Overview On October 20, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the October Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 419 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. The update involves multiple commonly used products, such as Oracle MySQL, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Java SE, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Retail Applications. Oracle strongly recommends that users fix these […]
Overview According to NSFOCUS CERT’s monitoring, Microsoft released October Security Updates on October 13 to fix 81 vulnerabilities, including high-risk vulnerabilities like privilege escalation and remote code execution, in widely used products like Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Exchange Server. This month’s security updates fix 3 critical vulnerabilities and 70 important ones, including […]
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 measures for protection. vCenter Server […]
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 serializing JavaBeans or deserializing XML […]
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 user to open a malicious […]
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 crafted OGNL expression. This vulnerability […]
Analysis of the Kill Chain of the LockFile Ransomware Group KDU Tool Terminating Multiple Antivirus Processes The attacker renames the KDU tool (open-source Windows driver loader implementing DSG bypass via an exploit) autologin, copies the related program to the temporary directory, and loads and executes the designated driver file to execute code with kernel privileges […]
Event Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT discovered a slew of security incidents that exploited security vulnerabilities (ProxyShell) in Microsoft Exchange. Also, NSFOCUS found that the new LockFile ransomware group LockFile took advantage of these ProxyShell and PetitPotam vulnerabilities to target enterprise domain environments, finally encrypting quite a few hosts from enterprises for ransom. In April, a […]
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that a security researcher published details and the PoC of an arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3490) in eBPF and exploited this vulnerability to cause local privilege escalation on Ubuntu 20.10 and 21.04. This vulnerability exists because the eBPF ALU32 bounds tracking for bitwise ops (AND, OR and XOR) in the […]
Overview Recently, researchers from JFrog and Forescout released a joint report to publicly disclose 14 security vulnerabilities (collectively referred to as INFRA:HALT) in the NicheStack TCP/IP stack, announcing that these vulnerabilities could lead to remote code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, TCP spoofing, or DNS cache poisoning. Researchers noted that attackers that successfully exploited […]
