F5 BIG-IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-5902)

Update July 10, 2020: F5 updated their mitigation section of security advisory on July 8, 2020 at 17:00 Pacific time, and provided a new mitigation mechanism to help customers mitigate currently known unauthenticated exploits. Qualys also updated QID 38791 to reflect these changes and are availab...

Add Ergonomic Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline

Wikipedia defines ergonomics as “the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. The goal … is to reduce human error, increase productivity, and enhance safety and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction...

Ripple20: Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in Treck TCP/IP Stack

Multiple vulnerabilities that use a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck, Inc. were identified recently in implementations of the Treck IP stack for embedded systems. These vulnerabilities were discovered by the JSOF research lab and have been named Ripple20. Ripple20...

Secure Your Global Remote Workforce

Update June 9, 2020: Qualys adds Malware Detection to Free 60-Day Remote Endpoint Protection offering. This post has been updated to reflect this new Malware Detection capability. IT organizations around the world are responding to the challenge posed by COVID-19 by ensuring that employees are ab...

June 2020 Patch Tuesday – 128 Vulns, 11 Critical, Sharepoint, Workstation, Adobe Patches

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 128 vulnerabilities with 11 of them labeled as Critical. The 11 Critical vulnerabilities cover SharePoint server, Browsers, Scripting Engines, Windows, GDI+, OLE and LNK files. Adobe issued patches today for Experience Manager, Flash Player and...

Product, API & Library Notifications Move to Notifications.qualys.com

Qualys has consolidated notifications of new product features, API changes, and policy library updates at Qualys Notifications to make it easier for our customers to track these changes in one place. Now you will find important notifications such as the latest new Qualys Cloud Platform app...

NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

The Exim MTA vulnerability, initially reported by Qualys in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Recently, the US National Security Agency NSA announced that Sandworm actors Russian hacker group have been actively exploiting the Exim Mail Transfer Agent vulnerability. Qualys releas...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2020 – Meet the Finalists

Qualys is sponsoring the EU Cybersecurity Blogger Awards for 2020, representing a ‘who’s who’ of people that write and share their opinions around the security sector. Ahead of the winners being announced on the 2nd of June, we thought we’d ask some questions around what is taking place in securi...

Qualys Adds Cloud Agent Linux Support for AWS ARM-Based EC2 Instances

Releasing this week May 26, 2020, Qualys adds Cloud Agent Linux support for Amazon Web Services EC2 instances powered by ARM processors including the new Graviton2 processor. AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over...

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020

One of the most respected publications in cybersecurity is the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, analyzing over 150,000 incidents and providing a comprehensive analysis covering the 32,002 incidents and 3950 breaches that meet Verizon's quality standards. I liked very much how they...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, May 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

May 2020 Patch Tuesday – 111 Vulns, 16 Critical, SharePoint, VS Code, Adobe Patches

Continuing the trend of large Microsoft Patch Tuesdays, this month’s addresses 111 vulnerabilities with 16 of them labeled as Critical. The 16 Critical vulnerabilities cover SharePoint, Browsers, Scripting Engines, Media Foundation, Microsoft Graphics, Microsoft Color Management, and the VS Code...

Qualys Community Migration to Salesforce Platform

Update June 9: The Qualys Community discussion forums upgrade is complete. Please visit the new discussions at . If you have an existing Qualys Community account login to https://discussions.qualys.com/, you have received a password reset email because a password reset is required for access to...

Qualys Cloud Platform 10.1.0 New Features

The upcoming release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 10.1.0, includes several new features and enhancements in Qualys Cloud Platform and Qualys Policy Compliance. This release will also add support for new technologies in Qualys Policy Compliance for OCA. 10.1.0 is scheduled to go li...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, April 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Qualys Response to Rapid7’s False Claims on VMDR

As remote working is becoming the need of the hour, IT and Security teams are working tirelessly to ensure continuity of services and deliver on all aspects of the business. To help our customers in these challenging times, we launched a 60-day no-cost ‘Remote Endpoint Protection’ service for...

