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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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Advisory: IDOR in Microsoft Teams Allows for External Tenants to Introduce Malware

TL;DR Max Corbridge (@CorbridgeMax) and Tom Ellson (@tde_sec) of JUMPSEC’s Red Team recently discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of Microsoft Teams which allows for the possible introduction of malware into any organisations using Microsoft Teams in its default configuration. This is done by bypassing client-side security controls which prevent external tenants from sending files (malware in this case) to staff in your organisation. JUMPSEC has detailed remediation options, as...

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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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Advisory CVE-2021-41551 Leostream Connection Broker – Authenticated Zip Slip

Software: Leostream Connection BrokerAffected Versions: 9.0.40.17Vendor page: https://leostream.com/CVE Reference: CVE-2021-41551Published: 25/01/2022Attack Vector: path traversal, authenticatedCredits: Andrei Constantin Scutariu, Lenk Ratchakrit Seriamnuai, Andrea Malusardi Summary Leostream Connection Broker 9.0.40.17 allows administrators to conduct directory traversal attacks by uploading a ZIP file that contains a symbolic link. Mitigation The Leostream has released a patch for this...

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Advisory CVE-2021-41550 Leostream Connection Broker – Authenticated Remote Code Execution

Software: Leostream Connection BrokerAffected Versions: 9.0.40.17Vendor page: https://leostream.com/CVE Reference: CVE-2021-41550Published: 25/01/2022Attack Vector: Remote, authenticatedCredits: Andrei Constantin Scutariu, Lenk Ratchakrit Seriamnuai, Andrea Malusardi Summary As the Leostream Connection Broker version: 9.0.40.17 allowed an attacker to upload any content through Third Party Content functionality, it was found that the application allowed the listed filenames below the ability to...

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Securing against new offensive techniques abusing active directory certificate service

SpecterOps recently released an offensive security research paper that details techniques enabling an adversary to abuse insecure functionality in Active Directory Certificate Service. SpecterOps reports that abusing the legitimate functionality of Active Directory Certificate Service will allow an adversary to forge the elements of a certificate to authenticate as any user or administrator in Active Directory. JUMPSEC has highlighted numerous changes that can be made to Active Directory...

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