiki volunteers, which can be used to deploy in-house knowledge management and content management systems. A security vulnerability exists in Mediawiki versions prior to 1.28.1, prior ...

CVE-2017-9657

The CVE-2017-9657 entry describes an 802.11 WLAN issue in Philips IntelliVue MX40 (Version B.06.18) where partial re-association to the central monitor can leave the MX40 in telemetry mode while the central station expects local monitoring, potentially delaying alarms. Root causes cited include I...

CVE-2017-9658

CVE-2017-9658 affects Philips IntelliVue MX40 WLAN monitors (Version B.06.18 and prior) under certain 802.11 network conditions. The root causes are described as improper cleanup on thrown exception (CWE-460) and improper handling of exceptional conditions (CWE-755). Under these conditions, the M...