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⚠️ vSphere Data Protection (VDP) has multiple security vulns patched, including an authentication bypass!
* VDP arbitrary file upload vulnerability
* VDP authentication bypass vulnerability
* VDP path traversal vulnerability
If you use VDP, please look into patching it.
(Severity: 🔸 high)
More Info: http://yt.gl/vmware18
#alert #severityhigh #vdp #vmware #vsphere
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⚠️ WD "My Cloud *" contains a hardcoded backdoor. It lets anyone log in as user mydlinkBRionyg with the password abc12345cba. It is fixed in firmware 2.30.174.
More info: http://yt.gl/wdmcbd
#alert #backdoor #wd #westerndigital #mycloud
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⚠️🚨 Intel CPU design flaw! Will be fixed by Linux , macOS, Windows kernel redesigns. There will be a performance hit which will vary. Affected models are all "modern intel processors produced in the past decade". Please note that there are not many details out yet. More Info: http://yt.gl/intelexp
We advice to read vendor patch notices and prepare scheduled restarts of your systems.
#alert #vulnerability #intel #hardware #windows #macos #linux
🏅 Thanks to the security guys at https://dnstrails.com and the anonymous reporter.
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❗️Uber suffered a massive hack in 2016 and disclosed it just now. I highly recommend you to read the announcement yourself: http://yt.gl/qcje2
#disclosure #dataleak #uber #databreach #hacked
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⚠️‼️ WPA2 (which most personal and cooperate wi-fi use) has several protocol-level flaws. Be adviced that no details are known yet, security researchers will release them later today. (No severity rating from our side until we have more information)
More info: http://yt.gl/krackattack (this will be released later today)
http://yt.gl/krcm7 (Arstechnica with all current info)
#alert #prenotification #exploit #zeroday #wifi #wireless #wpa2
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⚠️ 2.2 Million infected CCleaner installations! Check if your clients have CCleaner installed . (Severity: 🔸 high) Further Information:
on Forbes http://yt.gl/s2x0c and on talos http://yt.gl/0h0hc
#severityhigh #malware #alert #ccleaner
Thanks to the submission by WALK3R to https://infected.io/alert-submission 🙌🏼
Feel free to forward this to your internal IT admins... 😇
⚠️ Apache Struts remote code execution vulnerability! CVSSv3 Base Score 8.1 -(Severity: 🔸 high) Further Information: http://yt.gl/8rnd1
#severityhigh #vulnerability #alert #apache #struts
Thanks to the anonymous report via https://infected.io/alert-submission
⚠️ Intel AMT Privilege Escalation vulnerability. It's affecting almost all FW versions. Rating is "Critical" with a CVSS of 9.8 for one vulnerability. (Severity: 🔶high) Further Info: http://yt.gl/ybyg1
#severityhigh #vulnerability #alert #intel #amt
Forward this to your internal IT. Often Intel AMT is featured by most computers - even though you might have never heard of it.
⚠️ Confluence Wiki has a cirtical vulnerability allowing unauthorized users to access your pages. Affected: Versions above 6.0.0 - fixed in 6.0.7 and 6.1.0 (Severity: 🔸 high) Further Information: http://yt.gl/4rvuv
#alert #severityhigh #vulnerability #atlassian #confluence #wiki
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⚠️ Imagemagick DoS/Possible RCE vulnerabilities. Updates released on debian/suse. (Severity: 🔸high) Further Information: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00052.html
#alert #vulnerability #severityhigh #imagemagick #imageprocessing
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⚠️ Important Oracle Java updates fixing CVSS 9.6+ vulnerabilities out! Update your clients ASAP! (Severity: 🔸high) Further Information: http://yt.gl/javasejan
#alert #severityhigh #vulnerability #java #oracle
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⚠️ Signal, Skype, Slack, Rot, Keeper and all other Electron apps contain a remote code execution vulnerability. Electron released a fix.
* Affected Desktop apps: Signal, Skype, Slack, Rot, Keeper (and many others - see https://yt.gl/electronapps)
* Electron Apps with default prtocol handler (like myapp:// ) are vulnerable
* The devlopers should generate an update asap
Advice: Do not click on any untrusted links. Do not allow webpages to open electron desktop apps.
If you develop (!) Electron Apps, please update to the newest versions: 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.7.11 and 1.6.16 and send an update to your customers.
