Research & Reports

Technical Report on Container Security (III)-3

December 29, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Security Risks and Challenges – Container Application Security Threat Container Application Security Threat Microservice Security From traditional monolithic applications to modern microservice applications, security has always been a hot issue. A monolithic application usually exposes fewer services and ports,narrowing the attack surface. In addition, security professionals know common points from which attacks are often launched. […]

IP Reputation Report-12212018

December 21, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Top 10 countries: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at December 21, 2018. But the United States has the largest allocated IP addresses in the world and China is in the second place. So, report IP Reputation as a percentage of total […]

Multiple Cisco Vulnerabilities Threat Alert

November 6, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview Recently, Cisco released an official security advisory to announce fixes for multiple high-risk vulnerabilities, which could cause a denial of service and remote code execution.

LIVE NETWORKS LIVE555 Streaming Media RTSP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-4013) Threat Alert

October 26, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview Recently, the TALOS team disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-4013). This vulnerability exists in the HTTP packet parsing functionality of the LIVE555 RTSP server library. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet, resulting in code execution.

FreeRTOS Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Threat Alert

October 25, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview Recently, researchers from Zimperium disclosed 13 critical vulnerabilities in FreeRTOS, including four remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Drupal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert

October 24, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview Recently, Drupal released an official security advisory to announce the fixes for multiple security issues, including two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities which affect Drupal 7 and 8. The two critical vulnerabilities are described as follows:

libssh Server-Side Identity Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933)Threat Alert

October 23, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview On October 16, local time, libssh officially released an update to fix the server-side identity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933) existing in libssh 0.6 and later versions. By presenting the server an SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS message in place of the SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST message which the server would expect to initiate authentication, the attacker could successfully authenticate without any […]

WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-3191)Threat Alert

October 23, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview On October 17, Beijing time, Oracle officially released a Critical Patch Update (CPU), which contains a fix for the critical WebLogic remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-3191). This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via T3 to compromise vulnerable Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful exploitation of it can result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic Server, […]

WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-3245) Threat Alert

October 22, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview On October 16, local time (early morning on October 17, Beijing time), Oracle officially released the October (third quarter) Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixes a July (second quarter) CPU patch. The WebLogic remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-2893) has not been fully fixed. The newly fixed vulnerability is assigned CVE-2018-3245.

Oracle October 2018 Critical Patch Update for All Product Families Threat Alert

October 22, 2018 | Adeline Zhang

Overview On October 16, 2018, local time, Oracle released its quarterly security advisory of the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the third quarter. The CPU fixes 301 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix.