Multiple race conditions due to TOCTOU flaws in various UEFI Implementations

Overview Multiple Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI implementations are vulnerable to code execution in System Management Mode SMM by an attacker who gains administrative privileges on the local machine. An attacker can corrupt the memory using Direct Memory Access DMA timing attacks tha...

OpenSSL 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 decodes some punycode email addresses in X.509 certificates improperly

Overview Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. These vulnerabilities were introduced in version 3.0.0 with the inclusion of support for punycode email address parsing for X.509 certificates. OpenSSL's assessment of the severity of the...

Heimdal Kerberos vulnerable to remotely triggered NULL pointer dereference

Overview The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a null pointer dereferance. An attacker with network access to an application that depends on the vulnerable code path can cause the application to crash. Description CVE-2022-3116 A flawed logical condition in...

Microsoft Exchange vulnerable to server-side request forgery and remote code execution.

Overview Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013 are vulnerable to a server-side request forgery SSRF attack and remote code execution. An authenticated attacker can use the combination of these two vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary...

L2 network security controls can be bypassed using VLAN 0 stacking and/or 802.3 headers

Overview Layer-2 L2 network security controls provided by various devices, such as switches, routers, and operating systems, can be bypassed by stacking Ethernet protocol headers. An attacker can send crafted packets through vulnerable devices to cause Denial-of-service DoS or to perform a...

Signed third party UEFI bootloaders are vulnerable to Secure Boot bypass

Overview A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in signed 3rd party UEFI bootloaders that allows bypass of the UEFI Secure Boot feature. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature and execute unsigned code during the boot process...

muhttpd versions 1.1.5 and earlier are vulnerable to path traversal

Overview Versions 1.1.5 and earlier of the mu HTTP deamon muhttpd are vulnerable to path traversal via crafted HTTP request from an unauthenticated user. This vulnerability can allow unauthenticated users to download arbitrary files and collect private information on the target device. Descriptio...

SMA Technologies OpCon UNIX agent adds the same SSH key to all installations

Overview SMA Technologies OpCon UNIX agent adds the same SSH key on every installation and subsequent updates. An attacker with access to the private key can gain root access on affected systems. Description During OpCon UNIX agent installation and updates, an SSH public key is added to the root...

uClibc, uClibc-ng libraries have monotonically increasing DNS transaction ID

Overview The uClibc and uClibc-ng libraries, prior to uClibc-ng 1.0.41, are vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning due to the use of predicatble DNS transaction IDs when making DNS requests. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to perform DNS cache poisoning attacks against a vulnerable environmen...

Qt allows for privilege escalation due to hard-coding of qt_prfxpath value

Overview Prior to version 5.14, Qt hard-codes the qtprfxpath value to a fixed value, which may lead to privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows software that uses Qt. Description Prior to version 5.14, Qt hard-codes the qtprfxpath value to a value that reflects the path where Qt exists on...

Tychon is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview Tychon contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user may be able to place files. Description Tychon includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory...

Spring Framework insecurely handles PropertyDescriptor objects with data binding

Overview The Spring Framework insecurely handles PropertyDescriptor objects, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Spring Framework is a Java framework that can be used to create applications such as web applications...

Visual Voice Mail (VVM) services transmit unencrypted credentials via SMS

Overview Visual Voice Mail VVM services transmit unencrypted credentials via SMS. An attacker with the ability to read SMS messages can obtain VVM IMAP credentials and gain access to VVM data. Description VVM is specified by Open Mobile Terminal Platform-OMPT and is implemented with SMS and IMAP...

Mobile device monitoring services do not authenticate API requests

Overview The backend infrastructure shared by multiple mobile device monitoring services does not adequately authenticate or authorize API requests, creating an IDOR Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability. These services and their associated apps can be used to perform non-consensual,...

InsydeH2O UEFI software impacted by multiple vulnerabilities in SMM

Overview The InsydeH2O Hardware-2-Operating System H2O UEFI firmware contains multiple vulnerabilities related to memory management in System Management Mode SMM. Description UEFI software provides an extensible interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI software uses a...

Samba vfs_fruit module insecurely handles extended file attributes

Overview The Samba vfsfruit module allows out-of-bounds heap read and write via extended file attributes CVE-2021-44142. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description The Samba vfsfruit module uses extended file attributes EA, xattr to...

