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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:37 Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090)
🔻 01:46 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250)
🔻 02:38 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573)
🔻 03:43 Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982)
🔻 04:44 The scandal with the removal of Russian maintainers at The Linux Foundation, its impact on security and possible consequences.
🔻 05:22 Social “Attack on the complainer“
🔻 06:35 “Ford’s method” for motivating IT staff to fix vulnerabilities: will it work?
🔻 08:00 About the digest, habr and the question contest 🎁
🔻 08:29 Backstage

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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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About Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability

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About Cross Site Scripting - Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability

About Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability. Roundcube is a web-based email client with functionality comparable to desktop email clients such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird.

The vulnerability is caused by an error in the processing of SVG elements in the email body. The victim opens an email from the attacker, which causes malicious JavaScript code to be executed in the context of the user’s page.

In September 2024, specialists from the TI department of the Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) discovered a malicious email with signs of exploitation of this vulnerability. It was sent to one of the government agencies of the CIS countries.

Attacks on Roundcube are not uncommon. At the end of last year, there were news about the exploitation of a similar vulnerability CVE-2023-5631 in targeted attacks.

Update it in a timely manner!

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Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

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Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks. On September 24, there were no signs of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. And on October 10, Sophos X-Ops reported that they had observed a series of attacks exploiting this vulnerability over the course of a month. The attackers’ goal was to install Akira and Fog ransomware. 🤷‍♂️

The thesis of my original post was correct. The absence of reports on the exploitation of vulnerabilities in real attacks is not a reason to ignore them.

“This does not mean that attackers do not exploit these vulnerabilities. It is possible that targeted attacks using these vulnerabilities have simply not yet been reliably confirmed.”

🟥 Positive Technologies classifies the vulnerability as trending since September 10th.

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August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress

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August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress. We have branched off from Seclab news videos and started releasing separate episodes. Hooray! 🥳😎 If we get enough views, we will continue to release them in the future. It’s up to you, please follow the link to the video platform and click “Like” button and/or leave a comment. 🥺

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest (rus) on the official PT website

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 00:48 Remote Code Execution – Windows Remote Desktop Licensing Service “MadLicense” (CVE-2024-38077)
🔻 02:22 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “Copy2Pwn” (CVE-2024-38213)
🔻 03:23 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (CVE-2024-38193), Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-38106), Windows Power Dependency Coordinator (CVE-2024-38107)
🔻 04:50 Unauthenticated Elevation of Privilege – WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin (CVE-2024-28000)

English voice over was generated by my open source utility subtivo (subtitles to voice over)

06:39 Check out the final jingle I generated using AI services 😉 (ToolBaz for lyrics and Suno for music)

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Remote Code Execution – Scripting Engine (CVE-2024-38178)

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Remote Code Execution - Scripting Engine (CVE-2024-38178)

Remote Code Execution – Scripting Engine (CVE-2024-38178). A vulnerability from the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The victim clicks on the attacker’s link, memory corruption occurs and arbitrary attacker’s code is executed.

The tricky part is that the victim has to open the link in Microsoft Edge browser in Internet Explorer compatibility mode. But why would the victim want to set the browser to this mode?

🔻 The victim may be using some old corporate web application that only works in Internet Explorer, so the browser is configured this way. Not such a rare situation. 😏

🔻An attacker may try to convince the victim to enable the setting “Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)” in Edge. 🤷‍♂️

One way or another, the vulnerability is exploited in the wild and there is already a (semi?🤔)public exploit for it. My colleagues at PT ESC shared today how they found and tested this exploit. 🔍

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Trending vulnerabilities of July according to Positive Technologies

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Trending vulnerabilities of July according to Positive Technologies.

The SecLab film crew went on vacation. Therefore, there was a choice: to skip the episode of “In the trend of VM” about the July vulnerabilities, or to make a video myself. Which is what I tried to do. And from the next episode we will return to SecLab again.

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest (rus) on the official PT website

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 00:33 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-38112)
🔻 02:23 RCE – Artifex Ghostscript (CVE-2024-29510)
🔻 03:55 RCE – Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (CVE-2023-45249)

English voice over was generated by my open source utility subtivo (subtitles to voice over)

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