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Microsoft
A Closer Look at February 2015's Patch Tuesday
This month's Patch Tuesday covers nine security bulletins from Microsoft,
including what seems like a not-very-unusual mix of remote code execution (RCE)
vulnerabilities and security feature bypasses. However, two of these bulletins –
MS15-011 [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-011] and
MS15-014 [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-014] –
require a closer look, both because of the severity of the vulnerabilities that
they address and the changes Mi
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Android
R7-2015-02: Google Play Store X-Frame-Options (XFO) Gaps Enable Android Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Vulnerability Summary
Due to a lack of complete coverage for X-Frame-Options
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/X-Frame-Options] (XFO)
support on Google's Play Store [https://play.google.com/] web application
domain, a malicious user can leverage either a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in a particular area of the Google Play Store web application, or
a Universal XSS (UXSS) targeting affected browsers, to remotely install and
launch the main intent of an arbitrary Play S
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Nexpose
GHOSTbuster: How to scan just for CVE-2015-0235 and keep your historical site data
A recently discovered severe vulnerability, nicknamed GHOST, can result in
remote code execution exploits on vulnerable systems. Affected systems should be
patched and rebooted immediately. Learn more about
[/2015/01/27/ghost-in-the-machine-is-cve-2015-0235-another-heartbleed]
CVE-2015-0235 and its risks
[/2015/01/27/ghost-in-the-machine-is-cve-2015-0235-another-heartbleed].
The Nexpose 5.12.0 content update provides coverage for the GHOST vulnerability.
Once the Nexpose 5.12.0 content update
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Linux
GHOST in the Machine - Is CVE-2015-0235 another Heartbleed?
CVE-2015-0235 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Linux systems
using older versions of the GNU C Library (glibc versions less than 2.18). The
bug was discovered by researchers at Qualys and named GHOST in reference to the
_gethostbyname function (and possibly because it makes for some nice puns).
To be clear, this is NOT the end of the Internet as we know, nor is it further
evidence (after Stormaggedon) that the end of the world is nigh. It's also not
another Heartbleed. But it
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Vulnerability Disclosure
POODLE Jr.: The Revenge - How to scan for CVE-2014-8730
A severe vulnerability was disclosed in the F5 implementation of TLS 1.x that
allows incorrect padding and therefore jeopardizes the protocol's ability to
secure communications in a way similar to the POODLE vulnerability
[/2014/10/14/poodle-unleashed-understanding-the-ssl-30-vulnerability].
The Nexpose 5.11.10 update provides coverage for this vulnerability, which has
been given the identifier CVE-2014-8730
[http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8730]. Learn more
about CVE-2
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Authentication
Patch CVE-2014-6324 To Avoid A Complete Domain Rebuild When UserInsight Detects Its Exploit
On Tuesday, November 18th, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch
affecting any Windows domain controllers that are not running in Azure. I have
not yet seen any cute graphics or buzzword names for it, so it will likely be
known as MS14-068, CVE-2014-6324, or "that Kerberos vulnerability that is being
exploited in the wild to completely take over Windows domains" because it rolls
off the tongue a little better.
There is a very informative description of the vulnerability, impact, and
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Vulnerability Disclosure
R7-2014-15: GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access
Introduction
GNU Wget is a command-line utility designed to download files via HTTP, HTTPS,
and FTP. Wget versions prior to 1.16 are vulnerable a symlink attack
(CVE-2014-4877) when running in recursive mode with a FTP target. This
vulnerability allows an attacker operating a malicious FTP server to create
arbitrary files, directories, and symlinks on the user's filesystem. The symlink
attack allows file contents to be overwritten, including binary files, and
access to the entire filesystem wit
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Vulnerability Disclosure
Block the POODLE's bite: How to scan for CVE-2014-3566
A severe vulnerability was disclosed in the SSL 3.0 protocol that significantly
jeopardizes the protocol's ability to secure communications. All versions of SSL
have been deprecated and its use should be avoided wherever possible. POODLE
(Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) is the attack that exploits
this vulnerability and allows a hacker to potentially steal information by
altering communications between the SSL client and the server (MitM). Learn
more
about CVE-2014-3566
[/2014/10
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Vulnerability Disclosure
UserInsight Gets the All-Clear for ShellShock and Helps Detect Attackers on Your Network
If you're in security, you've likely already heard about the ShellShock
vulnerability [http://www.rapid7.com/resources/bashbug.jsp] (aka Bash Bug,
CVE-2014-6271, and CVE-204-7169). We have reviewed how ShellShock is being
exploited, and the disclosed vectors are not applicable to our UserInsight
deployment, yet we're following the security community's lead around patching
all of our systems.