Skype (newest version) and slack (3.0.3) are already fixed.
"Full" list of all Electron Apps: https://yt.gl/electronapps
macOS and Linux are not vulnerable to this issue.
CVE-2018-1000006
(Severity: 🔸 high ) More Info: https://yt.gl/p0xta
#alert #severityhigh #electron #windows
Thanks to @JonasMuc and @CyborgRel from the @itsectalk admin team for reporting and gathering information on this vulernability. Please forward the info to the team responsible for updating desktop apps!
⚠ Critical CSRF Security Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin Database Tool Patched:
"By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL," the advisory states,
"it is possible to perform harmful database operations such as deleting
records, dropping/truncating tables, etc."
The attack reportedly works even if the user was authenticated in cPanel and phpMyAdmin was closed after use
(Severity: 🔹medium ) More Info: http://yt.gl/3u94c
#alert #severitymedium #PHP #MYSQL
⚠️🔄 Meltdown and Spectre affect Intel, AMD and ARM processors. Every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013) is affected. Especially dangerous on hypervisors.
— Further Information —
Researcher Info: http://yt.gl/meltdown
Intel: http://yt.gl/ih062 | AMD: (no statement)
Microsoft: http://yt.gl/9c1qm | Red Hat: http://yt.gl/7ektf | SUSE: http://yt.gl/6u80m | Ubuntu: http://yt.gl/iy49w
#alert #updated #vulnerability #intel #amd #arm #hardware #windows #macos #linux
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⚠️ TLS - It may be possible to obtain the secret key to a TLS connection via ROBOT attack. Affected users and system administrators are encouraged to disable TLS RSA cyphers if possible. (severity: 🔹medium) Further Info: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389
#vulnerability #severitymedium #linux
#SSL #TLS
⚠ macOS High Sierra allows root login without password! Sounds like a bad joke - unfortunately it's true. Workaround provided - Apple is working on resolving the problem. (Severity: 🔸high) More Info: http://yt.gl/macosroot
#alert #severityhigh #macos #macoshighsierra #vulnerability
This was reported by Chris from http://dnstrails.com/ - If you want to discuss this issue, join us on @itsectalk - Feel free to forward to your macOS friends ;)
⚠️ Update WPA2: The details have been released and can be found at http://yt.gl/krackattack - basically every setup is vulnerable by now. Vendors will be able to patch the flaw and it will be backwards-compatible. Priority should be updating clients! Vendors were notified 14 July and some have patches available. Please ensure to read the disclosure above.
#alert #severityhigh #wpa2 #wifi
Linux (CentOS6/7, Red Hat 6/7 - many builds affected) PIE Stack corruption leads to Local Privilege Escalation. (No severity rating from our side) Further information: https://www.qualys.com/2017/09/26/cve-2017-1000253/cve-2017-1000253.txt
#alert #exploit #linux #centos #redhat
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⚠️ Python - malicious packets found. Ensure that you have the correct libraries and no affected ones installed on your systems! (No severity rating from our side). Further information: http://yt.gl/4uy72
#vulnerability #alert #python #pip
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⚠️ℹ️ Hipchat (hosted) is also affected. Mail addresses and some other information has been accessed by an attacker. *INFO* Right now the download pages seem to be down and there are several outages in the Atlassian ecosystem. Check out http://yt.gl/n7mug and the status page at http://status.atlassian.com/
#alert #severityhigh #databreach #hacked #atlassian #hipchat #confluence #wiki #chat
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⚠️ WordPress fixes 6 possible XSS vulnerabilities and 39 bugs. Please update your installation. (Severity: 🔸high) Further information: https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.3
#alert #vulnerability #severityhigh #wordpress
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⚠️ Cloudflare Memory Leak vulnerability. It's fixed and they're sending out mails to affected customers. Further information: https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/
#alert #vulnerability #memoryleak #provider #cloudflare
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⚠️🚨 Extremely critical RCE in PHPMailer! If you got ANY PHP application -> check it ASAP! The POC exploit code is in the wild - we expect large scale attacks tryign to abuse this flaw shortly!
(Severity: 🔸high) Further Information: http://yt.gl/phpmailer
#alert #severityhigh #vulnerability #zeroday #php #phpmailer
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