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About Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability

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About Elevation of Privilege - PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability. An attacker with PAN-OS administrator access to the management web interface can perform actions on the Palo Alto device with root privileges. Linux commands can be injected via unvalidated input in script.

The need for authentication and admin access could limit this vulnerability’s impact, but here we have the previous vulnerability Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012). 😏 Exploitation of this vulnerability chain was noted by Palo Alto on November 17. After November 19, when the watchTowr Labs article was published and exploits appeared, mass attacks began.

On November 21, Shadowserver reported that ~2000 hosts were compromised, mostly in the US and India. According to Wiz, attackers deployed web shells, Sliver implants and cryptominers.

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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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About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability

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About Authentication Bypass - PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the Palo Alto device web management interface could gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated vulnerabilities. Firewalls of the PA, VM, CN series and the Panorama management platform are vulnerable. The vendor recommends restricting access to the management web interface to trusted internal IP addresses only.

🔻 On November 8, a Palo Alto bulletin was released
🔻 On November 15, signs of attacks were noticed, labeled as “Operation Lunar Peek”
🔻 On November 18, the vulnerability was added to the CISA KEV
🔻 On November 19, watchTowr Labs released a post with technical details (“supply the off value to the X-PAN-AUTHCHECK HTTP request header, and the server helpfully turns off authentication”) 😏 and exploits soon appeared on GitHub

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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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