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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

На русском

watchTowr Labs draws attention to some oddities with the fix for the Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication vulnerability (CVE-2024-40711).

🔹 The description of the vulnerability in NVD tells us that authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability, but the CVSS vector in the vendor bulletin indicates that authentication is required (“PR:L”).

🔹 The large number of changes in the patch hints that the vendor fixed some vulnerabilities without informing customers (silent patching).

🔹 The researchers concluded that CVE-2024-40711 was fixed in several stages. At first, exploitation of the vulnerability did not require authentication, then a patch was released and exploitation began to require authentication, and finally, the second patch completely fixed this vulnerability.

❗ Exploitation of the vulnerability allows an attacker to destroy backups and significantly complicate the restoration of the organization’s infrastructure.

На русском

About Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711) vulnerability. The bulletin was released on September 4. The vulnerability description states that it is caused by deserialization of untrusted data with a malicious payload. The vulnerability was discovered by a researcher from CODE WHITE.

Five days later, on September 9, researchers from another company, watchTowr Labs, posted a detailed write-up, exploit code, and a video demonstrating exploitation.

There are no signs of exploitation in the wild for this vulnerability yet. As with the June vulnerability in Veeam B&R (CVE-2024-29849). 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. For example, CISA KEV contains Veeam B&R vulnerabilities from 2022, which were added to the list only in 2023. 😉

Update in advance!

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watchTowr Labs draws attention to some oddities with the fix for the Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication vulnerability (CVE-2024-40711)

About Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711) vulnerability