AM Live Vulnerability Management Conference 2022: my impressions and position

Hello everyone! This episode will be about the AM Live Vulnerability Management online conference. I participated in it on May 17th. Alternative video link for Russia: The event lasted 2 hours. Repeating everything that has been said is difficult and makes little sense. Those who want can watch t...

Asset Inventory for Network Perimeter: from Declarations to Active Scanning

In the previous post, I shared some of my thoughts about the good Asset Inventory system. Of course, for me as a Security Specialist, it would be great if IT will provide such magical system. But such an ideal situation is rarely possible. So now let's see how to build an Asset Inventory system...

CISO Forum 2017

Last week I have attended CISO Forum 2017 in Moscow. I was talking there about "Vulnerability Quadrants: automated hot topic detection in public vulnerability CVE flow". Today I want to share my impressions about the forum itself. To be short, I liked it very much. Both exhibition and...

About Spoofing – Windows File Explorer (CVE-2025-24071) vulnerability

About Spoofing - Windows File Explorer CVE-2025-24071 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The VM vendors didn't highlight it in their reviews. A week later, on March 18, researcher 0x6rss published a write-up and a PoC exploit. According to him, the...

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel-Mode Driver CVE-2024-35250 vulnerability has increased. This vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. As in the case of the CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability, it was discovered by a researcher with the nickname...

The first Zbrunk dashboard and other news

The long New Year holiday season in Russia was not in vain. I had time to work on Zbrunk. As you can see, I made my first dashboard and added other features. No more timestamps in code I added functions to get Unix timestamps from lines in human-readable time format, e.g. "2019.12.10 13:00:00"...

April “In the Trend of VM” (#14): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, VMware products, Kubernetes, and Apache Tomcat

April "In the Trend of VM" 14: vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, VMware products, Kubernetes, and Apache Tomcat. We decided to pause recording new videos, so for now only text. Post on Habr rus Digest on the PT website rus A total of 11 trending vulnerabilities: Elevation of Privilege - Windo...

Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

Veeam B &R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711is exploited in attacks. On September 24, there were no signs of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. And on October 10, Sophos X-Ops reported that they had observed a series of attacks exploiting this vulnerability over the course of a month...

How to Perform a Free Ubuntu Vulnerability Scan with OpenSCAP and Canonical’s Official OVAL Content

Hello everyone! Five years ago I wrote a blogpost about OpenSCAP. But it was only about the SCAP Workbench GUI application and how to use it to detect security misconfigurations. Alternative video link for Russia: This time, I will install the OpenSCAP command line tool on Ubuntu and use it to...

CISO Forum 2022: the first major Russian security conference in the New Reality

Hello everyone! After a two-year break, I took part in Moscow CISO Forum 2022 with a small talk "Malicious open source: the cost of using someone elses code". Alternative video link for Russia: CISO Forum is the first major Russian conference since the beginning of The New Reality of Information...

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 167 vulnerabilities, about twice as many as in March. There is one vulnerability already being exploited in the wild: 🔻 Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server CVE-2026-32201. ZDI experts say "Spoofing bugs in SharePoint often manifest as cross-site...

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 153 vulnerabilities, 2 times more than in March. Of these, 32 were added between the March and April MSPTs. Three vulnerabilities show signs of exploitation in the wild: EoP - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2025-29824. An attacker can gain SYST...

About Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Configuration Manager (CVE-2024-43468) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Microsoft Configuration Manager CVE-2024-43468 vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the October 2024 MSPT. Microsoft Configuration Manager ConfigMgr is used to manage large groups of computers, providing remote control, patch management, software distribution,...

January Linux Patch Wednesday

JanuaryLinux Patch Wednesday. Out of 424 total vulnerabilities, 271 are in the Linux Kernel. None show signs of exploitation in the wild, but 9 have public exploits. RCE - Apache Tomcat CVE-2024-56337. Based on the description, the vulnerability affects "case-insensitive file systems" like Window...

About Authentication Bypass – Hunk Companion WordPress plugin (CVE-2024-11972) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - Hunk Companion WordPress plugin CVE-2024-11972 vulnerability. ThemeHunk company develops commercial themes for WordPress CMS. And the Hunk Companion plugin is designed to complement and enhance the functionality of these themes. The plugin has over 10,000...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Process Activation (CVE-2025-21204) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Process Activation CVE-2025-21204 vulnerability. This vulnerability from the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday was not highlighted by VM vendors in their reviews. It affects the Windows Update Stack component and is related to improper link resolution before fil...

