ChatGPT, the popular chat-based artificial intelligence platform, is becoming a target for malicious actors. Poisoning and phishing attacks are on the rise as more people use the platform for personal and business purposes. Poisoning Attack Targeting Open-Sourced ChatGPT Project A threat actor forked a very popular open-source ChatGPT desktop application project and implanted a data-stealing […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Node.js officially fixed an authentication vulnerability (CVE-2023-23918). Due to the flaw of improper permission control in Node.js, a remote attacker can use the process.mainModule.require() function to bypass permissions and access unauthorized modules. The official said that this vulnerability only affects users who have enabled the experimental permission option –experimental-policy. […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Google Chrome officially released a security bulletin, which fixed multiple security vulnerabilities. The key vulnerabilities are as follows: Google Chrome use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2023-0927): Due to a use-after-free flaw in the Web Payments API in Google Chrome, a remote attacker capable of compromising the renderer process could exploit a heap […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that VMware has officially fixed an App Control injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-20858). Due to flaws in product verification of user-input content, attackers with App Control management console permissions can access the underlying server operating system by entering specially crafted data, and ultimately achieve arbitrary code execution on the target system. The […]

Overview Recently, Joomla officially released a security update notice to fix a Joomla unauthorized access vulnerability (CVE-2023-23752), which was submitted by a researcher of NSFOCUS Tianji Lab. Due to flaws in Joomla’s access control to Web service endpoints, unauthenticated attackers access the RestAPI interface to obtain Joomla-related configuration information by constructing specially crafted requests, which […]

The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) warned that [1] an attacker exploited a two-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in VMware ESXi server to deploy new ESXiArgs ransomware. The security vulnerability number is CVE-2021-21974 [2] and it is caused by a heap overflow vulnerability in the OpenSLP service. Unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that Fortinet officially released a security notice, which fixed multiple Fortinet product vulnerabilities. The key vulnerabilities are as follows: FortiNAC keyUpload remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-39952): Due to a flaw in the keyUpload script of FortNAC, an unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code on the target system by sending a […]

Overview On February 15, NSFOCUS CERT monitored that Microsoft had released a security update patch for February, which fixed 75 security issues, involving widely-used products such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Word, Windows Graphics Component, Microsoft Publisher, etc., including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege enhancement and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed in […]

Key Technologies for Software Supply Chain Security—Techniques for Generating and Using the List of Software Compositions (Part 1) Analysis Tools of List of Software Compositions According to the classification by the LINUX Foundation [1], SBOM tools are grouped into three categories, namely, to produce, consume and transform. Each category has three functions. For the producing […]

The list of software compositions and the software bill of materials (SBOM) are different in the requirements for the granularity of the “minimum elements” of the software, without a substantial difference in technical ideas and implementation steps. Considering the relatively mature SBOM generation tools and techniques, this document focuses on various key SBOM techniques and […]