JUMPSEC LABS

The JUMPSEC Lab is a place where the the technical team get creative and showcase their latest security research, publications, interesting news and general thoughts!  We love what we do and are passionate about security, with some great upcoming projects planned, bookmark our site and stick around to see what we are working on.

How Cloud Migration is Affecting AppSec – A Red Teamer’s Perspective

Introduction I’ve recently spoken at several conferences about the changes that are underway within red teaming as a result of cloud migration. My team and I have been delivering majority cloud red team work over the last year and the differences are becoming more apparent by the day. One point I’ve mentioned as ‘controversial’ at several of these events is that cloud migration has actually made AppSec more important than ever. I went some way to trying to explain why I think this is during my...

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Advisory CVE-2023-43042 – IBM Backup Products Superuser Information Disclosure

Software: IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize products Affected versions: 8.3 Vendor page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7064976 CVE Reference: CVE-2023-43042 Published: 08/12/2023 CVSS 3.0 Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Attack Vector: Network Credit: Max Corbridge Summary JUMPSEC’s Head of Adversarial Simulation (@CorbridgeMax) discovered that an unauthenticated user can determine whether the default superuser password...

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Ligolo: Quality of Life on Red Team Engagements

In recent months we, JUMPSEC’s red team, have been using a nifty little tool that we would like to share with you in this blog post. Ligolo-ng is a versatile tool that has been aiding our covert, and slightly-less-covert, engagements with regards to tunnelling, exfiltration, persistence, and widely improving the operators’ “quality of life” when carrying out assessments involving beaconing from within an internal network. This highly-useful tool is developed by Nicolas Chatelain and can be...

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Hunting for ‘Snake’

Following the NCSC and CISA’s detailed joint advisory on the highly sophisticated ‘Snake’ cyber espionage tool, JUMPSEC threat intelligence analysts have provided a condensed blueprint for organisations to start proactively hunting for Snake within their network, contextualising key Indicators of Compromise (IoC), and providing additional methods to validate the effectiveness of Snake detections. Snake’s capabilities The implant dubbed ‘Snake’ has been attributed to Centre 16 of Russia’s state...

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Advisory CVE-2023-30382 – Half-Life Local Privilege Escalation

Software: Half-Life Affected versions: Latest (<= build 5433873), at the time of writing Vendor page: www.valvesoftware.com CVE Reference: CVE-2023-30382 Published: 23/05/2023 CVSS 3.1 Score: 8.2 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector: Local Credit: Ryan Saridar Summary An attacker can leverage a stack-based buffer overflow via Half-Life’s command line arguments to compromise the account of any local user who launches the game. Technical details hl.exe does not adequately perform...

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Advisory CVE-2022-37832 – Mutiny Network Monitoring Appliance hardcoded credentials

Software: Mutiny Network Monitoring Appliance Affected versions: <= 7.2.0-10855 Vendor page: www.mutiny.com CVE Reference: CVE-2022-37832 Published: 16/12/2022 CVSS 3.1 Score: 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector: Network Credit: Ryan Saridar Summary An attacker can log in as root remotely to the appliance via SSH. Mitigation Upgrade to version 7.2.0-10855 onwards to remediate the problem. Technical details Before version 7.2.0-10855, the SSH service allows password login...

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