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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches. 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:

🔻 00:29 Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2024-43451)
🔻 01:16 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039)
🔻 02:16 Spoofing – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-49040)
🔻 03:03 Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990)
🔻 04:11 Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575)
🔻 05:19 Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012)
🔻 06:32 Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474)
🔻 07:42 Path Traversal – Zyxel firewall (CVE-2024-11667)
🔻 08:37 Is it possible to Manage Vulnerabilities with no budget?
🔻 09:53 Should a VM specialist specify a patch to install on the host in a Vulnerability Remediation task?
🔻 10:51 Full digest of trending vulnerabilities
🔻 11:18 Backstage

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About Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability

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About Elevation of Privilege - needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability. On November 19, Qualys released a security bulletin about five privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003) used in Ubuntu Server, starting with version 21.04.

The needrestart utility runs automatically after APT operations (installing, updating, or removing packages). It checks if a reboot is required, thus ensuring that services use updated libraries without unnecessary downtime.

All 5 vulnerabilities make it possible for a regular user to become root. Qualys has private exploits for each. There is currently a publicly available exploit only for one vulnerability related to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.⚡️ It is available on Github since November 20th.

Update needrestart to version 3.8 or disable “interpreter scanning” in needrestart.conf.

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Over the weekend, I achieved the first results in my open source vulnerability detection project Vuldetta

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Over the weekend, I achieved the first results in my open source vulnerability detection project Vuldetta
Over the weekend, I achieved the first results in my open source vulnerability detection project VuldettaOver the weekend, I achieved the first results in my open source vulnerability detection project Vuldetta

Over the weekend, I achieved the first results in my open source vulnerability detection project Vuldetta. 😇

What I managed to do:

🔹 I parsed Ubuntu OVAL into simple detection rules based on package versions. The structure of Ubuntu OVAL is quite sophisticated, especially when it comes to detecting kernel vulnerabilities (not by packages, but by uname_test and variable_test 🤯). Despite the fact that OVAL content for each distribution version is downloaded in a separate file, distribution version checks are also implemented in OVAL. Now I just go through all the definitions, see which dpkginfo_test are used in the criteria and parse only them.

🔹 I made a primitive utility that uses these detection rules. Without any optimizations, parsing OVAL and calculating vulnerabilities takes 6.5 seconds. It works. 🙂👍

All code is available on Github. Next I will deal with kernel vulnerabilities, optimization and turn the code into an http API.

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September 2023: VM courses, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian Podcasts, Goodbye Tinkoff, MS Patch Tuesday, Qualys TOP 20, Linux, Forrester, GigaOm, R-Vision VM

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September 2023: VM courses, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian Podcasts, Goodbye Tinkoff, MS Patch Tuesday, Qualys TOP 20, Linux, Forrester, GigaOm, R-Vision VM. Hello everyone! On the last day of September, I decided to record another retrospective episode on how my Vulnerability Management month went.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239136

September was quite a busy month for me.

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How to Perform a Free Ubuntu Vulnerability Scan with OpenSCAP and Canonical’s Official OVAL Content

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How to Perform a Free Ubuntu Vulnerability Scan with OpenSCAP and Canonical’s Official OVAL Content. Hello everyone! Five years ago I wrote a blogpost about OpenSCAP. But it was only about the SCAP Workbench GUI application and how to use it to detect security misconfigurations.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239104

This time, I will install the OpenSCAP command line tool on Ubuntu and use it to check for vulnerabilities on my local host.

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Scanvus – my open source Vulnerability Scanner for Linux hosts and Docker images

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Scanvus – my open source Vulnerability Scanner for Linux hosts and Docker images. Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf 22 Vulnerability Management conference, vmconf.pw. I will be talking about my open source project Scanvus. This project is already a year old and I use it almost every day.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239100

Scanvus (Simple Credentialed Authenticated Network VUlnerability Scanner) is a vulnerability scanner for Linux. Currently for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat, Oracle Linux and Alpine distributions. But in general for any Linux distribution supported by the Vulners Linux API. The purpose of this utility is to get a list of packages and Linux distribution version from some source, make a request to an external vulnerabililty detection API (only Vulners Linux API is currently supported), and show the vulnerability report.

Scanvus can show vulnerabilities for

  • localhost
  • remote host via SSH
  • docker image
  • inventory file of a certain format

This utility greatly simplifies Linux infrastructure auditing. And besides, this is a project in which I can try to implement my ideas on vulnerability detection.

Example of output

For all targets the output is the same. It contains information about the target and the type of check. Then information about the OS version and the number of Linux packages. And finally, the actual information about vulnerabilities: how many vulnerabilities were found and the criticality levels of these vulnerabilities. The table shows the criticality level, bulletin ID, CVE list for the bulletin, and a comparison of the invulnerable fixed package version with the actual installed version.

This report is not the only way to present results. You can optionally export the results to JSON (OS inventory data, raw vulnerability data from Vulners Linux API or processed vulnerability data).

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Vulners Linux Audit API: Security Bulletin Publication Dates in Results

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Vulners Linux Audit API: Security Bulletin Publication Dates in Results. Hello everyone! In this short episode, I want to talk about the new feature in Vulners Linux API.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239092

Linux security bulletin publication dates are now included in scan results. Why is it useful?

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