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Welcome to our cybersecurity research blog where we uncover how malicious actors exploit weaknesses in systems, while going beyond the technical aspects and examining real-world perspectives across various industries.
Here you’ll find extensive research and insight from the well-known Horizon3.ai attack team, intuitive perspectives on everything security, and real-world attack path short stories that come directly from discoveries made by NodeZero.
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Tech Talk: Compliance in Security
In the world of network security, compliance is the bare minimum. Compliance is locking your door, but what about your windows?
Read More CVE-2021-27927: CSRF to RCE Chain in Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise IT network and application monitoring solution. In a routine review of its source code, we discovered a CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability in the authentication component of the Zabbix UI. Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker can take over the Zabbix administrator's account if the attacker can persuade the Zabbix administrator to follow a malicious link....
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POC CVE-2021-21972
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.
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Coming Changes in the Security Landscape
I’m sharing this because I believe it is relevant to ongoing decisions in this community. I’m in a senior leader cyber group and got the chance to follow the headliner yesterday on Vulnerability Assessment tools. I lit them up, and had a CEO reach out to me afterwords on LI…here’s the conversation: Hi Monti, Thank you for your thoughts on...
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Purple Teams
Purple teaming is the result of collaboration, communication and sharing of information between a red team and a blue team in an effort to improve the overall security posture of an organization. How organizations comprise these components may vary, but for context, a Red team is the offensive security team. They are trained in the tools, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures...
Read More CVE-2020-35700: Exploiting a Second-Order SQL Injection in LibreNMS < 21.1.0
LibreNMS is an open source solution for network monitoring based on PHP, MySQL and SNMP. While reviewing its source code, we discovered a second-order SQL injection vulnerability, CVE-2020-35700, in the Dashboard feature. This vulnerability is exploitable by any authenticated user inside LibreNMS. The vulnerability is fixed in LibreNMS 21.1.0.
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