April 2020 Patch Tuesday – 113 Vulns, 19 Critical, Zero-Day Patches, SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 113 vulnerabilities with 19 of them labeled as Critical. The 19 Critical vulnerabilities cover Adobe Font Manager Library 0-day, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Scripting Engines, Media Foundation, Microsoft Graphics, Windows Codecs, and Dynamics Business...

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there's an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 and more. As remote endpoints are accessing...

New Features in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance

Today we are excited to announce several new features, workflows, and new technology support in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance. These new features will be deployed as a part of QWEB 10.0 and Portal 3.0 release versions. Vulnerability Management Launch and Schedule scans...

Real-Time Alerting and Incident Management for Unauthorized Changes

The security landscape is constantly changing, and you need to adopt proactive measures to stay ahead of security breaches by being extremely vigilant about every little change in your environment. In our previous blog, we discussed how you can leverage the ready-to-use monitoring profiles in you...

Qualys Cloud Platform 3.0 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 3.0 includes updates and new features for Vulnerability Management, highlights as follows. Vulnerability Management The following features apply to all subscriptions that are currently using the Vulnerability Management Dashboard beta. With this...

Secure ElasticSearch, Kafka & Other Microservices with Qualys Cloud Platform

In this era of Digital Transformation, microservices are rapidly gaining popularity within continuously deployed systems. Organizations have moved away from the rigid monolithic architectures to more flexible ones that are based on microservices. Lots of organizations handling large amounts of...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006) using Qualys VMDR®

On March 23, Microsoft released zero day advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library that affects multiple versions of Windows and Windows Server. The vulnerabilities exist within the way that Windows parses OpenType fonts. For...

How to Install the Qualys Cloud Agent for Remote Workforce

The Qualys Cloud Agent can be automatically deployed using any third-party software deployment tools including Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft GPO, HCL BigFix, Dell KACE, and others. For remote or roaming users, deploying packages using software deployment tools requires that the targ...

Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Advisory – Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)

Today, Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library. Microsoft is also aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to leverage this vulnerability. The Vulnerability Microsoft Windows...

Cyber Criminals using Coronavirus Fears to Spread Information-Stealing Malware

Cyber criminals have been leveraging trending cultural and viral news items that drive interest from millions of individuals as mechanisms to target and distribute malware easily and effectively. In the past, cyber criminals have used topics including international sports championships, celebrity...

Qualys Cloud Platform: Continuity of Service in Response to COVID-19

I would like to share Qualys' response to the heightening coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and outline the steps we are taking to ensure continuity of service for our customers and also ensure the health and well-being of our employees. Qualys has a comprehensive business continuity and emergency...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Microsoft SMBv3 RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) using Qualys VMDR

This month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a critical “wormable” remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 SMBv3 protocol. The exploitation of this vulnerability opens systems up to a 'wormable' attack, which means it would be easy to move from victim to...

Automated and Scalable Audit Workflows with Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire

Risk and compliance management is a multi-faceted domain with concentrated endeavors towards reducing unacceptable risk potential that could disrupt business, or otherwise negatively impact business performance. IT GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance comprises many tasks related to business and I...

Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796)

This month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in SMB 3.1.1 v3 protocol. Even though initial release of the Patch Tuesday did not mention this vulnerability, details of the issue CVE-2020-0796 were published accidentally on another security vendor’s blog...

Detect Apache Tomcat AJP File Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938) using Qualys WAS

As previously reported, a severe vulnerability exists in Apache Tomcat’s Apache JServ Protocol. The Chinese cyber security company Chaitin Tech discovered the vulnerability, named “Ghostcat”, which is tracked using CVE-2020-1938 and rated critical severity with a CVSS v3 score of 9.8. This blog...