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#11): vulnerabilities that became trending in December and the final report on trending vulnerabilities for 2024

New episode "In The Trend of VM" 11: vulnerabilities that became trending in December and the final report on trending vulnerabilities for 2024. I made this episode exclusively for the Telegram channel @avleonovcom "Vulnerability Management and More". Video on YouTube, LinkedIn Post on Habr rus...

About Authentication Bypass – FortiOS (CVE-2024-55591) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - FortiOS CVE-2024-55591 vulnerability. A critical flaw allows remote attackers to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to the Node.js websocket module. Affected systems include Fortinet devices running FortiOS e.g., FortiGate NGFW and FortiProxy. On Januar...

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege - Microsoft Streaming Service CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability has increased. The vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. At that time, no one highlighted this vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by a researcher with...

Scanvus – my open source Vulnerability Scanner for Linux hosts and Docker images

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf 22 Vulnerability Management conference, vmconf.pw. I will be talking about my open source project Scanvus. This project is already a year old and I use it almost every day. Alternative video link for Russia: Scanvus Simple Credentialed...

June Linux Patch Wednesday

JuneLinux Patch Wednesday. This time, there are 598 vulnerabilities, almost half as many as in May. Of these, 355 are in the Linux Kernel. There are signs of exploitation in the wild for 3 vulnerabilities CISA KEV. SFB - Chromium CVE-2025-2783 MemCor - Chromium CVE-2025-5419 CodeInj - Hibernate...

About Remote Code Execution – Kubernetes (CVE-2025-1974) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Kubernetes CVE-2025-1974 vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. In the default...

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2025-0108) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - PAN-OS CVE-2025-0108 vulnerability. PAN-OS is the operating system used in all Palo Alto Network NGFWs. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to the PAN-OS management web interface. The attacker can then "invoke certain PHP scripts",...

The Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical

The Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2024-49138 has become more critical. Just as I wrote that nothing had been heard about this vulnerability for a month since it was first published in Microsoft's December Patch Tuesday, a public exploit for it appeared on...

February Linux Patch Wednesday

FebruaryLinux Patch Wednesday. There are 561 vulnerabilities in total. 338 in Linux Kernel. Formally, there is one vulnerability with a sign of exploitation in the wild: RCE - 7-Zip CVE-2025-0411. But it is about Windows MoTW and, naturally, is not exploitable on Linux. There are public exploits...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335 vulnerability. These three vulnerabilities were disclosed as part of Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday and share the same description. They were found in a component used for...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver CVE-2024-38144 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It wasn't highlighted in reviews; all we knew was that a local attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges. Three and a half month...

June Microsoft Patch Tuesday

June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 81 vulnerabilities, roughly the same as in May. Among them, 15 vulnerabilities were added between the May and June MSPT. There are 3 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild: RCE - WEBDAV/Internet Shortcut Files CVE-2025-33053. For successful...

Vulnerabilities of Western logistics

Vulnerabilities of Western logistics. On May 21, Western intelligence agencies released joint advisory AA25-141A about attacks targeting infrastructure of Western logistics and tech companies. Alongside the usual Five Eyes, intelligence services from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark,...

May

MayLinux Patch Wednesday. This time: 1091 vulnerabilities. Of those, 716 are in the Linux Kernel. 5 vulnerabilities are exploited in the wild: RCE - PHP CSS Parser CVE-2020-13756. In AttackerKB, an exploit exists. DoS - Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2025-27533. In AttackerKB, an exploit exists. SFB -...

About Remote Code Execution – 7-Zip (BDU:2025-01793) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - 7-Zip BDU:2025-01793 vulnerability. It's about the fact that files unpacked using 7-Zip don't get the Mark-of-the-Web. As a result, Windows security mechanisms don't block the execution of the unpacked malware. If you remember, there was a similar vulnerability in...

About Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2025-23120) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Veeam Backup & Replication CVE-2025-23120 vulnerability. Veeam B&R is a client-server software solution for centralized backup of virtual machines in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. A deserialization flaw CWE-502 lets an attacker run arbitrary code...

About Remote Code Execution – Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112)

About Remote Code Execution - Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP CVE-2024-49112. The vulnerability is from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Three weeks later, on January 1, researchers from SafeBreach released a write-up on this vulnerability, labeled as LDAPNightmare , and a...

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

New episode "In The Trend of VM" 9: 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social "attack on the complainer", "Ford's method" for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. Video on YouTube...

