James Horseman

Introduction Veeam has recently released an advisory for CVE-2023-27532 for Veeam Backup and Replication which allows an unauthenticated user with access to the Veeam backup service (TCP 9401 by default) to request cleartext credentials. Others, including Huntress, Y4er, and CODE WHITE , have provided insight into this vulnerability. In this post, we hope to offer…

Introduction The recent VMware VMSA describes four new CVEs affecting VMware vRealize Log Insight, reported by ZDI. Three of these CVEs can be combined to give an attacker remote code execution as root. This vulnerability is exploitable in the default configuration for VMware vRealize Log Insight. We have successfully reproduced this exploit and would like…

Introduction The recent VMware VMSA describes four new CVEs affecting VMware vRealize Log Insight. Three of these CVEs can be combined to give an attacker remote code execution as root. This vulnerability is exploitable in the default configuration for VMware vRealize Log Insight. CVE-2022-31704: VMware vRealize Log Insight broken access control Vulnerability CVE-2022-31711: VMware vRealize…

Introduction On January 10, 2023, ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966 (discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security) affecting a wide range of products. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain remote code execution by issuing a HTTP POST request containing a malicious SAML response. This vulnerability is a result of  using an outdated…

Introduction The recent ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 is a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability. Depending on the specific ManageEngine product, this vulnerability is exploitable if SAML single-sign-on is enabled or has ever been enabled. ManageEngine products are some of the most widely used across enterprises and perform business functions such as authentication, authorization, and identity management. Given the nature…

Fortinet recently patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in their FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiProxySwitchManager projects (CVE-2022-40684). This vulnerability gives an attacker the ability to login as an administrator on the effected system. To demonstrate the vulnerability in this writeup, we will be using FortiOS version 7.2.1

Introduction The recent FortiOS / FortiProxy / FortiSwitchManager CVE has been reportedly exploited in the wild. We would like to provide additional insight into the vulnerability so users can begin to determine if they have been compromised. In this post we discuss enabling logging and IOCs for FortiOS 7.2.1. These steps will likely work on…

VMware recently patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in their VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation products (CVE-2022-22972). This vulnerability allows an attacker to login as any known local user.

F5 recently patched a critical vulnerability in their BIG-IP iControl REST endpoint CVE-2022-1388. This vulnerability particularly worrisome for users because it is simple to exploit and provides an attacker with a method to execute arbitrary system commands.