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November Linux Patch Wednesday

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November Linux Patch Wednesday

November Linux Patch Wednesday. I was happy in October that the number of vulnerabilities was gradually decreasing to an acceptable level, and in November I got a peak again. A total of 803 vulnerabilities. Of these, 567 are in the Linux Kernel. Kind of crazy. 😱

2 vulnerabilities in Chromium with signs of exploitation in the wild:

🔻 Security Feature Bypass – Chromium (CVE-2024-10229)
🔻 Memory Corruption – Chromium (CVE-2024-10230, CVE-2024-10231)

There are no signs of exploitation in the wild for 27 vulnerabilities yet, but there are public exploits. Of these, I would draw attention to:

🔸 Remote Code Execution – PyTorch (CVE-2024-48063)
🔸 Remote Code Execution – OpenRefine Butterfly (CVE-2024-47883) – “web application framework”
🔸 Code Injection – OpenRefine tool (CVE-2024-47881)
🔸 Command Injection – Eclipse Jetty (CVE-2024-6763)
🔸 Memory Corruption – pure-ftpd (CVE-2024-48208)

🗒 Vulristics November Linux Patch Wednesday Report

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About Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability

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About Remote Code Execution - FortiManager FortiJump (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability. FortiManager is a centralized solution for configuring, enforcing policies, updating, and monitoring Fortinet network devices.

🔻 The vulnerability was released on October 23. A missing authentication for critical function in the FortiManager fgfmd (FortiGate-to-FortiManager) daemon allows remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially crafted requests. There were signs of exploitation in the wild and the vulnerability was added to the CISA KEV.

🔻 On November 15, WatchTowr Labs published a post about this “FortiJump” vulnerability with a video demo and a link to the PoC. The researchers noted that the IOCs in the Fortinet bulletin can be bypassed. And the patch itself is incomplete. It is possible to escalate privileges on a patched device by exploiting a vulnerability called “FortiJump Higher”.

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On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30)

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On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30)

On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30). This is actually visible in their own statistics. At the moment, there are 19860 identifiers in the backlog. This week, 1136 new CVEs were received, and they analyzed only 510. And this is not some abnormal week, this happens regularly. They can’t cope with analyzing new vulnerabilities, they don’t have time to deal with the backlog. The crisis continues.

At the same time, for some reason, they write in the message that they have a full team of analysts, and they are addressing all incoming CVEs as they are uploaded into NVD system. But why do their statistics show the opposite?

They write that they processed all the vulnerabilities from CISA KEV. And that’s good. But CISA KEV only added 162 CVEs in 2024. It’s great that NVD was able to process these identifiers, but the achievement is, to put it mildly, not impressive.

Why can’t NVD process this backlog?

They write that the problem is in the format of data from Authorized Data Providers (ADPs), apparently meaning CISA Vulnrichment. NVD is currently unable to effectively import and enhance data in this format. In order to be able to do this, they are developing some “new systems”.

Not only have they admitted their inability to analyze vulnerabilities on their own and their willingness to use the results of someone else’s analysis as is, they also cannot write parser-converters in any adequate time. 🐾 I have no words. 🤦‍♂️

And now there is news that US Senator Rand Paul, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has promised to seriously reduce the powers of CISA or eliminate them completely. 😁 It’s all because of CISA’s work “to counter disinformation” before the US elections. So the only American information security regulator capable of doing anything useful in a reasonable amount of time could be destroyed. Great idea, comrades, keep it up. 👍

I expect nothing but further degradation.

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Qualys released QScanner – a console vulnerability scanner for container images

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Qualys released QScanner - a console vulnerability scanner for container images

Qualys released QScanner – a console vulnerability scanner for container images. Feed it an image and get a list of vulnerabilities (a la Trivy).

It supports:

“Local Runtimes: Scan images from Docker, Containerd, or Podman.
Local Archives: Analyze Docker images or OCI layouts from local files.
Remote Registries: Connect to AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, JFrog, GHCR, and more.”

Capabilities:

🔹 Detects OS package vulnerabilities
🔹 Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for Ruby, Rust, PHP, Java, Go, Python, .NET and Node.js applications.
🔹 Detects secrets (passwords, API keys and tokens)

But it’s not free. 🤷‍♂️💸🙂 All cases, except SBOM generation, require ACCESS_TOKEN and Platform POD. QScanner is the interface of Qualys Container Security module.

It can be used for:

🔸 scanning local images on developers’ desktops
🔸 integration into CI/CD pipelines
🔸 integration with registries

The concept is interesting. 👍

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November Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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November Microsoft Patch Tuesday

November Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 125 CVEs, 35 of which were added since October MSPT. 2 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild:

🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039)
🔻 Disclosure/Spoofing – NTLM Hash (CVE-2024-43451)

No signs of exploitation, but with a private PoC of the exploit:

🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Edge (CVE-2024-43595, CVE-2024-43596)
🔸 Authentication Bypass – Azure Functions (CVE-2024-38204)
🔸 Authentication Bypass – Microsoft Dataverse (CVE-2024-38139)
🔸 Spoofing – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-49040)

Among the rest can be highlighted:

🔹Remote Code Execution – Windows Kerberos (CVE-2024-43639)
🔹Elevation of Privilege – Windows Win32k (CVE-2024-43636)
🔹Elevation of Privilege – Windows DWM Core Library (CVE-2024-43629)
🔹Elevation of Privilege – Windows NT OS Kernel (CVE-2024-43623)

🗒 Full Vulristics report

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About Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982) vulnerability

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About Remote Code Execution - XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982) vulnerability. XWiki is a free open-source wiki platform. Its main feature is simplified extensibility. XWiki is often used in corporate environments as a replacement for commercial Wiki solutions (such as Atlassian Confluence).

A vulnerability with CVSS Base Score 10, published on April 10, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via queries in the XWiki database search interface. This interface is available to all users by default and complements the regular XWiki search. If it is not needed, it can be disabled by removing the Main.DatabaseSearch page. The vulnerability is fixed in XWiki versions 14.10.20, 15.5.4 and 15.10RC1.

An exploit PoC was provided by XWiki developers in their vulnerability bulletin. 🤷‍♂️ Functional scripts for exploiting this vulnerability have been available on GitHub since June 22.

If your organization uses XWiki, be sure to pay attention.

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What is known about the Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday?

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What is known about the Spoofing - Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday?

What is known about the Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday? In fact, just that it is being exploited in the wild. There are no write-ups or public exploits yet. The Acknowledgements section in the Microsoft bulletin is empty. It is not clear who reported it and from whom we can expect details.

ZDI suggested that this could be an additional fix for a similar July vulnerability Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-38112). The vulnerability type and component are the same. The July vulnerability was about “.url” file handling and was exploited by the APT group Void Banshee to install the Atlantida Stealer malware. Attackers may have bypassed the initial fix, prompting Microsoft to release a new patch. So far, this is only an assumption. But the vulnerability shouldn’t be ignored despite its low CVSS Base score (6.5).

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