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...

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...

February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW

February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW. Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting...

November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review

November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review. Hello everyone! It has been 3 months since the last episode. I spent most of this time improving my Vulristics project. So in this episode, let’s take a loo...

October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture

October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture. Hello everyone! October was an interesting and busy month for me. I started a new job, worked on my open source Vulristics project, and analyzed vulnerabilities...

September 2023: VM courses, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian Podcasts, Goodbye Tinkoff, MS Patch Tuesday, Qualys TOP 20, Linux, Forrester, GigaOm, R-Vision VM

September 2023: VM courses, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian Podcasts, Goodbye Tinkoff, MS Patch Tuesday, Qualys TOP 20, Linux, Forrester, GigaOm, R-Vision VM. Hello everyone! On the last day of September, I decided to record another retrospective episode on how my Vulnerability Management month went...

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper. Hello everyone! This month I decided NOT to make an episode completely dedicated to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Instead, this episode will be an...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between June and July Patch Tuesdays...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2023: Edge type confusion, Git RCE, OneNote Spoofing, PGM RCE, Exchange RCE, SharePoint EoP

Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2023: Edge type confusion, Git RCE, OneNote Spoofing, PGM RCE, Exchange RCE, SharePoint EoP. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between May and June Patch Tuesdays. Alternative...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2023: Microsoft Edge, BlackLotus Secure Boot SFB, OLE RCE, Win32k EoP, NFS RCE, PGM RCE, LDAP RCE, SharePoint RCE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2023: Microsoft Edge, BlackLotus Secure Boot SFB, OLE RCE, Win32k EoP, NFS RCE, PGM RCE, LDAP RCE, SharePoint RCE. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between April and May Patch...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2023: CLFS EoP, Word RCE, MSMQ QueueJumper RCE, PCL6, DNS, DHCP

Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2023: CLFS EoP, Word RCE, MSMQ QueueJumper RCE, PCL6, DNS, DHCP. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between March and April Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia:...

Vulristics News: EPSS v3 Support, Integration into Cloud Advisor

Vulristics News: EPSS v3 Support, Integration into Cloud Advisor. Hello everyone! This episode will focus on the news from my open source Vulristics project for vulnerability analysis and prioritization. Alternative video link for Russia: https://vk.com/video-149273431456239122 EPSS v3 The third...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2023: Outlook EoP, MOTW Bypass, Excel DoS, HTTP/3 RCE, ICMP RCE, RPC RCE

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between February and March Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. I...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday February 2023: Win Graphics RCE, Edge RCE, Publisher SFB, CLFS EoP, Exchange RCEs, Word RCE, HoloLens1

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between January and February Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: This month I decided to change the format a bit. Now I share my impression of Microsoft...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2023: ALPC EoP, Win Backup EoP, LocalPotato, Exchange, Remote RCEs

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between December and January Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilitie...

How Debian OVAL content is structured

Hello everyone! As we saw in the last episode, the results of vulnerability detection for one host produced by two different APIs can vary greatly. Therefore, in order to find out the truth, it is necessary to understand what vulnerability data is provided by the Linux distribution vendor and how...

Scanvus now supports Vulners and Vulns.io VM Linux vulnerability detection APIs

Hello everyone! Great news for my open source Scanvus project! You can now perform vulnerability checks on Linux hosts and docker images not only using the Vulners.com API, but also with the Vulns.io VM API. Its especially nice that all the code to support the new API was written and contributed ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2022: SPNEGO RCE, Mark of the Web Bypass, Edge Memory Corruptions

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between November and December Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. Alternative video link for...

Is it possible to detect Zero Day vulnerabilities with Vulnerability Management solutions?

Hello everyone! In my English-language telegram chat avleonovchat, the question was asked: "How to find zero day vulnerabilities with Qualys?" Apparently this question can be expanded. Not just with Qualys, but with any VM solution in general. And is it even possible? There was an interesting...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2022: Exchange ProxyNotShell RCE, JScript9, MoTW, OpenSSL, Edge, CNG, Print Spooler

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between October and November Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to create the report. Alternative video link for Russia: The most importan...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday October 2022: Exchange ProxyNotShell RCE, Windows COM+ EoP, AD EoP, Azure Arc Kubernetes EoP

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between September and October Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to create the report. Alternative video link for Russia: $ cat...

Joint Advisory AA22-279A and Vulristics

Hello everyone! This episode will be about the new hot twenty vulnerabilities from CISA, NSA and FBI, Joint cybersecurity advisory CSA AA22-279A, and how I analyzed these vulnerabilities using my open source project Vulristics. Alternative video link for Russia: Americans cant just release a list...

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...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2022: CLFS Driver EoP, IP packet causes RCE, Windows DNS Server DoS, Spectre-BHB

Hello everyone! Lets take a look at Microsofts September Patch Tuesday. This time it is quite compact. There were 63 CVEs released on Patch Tuesday day. If we add the vulnerabilities released between August and September Patch Tuesdays as usual, they were in Microsoft Edge, the final number is 90...

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...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2022: DogWalk, Exchange EOPs, 13 potentially dangerous, 2 funny, 3 mysterious vulnerabilities

Hello everyone! In this episode, lets take a look at the Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2022 vulnerabilities. I use my Vulristics vulnerability prioritization tool as usual. I take comments for vulnerabilities from Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, ZDI and Kaspersky blog posts. Also, as usual, I take into...

