Events

XXE Vulnerability in WeChat Payment

July 9, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

The website Seclists.Org disclosed a vulnerability in WeChat Pay on 3 July 2018. It was found by a payment security researcher, who described that WeChat unintentionally provides an xxe vulnerability in the JAVA version SDK when merchants provide a notification URL to accept asynchronous payment results. The attacker can build malicious payload towards the notification […]

Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in WordPress Core

June 28, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

RIPS Technologies (www. www.ripstech.com/) published an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the WordPress core on 26 June 2018. Any WordPress version including the current version is affected. After an attacker gains the privileges to edit and delete media files, the vulnerability can be used to escalate privileges attained through the takeover of an account with […]

Zip Slip Vulnerability Advisory

June 7, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

On 5th June 2018 Snyk Security team disclosed a Zip Slip vulnerability, which could result in potential command execution using a specially crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames . Reference: https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability Description Attackers could use a specially crafted archive holding directory traversal filenames (e.g. ../../evil.sh) to trigger this vulnerability. Once a vulnerable code database […]

Cisco IOS XE AAA RCE Vulnerability

June 7, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Cisco released an advisory on 6th June for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0315) in its Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Login Authentication service. It could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device or cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service condition. Reference: https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180606-aaa Affected Versions Cisco […]

Code Execution Vulnerability in Red Hat DHCP Client Script

May 16, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

  Red Hat released a security advisory on May 15 for fixing a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-1111)in the DHCP Client. An attacker on local network could use a malicious DHCP server or a spoofed DHCP response to execute arbitrary command with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager which is configured to obtain network configuration using the […]

Adobe Fixed Nearly 50 Vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader

May 16, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Adobe released updates on Monday for 47 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat and reader, including critical ones that allow information leakage and arbitrary code execution. Category Impact Severity CVE# Double Free Arbitrary Code Execution Critical CVE-2018-4990 Heap Overflow Arbitrary Code Execution Critical CVE-2018-4947, CVE-2018-4948, CVE-2018-4966, CVE-2018-4968, CVE-2018-4978, CVE-2018-4982, CVE-2018-4984 Use-after-free Arbitrary Code Execution Critical CVE-2018-4946, CVE-2018-4952, CVE-2018-4954, CVE-2018-4958, CVE-2018-4959, […]

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in Spring

May 10, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Spring released security advisories on May 9 local time for fixing its multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Reference link: https://pivotal.io/security  Vulnerability Description CVE-2018-1257 (High) Parts of Spring Framework versions allow application programs to use Spring message module to make public STOMP on WebSocket endpoint through simple memory STOMP broker. An attacker could […]

Drupal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

April 30, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

  Drupal released a security advisory on April 25 local time, saying a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-7602) affected Drupal 7.x and 8.x. Attackers could exploit this vulnerability in many ways for remote code execution. Drupal says it correlates with the previous vulnerability CVE-2018-7600 and has been found exploited by attackers. NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence (NTI) Center shows […]

Oracle WebLogic Server RCE Deserialization Vulnerability Analysis

April 20, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

On April 17th local time, Oracle released the critical patch update (CPU) advisory, which contains a fix for the high-risk WebLogic server deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2018-2628), via which attackers can remotely execute arbitrary code in an unauthorized manner. Reference link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html Affected Versions WebLogic 10.3.6.0 WebLogic 12.1.3.0 WebLogic 12.2.1.2 WebLogic 12.2.1.3 According to data on the […]

Iran’s 3,500 Switches Attacked – Cisco IOS/IOS XE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2018-0171 Exploitation

April 12, 2018 | NSFOCUS

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 […]