Overview According to NSFOCUS CERT’s monitoring, VMware’s official security advisory, disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server on September 22. Those issues allow attackers to cause information disclosure, privilege promotion and remote code execution. Now VMware has released security updates to fix the vulnerabilities. Affected users are advised to take...
Author: Jie Ji
SecOps Development: Brief History, Outlook and Challenges
With the boom of the global digital economy, cybersecurity is converging with the Internet of Things (IoT), industrial Internet, cloud computing, and 5G, bringing about disruptive changes to security in various aspects, including traditional physical security, biological security, public security, and national security. Meanwhile, the attack surface keeps expanding in...
XStream Multiple High-Risk Vulnerabilities Threat Alert
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS found that XStream released security advisories disclosing 14 security vulnerabilities in its products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct a DoS, server-side request forgery (SSRF), or remote code execution (RCE) attack. XStream is a tool to serialize Java objects to XML and back again. When...
Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) Threat Alert
Overview On September 8, Beijing time, NSFOCUS CERT found that Microsoft released a security bulletin to disclose a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Microsoft MSHTML. Attackers could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine, and convince the...
Attack Path Visualization in Security Operations
Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, usually involving multiple steps. This necessitates corresponding protections. Attack path analysis is a process of analyzing detected attacks from the network attributes, alerts, vulnerabilities, and assets, finding out the attack logic, and identifying attack paths. Such analysis can inform security operations personnel in their event...
Atlassian Confluence Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-26084) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that Atlassian released a security bulletin to announce the fix of the Confluence Server Webwork OGNL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2021-26084). This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker, and in some instances, an unauthenticated user, to execute arbitrary code on Confluence Server or Data Center by injecting a...