Vulnerability Management news and publications #2

Hello everyone! This is the second episode of Vulnerability Management news and publications. In fact, this is a collection of my posts from the avleonovcom and avleonovrus telegram channels. Therefore, if you want to read them earlier, subscribe to these channels. The main idea of ​​this episode...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2022: propaganda report, CSRSS EoP, RPC RCE, Edge, Azure Site Recovery

Hello everyone! Microsoft has been acting weird lately. I mean the recent publication of a propaganda report about evil Russians and how Microsoft is involved in the conflict between countries. It wouldnt be unusual for a US government agency, NSA or CIA to publish such a report. But when a globa...

Vulnerability Management news and publications #1

Hello everyone! In this episode, I will try to revive Security News with a focus on Vulnerability Management. On the one hand, creating such reviews requires free time, which could be spent more wisely, for example, on open source projects or original research. On the other hand, there are...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2022: Follina RCE, NFSV4.1 RCE, LDAP RCEs and bad patches

Hello everyone! This will be an episode about the Microsoft vulnerabilities that were released on June Patch Tuesday and also between May and June Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: On June Patch Tuesday, June 14, 56 vulnerabilities were released. Between May and June Patch...

Vulners Linux Audit API: Security Bulletin Publication Dates in Results

Hello everyone! In this short episode, I want to talk about the new feature in Vulners Linux API. Alternative video link for Russia: Linux security bulletin publication dates are now included in scan results. Why is it useful? A few words why this Linux Audit API is needed. You collect a list of...

PHDays 11: towards the Independence Era

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the Positive Hack Days 11 conference, which took place on May 18 and 19 in Moscow. As usual, I want to express my personal opinion about this event. Alternative video link for Russia: As I did last year, I want to start talking about this...

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...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2022: Edge RCE, PetitPotam LSA Spoofing, bad patches

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022. Sorry for the delay, this month has been quite intense. As usual, Im using my Vulristics project and going through not only the vulnerabilities that were presented on May 10th, but all the MS vulnerabilities presente...

Vulristics May 2022 Update: CVSS redefinitions and bulk adding Microsoft products from MS CVE data

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the latest updates to my open source vulnerability prioritization project Vulristics. Alternative video link for Russia: CVSS redefinitions A fairly common problem: we have a CVE without an available CVSS vector and score. For example, this wa...

Malicious Open Source: the cost of using someone else’s code

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf 22 Vulnerability Management conference, vmconf.pw. I will be talking about malicious open source and the cost of using someone elses code. Alternative video link for Russia: Video in Russian from CISO Forum 2022: To be honest, at the beginnin...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2022 and custom CVE comments sources in Vulristics

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2022 and new improvements in my Vulristics project. I decided to add more comment sources. Because its not just Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and ZDI make Microsoft Patch Tuesday reviews, but also other security companies and...

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...

Gitlab OmniAuth Static Passwords and stored XSS

Hello everyone! In this episode, lets take a look at the latest vulnerabilities in Gitlab. On March 31, the Critical Security Release for GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE was released. GitLab recommends that all installations running a version affected by the issues described...

Spring4Shell, Spring Cloud Function RCE and Spring Cloud Gateway Code Injection

Hello everyone! This episode will be about last weeks high-profile vulnerabilities in Spring. Lets figure out what happened. Alternative video link for Russia: Of course, its amazing how fragmented the software development world has become. Now there are so many technologies, programming language...

How to remove sensitive information from a Github repository

Hello everyone! In this episode, I would like to talk about Github and how to remove sensitive information that was accidentally uploaded there. Alternative video link for Russia: This is a fairly common problem. When publishing the project code on Github, developers forget to remove credentials:...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2022

Hello everyone! I am glad to greet you from the most sanctioned country in the world. Despite all the difficulties, we carry on. I even have some time to release new episodes. This time it will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2022. Alternative video link for Russia: I do the analysis a...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday February 2022

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2022. I release it pretty late, because of the my previous big episode about the blindspots in the Knowledge Bases of Vulnerability Scanners. Please take a look if you havent seen it. Well, if you are even slightly...

VMconf 22: Blindspots in the Knowledge Bases of Vulnerability Scanners

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf22 Vulnerability Management conference. I want to talk about the blind spots in the knowledge bases of Vulnerability Scanners and Vulnerability Management products. This report was presented in Russian at Tenable Security Day 2022. The video i...

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...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2022

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2022. Traditionally, I will use my open source Vulristics tool for analysis. This time I didnt make any changes to how connectors work. The report generation worked correctly on the first try. python3.8 vulristics.py...

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...

Log4j “Log4Shell” RCE explained (CVE-2021-44228)

Hello everyone! I decided to make a separate episode about Log4Shell. Of course, there have already been many reviews of this vulnerability. But I do it primarily for myself. It seems to me that serious problems with Log4j and similar libraries will be with us for a long time. Therefore, it would...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2021

Hello everyone! Its even strange to talk about other vulnerabilities, while everyone is so focused on vulnerabilities in log4j. But life doesnt stop. Other vulnerabilities appear every day. And of course, there are many critical ones among them that require immediate patching. This episode will b...

Vulnerability Intelligence based on media hype. It works? Grafana LFI and Log4j “Log4Shell” RCE

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about vulnerabilities, news and hype. The easiest way to get timely information on the most important vulnerabilities is to just read the news regularly, right? Well, I will try to reflect on this using two examples from last week. I have a security...