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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 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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