1 Vulnerability Overview On April 17, China National Vulnerability Database (CNVD) published details of a remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server. Specifically, this vulnerability exists in the wls9_async_response.war component that comes with Oracle WebLogic Server as this component fails to properly deserialize the input information. An unauthorized attacker could exploit this vulnerability to […]

IoT Agenda – I am known for railing against IoT devices because I consider them the eventual destroyers of the internet as we know it. They are not secure, most people that use them do not realize they are not secure, and most vendors that make them have done little knowing they are not secure.

Overview Cisco has released a security advisory to announce the fix of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-1710) in Cisco IOS XR 64-bit Software running on Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. This vulnerability is the result of incorrect isolation of the secondary management interface from internal sysadmin applications. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to […]

Incident Response Is Changing The enterprise security market has seen fast incorporation of more and more cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile devices into enterprise security environments, which traditionally abound with servers, workstations, and networking and security devices. In this context, enterprises are faced with decentralized services and products from a variety of service […]

Overview On April 16, 2019, local time, Oracle released its security advisory of the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the second quarter. The CPU fixes 297 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, visit the following link: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Overview Cisco officially released a security advisory, announcing the fix of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-1723) existing in the Cisco Common Service Platform Collector (CSPC). This vulnerability exists because the affected software has a default account with a fixed password. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to remotely access an affected device by using this account. This […]

Overview On April 10, local time, Apache Software Foundation officially released a security advisory, announcing the fix of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-0232). The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), when running on a Windows system with enableCmdLineArguments enabled, passes command-line parameters to Windows in an incorrect manner. This leads to the CGI servlet susceptible to […]