In case other systems on your network have been compromised, you should be extra
vigilant about suspicio
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Vulnerability Disclosure
Bash the bash bug: Here's how to scan for CVE-2014-6271 (Shellshock)
_[Edited 10:05 AM PDT, October, 2014 for the Nexpose 5.10.13 release]_
[Edited 10:05 AM PDT, September 26, 2014 for the Nexpose 5.10.11 release]
A severe vulnerability was disclosed in bash that is present on most Linux, BSD,
and Unix-like systems, including Mac OS X. The basis of this vulnerability
(nicknamed Shellshock) is that bash does not stop processing after the function
definition, leaving it vulnerable to malicious functions containing trailing
commands. Common Vulnerabilities and Exp
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Vulnerability Disclosure
R7-2014-12: More Amplification Vulnerabilities in NTP Allow Even More DRDoS Attacks
Overview
As part of Rapid7 Labs' Project Sonar [https://sonar.labs.rapid7.com/], among
other things, we scan the entire public IPv4 space (minus those who have opted
out) looking for listening NTP servers. During this research we discovered some
unknown NTP servers responding to our probes with messages that were entirely
unexpected. This lead to the writing of an NTP fuzzer in Metasploit
[https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/fuzzers/ntp/ntp_protocol_fuz
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Vulnerability Disclosure
R7-2014-01, R7-2014-02, R7-2014-03 Disclosures: Exposure of Critical Information Via SNMP Public Community String
Summary of Vulnerabilities
This report details three critical information disclosure vulnerabilities. The
vulnerabilities were discovered while Matthew Kienow and I (Deral Heiland
[https://twitter.com/percent_x]) were researching information disclosure issues
in SNMP on embedded appliances for a talk
[http://carolinacon.org/abstracts.html#6] at CarolinaCon
[http://carolinacon.org/index.html]. During this research project, most devices
exposed information that would be classified as benign or pub
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Vulnerability Disclosure
Supermicro IPMI Firmware Vulnerabilities
Introduction
This post summarizes the results of a limited security analysis of the
Supermicro IPMI firmware. This firmware is used in the baseboard management
controller (BMC) of many Supermicro motherboards.
The majority of our findings relate to firmware version SMT_X9_226. The
information in this post was provided to Supermicro on August 22nd, 2013 in
accordance with the Rapid7 vulnerability disclosure policy.
Although we have a number of Metasploit modules in development to test these
iss
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Vulnerability Disclosure
Seven FOSS Tricks and Treats (Part One)
Adventures in FOSS Exploitation, Part One: Vulnerability Discovery
_This is the first of a pair of blog posts covering the disclosure of seven new
Metasploit modules exploiting seven popular free, open source software (FOSS)
projects.
Back over DEFCON, Metasploit contributor Brandon Perry decided to peek in on
SourceForge, that grand-daddy of open source software distribution sites, to see
what vulnerabilities and exposures he could shake loose from an assortment of
popular open source enterpri
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Product Updates
Weekly Update: Cooperative Disclosure and Assessing Joomla
Cooperative Disclosure
I'm in attendance this year at Rapid7's UNITED Security Summit, and the
conversations I'm finding myself in are tending to revolve around vulnerability
disclosure. While Metasploit doesn't traffic in zero-day vulnerabilities every
day, it happens often enough that we have a disclosure policy that we stick to
when we get a hold of newly uncovered vulnerabilities.
What's not talked about in that disclosure policy is the Metasploit exploit dev
community's willingness to help