McAfee Agent for Windows is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview McAfee Agent contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user may be able to place files. Description CVE-2022-0166 McAfee Agent, which comes with various McAfee products such as McAfee...

Silicon Labs Z-Wave chipsets contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Various Silicon Labs Z-Wave chipsets do not support encryption, can be downgraded to not use weaker encryption, and are vulnerable to denial of service. Some of these vulnerabilities are inherent in Z-Wave protocol specifications. Description Z-Wave devices based on Silicon Labs chipsets...

Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud vulnerable to local user enumeration and authentication bypass

Overview Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud contains user enumeration and authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the local password reset feature. Together, these vulnerabilities could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative privileges if an SSO solution is not configured...

Apache Log4j allows insecure JNDI lookups

Overview Apache Log4j allows insecure JNDI lookups that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the vulnerable Java application using Log4j. CISA has published Apache Log4j Vulnerability Guidance and provides a Software List. Description Th...

Compilers permit Unicode control and homoglyph characters

Overview Attacks that allow for unintended control of Unicode and homoglyphic characters, described by the researchers in this report leverage text encoding that may cause source code to be interpreted differently by a compiler than it appears visually to a human reviewer. Source code compilers,...

Salesforce DX command line interface (CLI) does not adequately protect sfdxurl credentials

Overview The default security configuration in Salesforce allows an authenticated user with the Salesforce-CLI to create URL that will allow anyone, anywhere access to the Salesforce GUI with the same administrative credentials without a log trace of access or usage of the API. Description The...

NicheStack embedded TCP/IP has vulnerabilities

Overview HCC Embedded's software called InterNiche stack NicheStack and NicheLite, which provides TCP/IP networking capability to embedded systems, is impacted by multiple vulnerabilities. The Forescout and JFrog researchers who discovered this set of vulnerabilities have identified these as...

HTTP Request Smuggling in Web Proxies

Overview HTTP web proxies and web accelerators that support HTTP/2 for an HTTP/1.1 backend webserver are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. Description The affected systems allow invalid characters such as carriage return and newline characters in HTTP/2 headers. When an attacker passes these...

Microsoft Windows Active Directory Certificate Services can allow for AD compromise via PetitPotam NTLM relay attacks

Overview Microsoft Windows Active Directory Certificate Services AD CS by default can be used as a target for NTLM relay attacks, which can allow a domain-joined computer to take over the entire Active Directory. Description PetitPotam is a tool to force Windows hosts to authenticate to other...

Microsoft Windows 10 gives unprivileged user access to system32\config files

Overview Multiple versions of Windows 10 grant non-administrative users read access to files in the %windir%\system32\config directory. This can allow for local privilege escalation LPE. Description With multiple versions of Windows 10, the BUILTIN\Users group is given RX permissions to files in...

Arcadyan-based routers and modems vulnerable to authentication bypass

Overview A path traversal vulnerability exists in numerous routers manufactured by multiple vendors using Arcadyan based software. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user access to sensitive information and allows for the alteration of the router configuration. Description The...

Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Point and Print allows installation of arbitrary queue-specific files

Overview Microsoft Windows allows for non-admin users to be able to install printer drivers via Point and Print. Printers installed via this technique also install queue-specific files, which can be arbitrary libraries to be loaded by the privileged Windows Print Spooler process. Description...

Microsoft Windows Print Spooler allows for RCE via AddPrinterDriverEx()

Overview The Microsoft Windows Print Spooler service fails to restrict access to functionality that allows users to add printers and related drivers, which can allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable system. Description The...

Checkbox Survey insecurely deserializes ASP.NET View State data

Overview Checkbox Survey prior to version 7.0 insecurely deserializes ASP.NET View State data, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable server. Description CVE-2021-27852 Checkbox Survey insecurely deserializes ASP.NET View State data. Checkbox...

Devices supporting Bluetooth Core and Mesh Specifications are vulnerable to impersonation attacks and AuthValue disclosure

Overview Devices supporting the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Specifications are vulnerable to impersonation attacks and AuthValue disclosure that could allow an attacker to impersonate a legitimate device during pairing. Description The Bluetooth Core Specification and Mesh Profile Specification are t...

Pulse Connect Secure Samba buffer overflow

Overview Pulse Connect Secure PCS gateway contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in Samba-related code that may allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description CVE-2021-22908 PCS includes the ability to connect to Windows file shares SMB. This capability is provide...