March 2020 Patch Tuesday – 115 Vulns, 26 Critical, Microsoft Word and Workstation Patches

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 115 vulnerabilities with 26 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 26 Critical vulns, 17 are for browser and scripting engines, 4 are for Media Foundation, 2 are for GDI+ and the remaining 3 are for LNK files, Microsoft Word and Dynamics Business...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, March 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Identifying Let’s Encrypt Revoked Certificates

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, open certificate authority CA run for the public's benefit as a service from the Internet Security Research Group ISRG. It provides free digital certificates to enable HTTPS SSL/TLS for websites via user-friendly means. Earlier this week, Let's Encrypt announce...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.44 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.44 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Cloud Agent User Interface "License Overview" changing to "Activation Overview" on Dashboard – The references to License have been changed ...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Apache Tomcat AJP File Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938) using Qualys VMDR

A severe vulnerability exists in Apache Tomcat’s Apache JServ Protocol. The Chinese cyber security company Chaitin Tech discovered the vulnerability, which is named "Ghostcat" and is tracked using CVE-2020-1938. The security issue has received a critical severity rating score of 9.8 based on CVSS...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, February 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Detections Released for ESU Updates on EOL Windows 7, 2008 and 2008 R2

For the February 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released security updates for Windows 7, 2008 and 2008 R2 systems which are already end of life. Qualys released Patch Tuesday detections QIDs which check for these new ESU patches as well. Update: Qualys released IG QID 45424 to identify the presenc...

Intuitive and Ready-to-Use Monitoring Profiles for Compliance Regulations

Detecting changes from a baseline established for files and file paths and receiving instant alerts about them is crucial to ensure security within a monitored environment. File tampering is an indicator of illicit activity, and authorized users must be alerted whenever changes in a critical file...

February 2020 Patch Tuesday – 99 Vulns, 12 Critical, Patch for IE 0-Day, Exchange Vuln, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 99 vulnerabilities with 12 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 12 Critical vulns, 7 are for browser and scripting engines, 2 are for Remote Desktop Client, and the remaining 3 are for LNK files, Media Foundation, and Windows. The IE 0-day disclosed i...

Top 5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2020 San Francisco

Are you interested in exploring the profound impact of digital transformation on the security industry, and how that impact affects practitioners? Are you planning to be in San Francisco during RSA Conference week? If yes, join us at Qualys Security Conference 2020 San Francisco on February 25!...

New EOL QIDs for Microsoft Windows 7 and 2008/R2

Qualys Vulnerability Signature, version 2.4.815-2, will include EOL QIDs detections for end-of-life software for Windows 7, Windows 2008, and Windows 2008 R2. Customers will be able to scan the QIDs shown below using Qualys Vulnerability Management VM: QID 105859 - EOL/Obsolete Operating System:...

Actionable Searching and Data Download with Vulnerability Management Dashboards

Qualys is introducing the ability to download data from your vulnerability management dashboards. With Qualys Vulnerability Management Dashboards, you can use Qualys Query Language QQL to query the data in your subscription and build vulnerability- and asset-centric dashboards that show your...

OpenBSD OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247)

Qualys Research Labs discovered a vulnerability in OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD mail server that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerability and also quickly provided a patch. Proof-of-concept exploits are published i...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.43 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.43 includes updates and new features for Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Web Application Scanning Editable QID Severity – The severity of WAS QIDs can now be changed to better match your organization's internal policies...

WordPress Database Reset Plugin Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7047, CVE-2020-7048)

A vulnerability recently disclosed by Wordfence and published as CVE-2020-7047 and CVE-2020-7048 allows an attacker to take over vulnerable WordPress-based websites. Functionality in the WP Database Reset plugin introduced the vulnerability, which allows any unauthenticated user to reset any tabl...

Detect Unauthorized Processes Making Changes in Your Environment with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

With the average cost of a data breach exceeding $3.5 million as per Cost of a Data Breach Report, almost all organizations these days adopt stringent policies in order to safeguard their confidential business and customer information. Strong RBAC-driven systems have certainly made it difficult f...

LibMiner: Container-Based Cryptocurrency Miner Targeting Unprotected Redis Servers

Qualys is actively tracking threats which target containers. In our recent analysis, we have identified a few docker instances executing a malware which we term as “LibMiner”. This malware has the capability to deploy and execute Cryptominer. It uses a unique technique for lateral movement across...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, January 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Introducing Periscope: Out-of-Band Vulnerability Detection Mechanism in Qualys WAS

Web applications and REST APIs can be susceptible to a certain class of vulnerabilities that can't be detected by a traditional HTTP request-response interaction. These vulnerabilities are challenging to find but provide a way for attackers to target otherwise inaccessible, internal systems. An...