Patch Tuesday - February 2021

The second Patch Tuesday of 2021 is relatively light on the vulnerability count, with 64 CVEs being addressed across the majority of Microsoft’s product families. Despite that, there’s still plenty to discuss this month. Vulnerability Breakdown by Software Family Family | Vulnerability Count...

SonicWall Zero-Day

Hackers are exploiting a zero-day in SonicWall: In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: "Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat affects the SonicWall SMA 100 series devices. We are working closely with SonicWall to investigate this in more depth." In...

Google Chrome Zero-Day Afflicts Windows, Mac Users

Google is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its V8 open-source web engine that’s being actively exploited by attackers. A patch has been issued in version 88 of Google’s Chrome browser — specifically, version 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update will roll out over the coming...

Update now! Chrome patches zero-day that was exploited in the wild

A Chrome patch has been issued with an advisory stating that the Stable channel has been updated to 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The only noteworthy thing about this update is a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. But that one looks to be...

New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!

Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. The company released 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a fix for a heap buffer overflow flaw CVE-2021-21148 in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine...

New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!

Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. The company released 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a fix for a heap buffer overflow flaw CVE-2021-21148 in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine...

Horner Automation Cscape

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Horner Automation Equipment: Cscape Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow code execution in the context of the current process. 3. TECHNICAL...

CVE-2021-20016

A SQL-Injection vulnerability in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL query to access username password and other session related information. This vulnerability impacts SMA100 build version 10.x. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at February 05, 20...

SonicWall SNWLID-2021-0001 Zero-Day and SolarWinds’ 2021 CVE Trifecta: What You Need to Know

Not content with the beating it laid down in January, 2021 continues to deliver with an unpatched zero-day exposure in some SonicWall appliances and three moderate-to-critical CVEs in SolarWinds software. We dig into the details below. Urgent mitigations required for SonicWall SMA 100 Series...

SonicWall SMA 100 Series 10.x Firmware Zero-Day Vulnerability

A SQL-Injection vulnerability in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL query to access username password and other session related information. This vulnerability impacts SMA100 build version 10.x. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at February 04, 20...

Hackers Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bug in SonicWall SMA 100 Devices

SonicWall on Monday warned of active exploitation attempts against a zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access SMA 100 series devices. The flaw, which affects both physical and virtual SMA 100 10.x devices SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, SMA 500v, came to light after the NCC Group on...

Hackers Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bug in SonicWall SMA 100 Devices

SonicWall on Monday warned of active exploitation attempts against a zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access SMA 100 series devices. The flaw, which affects both physical and virtual SMA 100 10.x devices SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, SMA 500v, came to light after the NCC Group on...

Zero-Day Vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 100 Series Version 10.x Products

CISA is aware of a vulnerability in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access SMA 100 series products. SMA 100 series products provide an organization’s employees with remote access to internal resources. SonicWall security and engineering teams have confirmed a zero-day vulnerability that was reported by a...

Google uncovers new iOS security feature Apple quietly added after zero-day attacks

Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed "BlastDoor," the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was...

Google uncovers new iOS security feature Apple quietly added after zero-day attacks

Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed "BlastDoor ," the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was...

Apple Patches Three Actively Exploited Zero-Days, Part of iOS Emergency Update

Apple continues to put out potential security fires by patching zero-day vulnerabilities, releasing an emergency update this week to patch three more recently discovered in iOS after a major software update in November already fixed three that were being actively exploited. The newly patched bugs...

Apple Warns of 3 iOS Zero-Day Security Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. Reported by an anonymous researcher, the three zero-day flaws — CVE-2021-1782, CVE-2021-1870, and CVE-2021-1871 — could have allowed...

Apple Warns of 3 iOS Zero-Day Security Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. Reported by an anonymous researcher, the three zero-day flaws — CVE-2021-1782, CVE-2021-1870, and CVE-2021-1871 — could have allowed...

FannyBMP or DementiaWheel Detection Registry Check

This module searches for the Fanny.bmp worm related reg keys. fannybmp is a worm that exploited zero day vulns more specifically, the LNK Exploit CVE-2010-2568. Which allowed it to spread even if USB Autorun was turned off. This is the same exploit that was used in StuxNet. Module Options msf use...

North Korea Targets Security Researchers in Elaborate 0-Day Campaign

Hackers linked to North Korea are targeting security researchers with an elaborate social-engineering campaign that sets up trusted relationships with them — and then infects their organizations’ systems with custom backdoor malware. That’s according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, which...