Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches Multiple Vulnerabilities Threat Alert
August 14, 2019
Overview
On August 6, 2019, local time, Cisco released security advisories on remediation of three vulnerabilities in Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches, including two critical ones, one of which has a CVSS 3.0 score as high as 9.8. (more…)
Apache Solr Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0193) Threat Alert
August 13, 2019
1 Vulnerability Overview
Recently, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issued a security bulletin to announce the fix of the remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-0193) in Apache Solr. This vulnerability exists in the DataImportHandler module, a common module used to import data from databases or other sources. The whole DIH configuration of this module can come from the dataConfig parameter included in an external request. As a DIH configuration can contain scripts, this parameter is a security risk. (more…)
ProFTPd Arbitrary File Copy Vulnerability (CVE-2019-12815) Threat Alert
August 12, 2019
Overview
Recently, an official security bulletin was released to announce the remediation of an arbitrary file copy vulnerability (CVE-2019-12815) in ProFTPd. This vulnerability lies in the custom SITE CPFR and SITE CPTO operations in the mod_copy module. By issuing the two commands to ProFTPd, an attacker can copy any file on the FTP server without permission. (more…)
Botnet Trend Report-8
August 9, 2019
3.5 Delivery and Propagation
3.5.1 Behavior Seen
Studying 25 million intrusion logs extracted from NSFOCUS managed services customers in 2018, we found that approximately 14 million logs recorded intrusions using weak password cracking mainly against Telnet, RDP, and SSH services. From other logs, a large portion of intrusions seen were vulnerability-based intrusions, with 54 vulnerabilities frequently exploited (Shown in the table) mostly against routers and IoT cameras. (more…)
IP Reputation Report-08052019
August 8, 2019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at August 04, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Palestine is in first place. The Curacao is in the second place. The country China (CN) is […]
Jackson-databind Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Technical Analysis
August 7, 2019
On June 21, Red Hat officially released a security bulletin to announce the fix for a vulnerability in jackson-dababind. This vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1 affects multiple Red Hat products and a sophisticated exploit using this vulnerability is observed in the wild. On July 22, a security researcher named Andrea Brancaleoni published an article to analyze this vulnerability. (more…)
Jackson-databind Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-12384) Threat Alert
August 6, 2019
Overview
Recently, a security researcher discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2019-12384) in jackson-databind, noting that when certain conditions are met, an attacker, via a malicious request, could bypass the blacklist restriction and remotely execute code in an affected server during deserialization. (more…)
Drupal Access Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2019-6342) Technical Analysis
August 5, 2019
1 Vulnerability Description
Recently, Drupal released a security advisory on the remediation of an access bypass vulnerability (CVE-2019-6342). In Drupal 8.7.4, when the experimental Workspaces module is enabled, an access bypass condition is created. In terms of the security risk, Drupal rates the vulnerability as Critical. (more…)
Botnet Trend Report-7
August 2, 2019
3.4 DDoS Attacks 3.4.1 Behavior Seen Effective attack instructions are botnet attack instructions that control a task other that starting and stopping. Effective attack instructions captured in 2018 included DDoS, Local Area Network (LAN) scanning, and vulnerability exploits among other types of attacks. There were 440,000 DDoS attack instructions issued from botnet families, constituting most […]
IP Reputation Report-07292019
August 1, 2019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at July 28, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Palestine is in first place. The Curacao changes from fourth to second. The country China (CN) is […]
