January Microsoft Patch Tuesday

January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 170 CVEs, 10 of them were added since December MSPT. 3 exploited in the wild: EoP - Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335. No details yet. No vulnerabilities have public exploits. 5 have private ones: Security...

December Microsoft Patch Tuesday

December Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 89 CVEs, of which 18 were added since November MSPT. 1 vulnerability with signs of exploitation in the wild: EoP - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2024-49138. There are no details about this vulnerability yet. Strictly speaking, there was another...

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of "In The Trend of VM": 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social...

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...

Study Vulnerability Assessment in Tenable University for free

Not so long ago, Tenable presented renewed online training platform - Tenable University. It is publicly available even for non-customers, for example, for Nessus Home users. However, not all courses are available in this case. I decided to check it out, registering as non-customer. Logged in...

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...

IT Security in The New Pope

Lol, IT Security is everywhere. Even in the first episode of "The New Pope" TV series the sequel of "The Young Pope", 2016 some monks change credentials in the Vatican's IT systems under cover of night. This happened after, well, some unexpected changes in the corporate culture and organizational...

Vulnerability Management vendors and massive Malware attacks (following the Bad Rabbit)

After the latest Bad Rabbit ransomware attack all Top VM vendors Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7 wrote blog posts on this topic on the same day. Two days later Tripwire also published own review. Why do they care? They do not make antiviruses, endpoint protection or firewalls - the common tools against...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Update Service (CVE-2025-48799) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Update Service CVE-2025-48799 vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in the Windows Update Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges to "NT...

About Remote Code Execution & Arbitrary File Reading – Apache HTTP Server (CVE-2024-38475) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution & Arbitrary File Reading - Apache HTTP Server CVE-2024-38475 vulnerability. Improper escaping of output in modrewrite module leads to remote code execution or arbitrary file reading. Successful exploitation does not require authentication. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.60,...

March Microsoft Patch Tuesday

March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 77 CVEs, 20 of which were added during the month. 7 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild: RCE - Windows Fast FAT File System Driver CVE-2025-24985 RCE - Windows NTFS CVE-2025-24993 SFB - Microsoft Management Console CVE-2025-26633 EoP - Windows Win...

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-2024-0012) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the Palo Alto device web management interface could gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other...

About Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability

About Cross Site Scripting - Roundcube Webmail CVE-2024-37383 vulnerability. Roundcube is a web-based email client with functionality comparable to desktop email clients such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the processing of SVG elements in th...

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...

Vulnerability Management for Network Perimeter

Network Perimeter is like a door to your organization. It is accessible to everyone and vulnerability exploitation does not require any human interactions, unlike, for example, phishing attacks. Potential attacker can automate most of his actions searching for an easy target. It's important not t...

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...

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...

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...

Про уязвимость Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server (CVE-2026-32201)

About Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server CVE-2026-32201 vulnerability. A vulnerability from the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The description provided by Microsoft experts is extremely vague: "Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform...

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 “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...

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...

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...

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",...

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...

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"...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

About Elevation of Privilege - Desktop Window Manager (CVE-2026-21519) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Desktop Window Manager CVE-2026-21519 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the February Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Desktop Window Manager is a compositing window manager included in Windows starting with Windows Vista. A Type Confusion error CWE-843 in Desktop...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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:...

May "In the Trend of VM" (#27): high-profile vulnerabilities in Linux, ActiveMQ, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat Reader

May "In the Trend of VM" 27: high-profile vulnerabilities in Linux, ActiveMQ, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Presenting the traditional monthly roundup of trending vulnerabilities according to Positive Technologies. While the previous April edition featured only one vulnerability, this one...

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...

August “In the Trend of VM” (#18): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and SharePoint

August "In the Trend of VM" 18: vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and SharePoint. A traditional monthly roundup - this time, it's extremely short. Post on Habr rus Digest on the PT website rus Only two trending vulnerabilities: Remote Code Execution - Microsoft SharePoint Server "ToolShell"...

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 -...

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...