Making Splunk searches using REST API

When you have already learned how to make search requests in Splunk GUI, it may be nice to figure out how do the same from your own scripts using the Splunk REST API. It's really easy! Ok, we have a Splunk SIEM account: user="user" pass="Password123" And we want to execute this search request:...

April Linux Patch Wednesday

April Linux Patch Wednesday. In April, Linux vendors addressed 1,035 vulnerabilities - nearly twice as many as in March. One might assume that most of these would again be Linux Kernel vulnerabilities, but that's not the case! Linux Kernel vulnerabilities were relatively few - just 209. The...

February Linux Patch Wednesday

FebruaryLinux Patch Wednesday. In February, Linux vendors addressed 632 vulnerabilities - 1.5× fewer than in January, including 305 in the Linux Kernel. Two vulnerabilities show signs of in-the-wild exploitation: 🔻 RCE - Chromium CVE-2026-2441 🔻 InfDisc - MongoDB "MongoBleed" CVE-2025-14847 Publi...

November Linux Patch Wednesday

NovemberLinux Patch Wednesday. In November, Linux vendors began fixing 516 vulnerabilities, one and a half times fewer than in October. Of these, 232 are in the Linux Kernel. One vulnerability is exploited in the wild: MemCor - Chromium CVE-2025-13223. Added to CISA KEV on November 19. For 64 mor...

About Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2025-24054) vulnerability

About Spoofing - Windows NTLM CVE-2025-24054 vulnerability. It was patched in the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. VM vendors didn't mention this vulnerability in their reviews; it was only known to be exploited via user interaction with a malicious file. A month later, on April 16, Check Point...

About Remote Code Execution – Windows OLE (CVE-2025-21298) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Windows OLE CVE-2025-21298 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. OLE Object Linking and Embedding is a technology for linking and embedding objects into other documents and objects, developed by Microsoft. A common use of this...

About Remote Code Execution – Apache Struts (CVE-2024-53677) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677 vulnerability. Apache Struts is an open source software framework for building Java web applications. It allows developers to separate the application's business logic from the user interface. Due to its scalability and flexibility, Apach...

About Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - needrestart CVE-2024-48990 vulnerability. On November 19, Qualys released a security bulletin about five privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003 used in Ubuntu...

November Linux Patch Wednesday

November Linux Patch Wednesday. I was happy in October that the number of vulnerabilities was gradually decreasing to an acceptable level, and in November I got a peak again. A total of 803 vulnerabilities. Of these, 567 are in the Linux Kernel. Kind of crazy. 2 vulnerabilities in Chromium with...

The severity of the Remote Code Execution – Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2024-38094) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Remote Code Execution - Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2024-38094 vulnerability has increased. It was fixed as part of the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 9. SharePoint is a popular platform for corporate portals. According to the Microsoft bulletin, аn authenticated attacker with...

VMconf 22: Why Didn’t It Work As Planned and What’s Next?

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about VMconf 22. It was an experiment from the beginning. Is it possible to host a Vulnerability Management event with little effort and budget? Looks like no. So I would like to talk about why the original idea failed and the future of VMconf. The...

February Microsoft Patch Tuesday

February Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 55 vulnerabilities, half as many as in January. There are as many as six ❗️ vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild: 🔻 SFB/RCE - Windows Shell CVE-2026-21510 🔻 SFB/RCE - Microsoft Word CVE-2026-21514 🔻 SFB - MSHTML Framework CVE-2026-21513 🔻 EoP -...

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later?

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2024-49138 vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesdaya month later? Almost nothing. This is a vulnerability in a standard Windows component, available in all versions starting with...

About Path Traversal – Zyxel firewall (CVE-2024-11667) vulnerability

About Path Traversal - Zyxel firewall CVE-2024-11667 vulnerability. A directory traversal vulnerability in the web management interface of Zyxel firewall could allow an attacker to download or upload files via a crafted URL. The vulnerability affects Zyxel ZLD firmware versions from 5.00 to 5.38,...

End of CentOS Linux. Where to migrate?

Hello everyone! As you probably know, CentOS Linux, the main Enterprise-level Linux server distribution, will soon disappear. It wasnt hard to predict when RedHat acquired CentOS in 2014, and now it is actually happening. End of life of CentOS Linux 8 was 31.12.2021. There wont be CentOS Linux as...

Tracking software versions using Nessus and Splunk

Let's say you have already exported scan results from Nessus or Tenable SecurityCenter to Splunk using HTTP event connector, or in some other way. And you see that some critical software vulnerability was published. For example, this month Jira critical vulnerability. How to find out, do we have...