Microsoft Offers Analysis of Zero-Day Exploited By Zirconium Group

Microsoft has released technical details on a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known APT group known as Zirconium. According to the company the vulnerability CVE-2017-0005 affects mostly older versions of Windows and can allow an adversary to execute remote code if a user either...

Detecting and mitigating elevation-of-privilege exploit for CVE-2017-0005

On March 14, 2017, Microsoft released security bulletin MS17-013 to address CVE-2017-0005, a vulnerability in the Windows Win32k component that could potentially allow elevation of privileges. A report from a trusted partner identified a zero-day exploit for this vulnerability. The exploit target...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2017:0558 centos7

Check the version of firefox SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882683";...

Mozilla Patches Pwn2Own Zero Day in Firefox

Mozilla was quick to patch a zero day vulnerability identified in the Firefox browser at the Pwn2Own hacking competition last week. The company remedied the issue just shy of 24 hours of being made aware of the flaw, pushing out the updated version 52.0.1 of the browser late Friday. Asa Dotzler,...

firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0558 An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

VM Escape Earns Hackers $105K at Pwn2Own

Hackers managed to take down Microsoft Edge and escape a virtual machine to boot on the third day of Pwn2Own early Friday. Members from Qihoo’s 360 Security Team carried out the VM exploit, earning the group $105,000, by far the highest amount awarded to a group at the hacking challenge this week...

FATEK Automation PLC Ethernet Module

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable. Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: FATEK Automation Equipment: PLC Ethernet Module Vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS The affected Ethercfg software configuration tool runs on the following Fatek PLCs: CBEH versions prior to...

Zero Days Have Staying Power

It takes less than a month for most zero-day exploits to be developed, and about a quarter of those previously unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities will go undiscovered and undisclosed to the vendor for an average of 9.5 years. And the odds two hackers will find the same zero day are slim. RAND...

Uncovering cross-process injection with Windows Defender ATP

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP is a post-breach solution that alerts security operations SecOps personnel about hostile activity. As the nature of attacks evolve, Windows Defender ATP must advance so that it continues to help SecOps personnel uncover and address...

New Apache Struts Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

Security researchers have discovered a Zero-Day vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework, which is being actively exploited in the wild. Apache Struts is a free, open-source, Model-View-Controller MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications, which...

WikiLeaks Exposed CIA's Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reveal details of the CIA's global covert hacking...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution

During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1 User-Interaction: Reboot required Impact: Remote Code...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1...

Unpatched SMB Zero Day Easily Exploitable

In what’s turning out to be the zero day that keeps on giving, researchers are still finding ways to exploit an unpatched denial of service vulnerability that exists in the way Windows implements the Server Message Block protocol. Details around the bug aren’t a mystery. Laurent Gaffié, the...

VIPA Controls WinPLC7

CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: VIPA Controls Equipment: WinPLC7 Vulnerability: Stack Buffer Overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of WinPLC7, a PLC programming software, are affected: WinPLC Versions 5.0.45.5921 and prior. IMPACT...

Windows SMB Zero-Day Exploit Released in the Wild after Microsoft delayed the Patch

Last weekend a security researcher publically disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Server editions after Microsoft failed to patch it in the past three months. The zero-day memory corruption flaw resides in the implementation of the SMB server message block network fi...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Ecava IntegraXor

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely Exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Ecava Equipment: IntegraXor Vulnerability: SQL Injection AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following IntegraXor version is affected: IntegraXor Version 5.0.413.0 IMPACT A successful exploit of this vulnerability could lead to...

About the security content of iCloud for Windows 6.1.1 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...