Cutting Through the Noise: Security Insights by Zach Hanley

Overview On 8 March 2023, PaperCut released new versions for their enterprise print management software, which included patches for two vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351. The PaperCut security advisory details CVE-2023-27350 as a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution to compromise the PaperCut application server. PaperCut also details in this advisory…

Introduction On Thursday, 16 February 2023, Fortinet released a PSIRT that details CVE-2022-39952, a critical vulnerability affecting its FortiNAC product. This vulnerability, discovered by Gwendal Guégniaud of Fortinet, allows an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary files on the system and as a result obtain remote code execution in the context of the root user. Extracting…

On Tuesday, October 25 a new OpenSSL hot-fix release was announced which will patch a critical vulnerability that exists within the v3.0.X branch. OpenSSL 3.0.7 will be released on Tuesday, November 1 and in tandem the details of the vulnerability and its associated CVE will be made public. OpenSSL is an open source project that…

Horizon3 Breaks Down Fortinet Vulnerability Zach Hanley, Horizon3 Chief Attack Engineer, and James Horseman, Exploit Developer, join John Furrier of theCUBE to discuss Fortinet CVE 2022 40864.

Overview A common attack path that Horizon3 has identified across many of its customers is abusing access to the VMware vCenter Identity Provider (IdP) certificate. Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) has proved to be a hotbed of vulnerabilities within the last year, as well as a target of many cybercrime syndicates and APTs. In the…

Overview On September 14, multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at Wiz.io. The most critical of them being CVE-2021-38647, now dubbed OMIGOD, which effects the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) agent in versions 1.6.8.0 and below. Azure customers effected by this vulnerability are still vulnerable and must take manual action to ensure the OMI agent is updated.…

On August 25, 2021, Atlassian released a security advisory for CVE-2021-26084, an OGNL injection vulnerability found within a component of Confluence Server and Data Center. This critical vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the server. A few days later, on August 31, security researchers @iamnoob and @rootxharsh quickly developed a working proof of concept given the vulnerability…

In August, Orange Tsai released details and also spoke at BlackHat and DEFCON detailing his security research into Microsoft Exchange. His latest blog post details a series of vulnerabilities dubbed ProxyShell. ProxyShell is a chain of three vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-34473 - Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass CVE-2021-34523 - Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend CVE-2021-31207 - Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to…

Write the file supplied in the --file argument to the location specified in the --path argument. The file will be written in the context of the vsphere-ui user. If the target is vulnerable, but the exploit fails, it is likely that the vsphere-ui user does not have permissions to write to the specified path.