On 17 April, the local time in California, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update(CPU) Advisory in which a critical WebLogic deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2018-2628) allowing remote code execution without authorization was disclosed. This vulnerability was first discovered by an NSFOCUS researcher, who reported it to Oracle immediately. More information about this vulnerability together with NSFOCUS’s technical […]

Ping An Financial Security Research Institute:As the industry’s first comprehensive organization engaging in financial security research and innovation founded by Ping An Technology, a wholly funded subsidiary of Ping An Group, it provides robust technical support for financial security of Ping An Group, the related sector, and the country and makes technical contributions to information […]

News from The Iran Project, the Iranian cyber police confirmed Friday night that the country’s data center was attacked. The attack involved Iran 3500 switches, but the official in the country emphasized that the attack didn’t lead to sensitive data leakage. From description, the suspected attacker exploited the Cisco IOS / IOS XE remote code execution vulnerability-2018-0171 […]

Recently a serious vulnerability (CVE-2018-0171) was disclosed in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software. An attacker could reload an affected device without authorization, resulting in a denial of service condition or remote code execution. This vulnerability originated from improper validation of packet data. An attack could exploit this vulnerability by sending elaborately-crafted Smart Install message […]

Recently, Drupal, a popular open-source content management framework, is found to contain a highly critical remote code execution vulnerability, which allows attackers to execute malicious code on a Drupal site, resulting in the site being completely compromised. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2018-7600. The root cause of this vulnerability is related with Drupal’s rendering of forms: […]

It is no surprise that everyone, including organizations, are vulnerable to a large amount of threats on a daily basis. In Q3 of 2016 alone, Panda Labs captured 18 million new malware samples; that is not including samples detected by other companies. Furthermore, in a study done by Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU), 78% of participants stated […]

  The latest Ubuntu Server has exposed a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2017-16995). This vulnerability has been fixed in earlier versions but has resurfaced in the latest version. Attackers can directly gain root privileges through this vulnerability. Currently Ubuntu has not released the patch yet. Affected version: Currently we know:  Ubuntu 16.04.4 (the latest version) […]

Recently, researchers discovered a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2018-7890) in ManageEngine Applications Manager. Vulnerabilities originate from the publicly accessible testCredential.do endpoint, which can result in remote code execution when validating user-supplied credentials. At present, no official version has been released to fix this vulnerability. Reference links: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7890 https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103358 https://pentest.blog/advisory-manageengine-applications-manager-remote-code-execution-sqli-and/ What is ManageEngine Applications Manager? […]

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