Pulse Connect Secure contains a use-after-free vulnerability

Overview Pulse Connect Secure PCS gateway contains a use-after-free vulnerability that can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description CVE-2021-22893 A use-after-free vulnerability that can be reached via a license server handling endpoint may allow a remote,...

MySQL for Windows is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview MySQL for Windows contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user can create files. Description CVE-2021-2307 MySQL includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLDIR variable as a...

Atlassian Bitbucket on Windows is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to weak ACLs

Overview Atlassian Bitbucket on Windows fails to properly set ACLs, which can allow an unprivileged Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Description The Atlassian Bitbucket Windows installer fails to set a secure access-control list ACL on the default installation directory,...

Siemens Totally Integrated Automation Portal vulnerable to privilege escalation due to Node.js paths

Overview Siemens Totally Integrated Administrator TIA fails to properly set the module search path to be used by a privileged Node.js component, which can allow an unprivileged Windows user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. The PCS neo administration console is reported to be affected...

Sudo set_cmd() is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow

Overview A heap-based overflow has been discovered in the setcmd function in sudo, which may allow a local attacker to execute commands with elevated administrator privileges. Description From the Sudo Main Page: Sudo su "do" allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain use...

Adobe ColdFusion is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to weak ACLs

Overview Adobe ColdFusion fails to properly set ACLs, which can allow an unprivileged Windows user to be able to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Description The Adobe ColdFusion installer fails to set a secure access-control list ACL on the default installation directory, such as...

Dnsmasq is vulnerable to memory corruption and cache poisoning

Overview Dnsmasq is vulnerable to a set of memory corruption issues handling DNSSEC data and a second set of issues validating DNS responses. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to corrupt memory on a vulnerable system and perform cache poisoning attacks against a vulnerable environment...

SolarWinds Orion API authentication bypass allows remote command execution

Overview The SolarWinds Orion API is vulnerable to authentication bypass that could allow a remote attacker to execute API commands. Description The SolarWinds Orion Platform is a suite of infrastructure and system monitoring and management products. The SolarWinds Orion API is embedded into the...

Veritas Backup Exec is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview Veritas Backup Exec contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user can create files. Description CVE-2019-1552 Veritas Backup Exec includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLD...

Embedded TCP/IP stacks have memory corruption vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple open-source embedded TCP/IP stacks, commonly used in Internet of Things IoT and embedded devices, have several vulnerabilities stemming from improper memory management. These vulnerabilities are also tracked as ICS-VU-633937 and JVNVU96491057 as well as the name AMNESIA:33...

VMware Workspace ONE Access and related components are vulnerable to command injection

Overview VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector are vulnerable to command injection in the administrative configurator. This could allow a remote attacker to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system...

Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) protocol does not adequately defend against replay attacks

Overview The Replay Protected Memory Block RPMB protocol found in several storage specifications does not securely protect against replay attacks. An attacker with physical access can deceive a trusted component about the status of an RPBM write command or the content of an RPMB area. Description...

Macrium Reflect is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview Macrium Reflect contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user can create files. Description CVE-2020-10143 Macrium Reflect includes an OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLDIR...

Chocolatey Boxstarter is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to weak ACLs

Overview Chocolatey Boxstarter fails to properly set ACLs, which can allow an unprivileged Windows user to be able to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Description CVE-2020-15264 The Chocolatey Boxstarter installer fails to set a secure access-control list ACL on the...

Acronis backup software contains multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Overview Acronis True Image, Cyber Backup, and Cyber Protection all contain privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which can allow an unprivileged Windows user to be able to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Description CVE-2020-10138 Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Cyber Protect 15 include...

Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) uses insecure AES-CFB8 initialization vector

Overview The Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol MS-NRPC reuses a known, static, zero-value initialization vector IV in AES-CFB8 mode. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate a domain-joined computer, including a domain controller, and potentially obtain domain administrator...

IPTV encoder devices contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in various Video Over IP Internet Protocol encoder devices, also known as IPTV/H.264/H.265 video encoders. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and perform other unauthorized actions on a vulnerable system...

Devices supporting Bluetooth BR/EDR and LE using CTKD are vulnerable to key overwrite

Overview Devices supporting both Bluetooth BR/EDR and LE using Cross-Transport Key Derivation CTKD for pairing are vulnerable to key overwrite, which enables an attacker to to gain additional access to profiles or services that are not restricted by reducing the encryption key strength or...