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Introduction Memory safety issues have plagued the software industry for decades. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been leading a charge for secure-by-design and encouraging developers and vendors to utilize memory safe languages like Rust to eradicate this vulnerability class.  Google Chromium, the engine used by the majority of browsers around the world,…

CVE-2024-23897: Assessing the Impact of the Jenkins Arbitrary File Leak Vulnerability.

On January 22, 2024 Fortra posted a security advisory for their GoAnywhere MFT product. This advisory details an authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2024-0204, that allows an unauthenticated attacker to create an administrative user for the application. Customers were made aware of the issue by an internal security advisory post and patch made available on December 4,…

Mirth Connect, by NextGen HealthCare, is an open source data integration platform widely used by healthcare companies. Versions prior to 4.4.1 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2023-43208. If you’re a user of Mirth Connect, you’ll want to upgrade to the latest patch release, 4.4.1, as of this writing.

Introduction Back in Aug. 2023 we released an advisory for CVE-2023-39143, a critical vulnerability that affects Windows installs of the PaperCut NG/MF print management software. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to download and delete arbitrary files, and in certain common configurations upload files, leading to remote code execution. This vulnerability was patched in PaperCut version…

Introduction This post is a follow up to https://horizon3.ai/attack-research/attack-blogs/cisco-ios-xe-cve-2023-20198-theory-crafting/. Previously, we explored the patch for CVE-2023-20273 and CVE-2023-20198 affecting Cisco IOS XE and identified some likely vectors an attacker might have used to exploit these vulnerabilities. Now, thanks to SECUINFRA FALCON TEAM's honeypot, we have further insight into these vulnerabilities. POC See below for an…

Introduction There has been a lot of news around the recent Cisco IOS XE vulnerabilities CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-2073. Information about this vulnerability was first published by Cisco on October 16th, 2023, and since then we have seen evidence of mass exploitation and implantation. In this post we share our technical insights so far into these…

Mirth Connect, by NextGen HealthCare, is an open source data integration platform widely used by healthcare companies. Versions prior to 4.4.1 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2023-43208. If you’re a user of Mirth Connect, you’ll want to upgrade to the latest patch release, 4.4.1, as of this writing.

Introduction This report is a follow up to https://horizon3.ai/vmware-vrealize-log-insight-vmsa-2023-0001-technical-deep-dive/. Earlier this year we reported the technical details for VMSA-2023-0001 affecting VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize Log Insight). In that report, we showed how an attacker could use three different CVEs to achieve remote code execution. During the course of that investigation, we…

On Monday, 16 October, Cisco reported a critical zero-day vulnerability in the web UI feature of its IOS XE software actively being exploited by threat actors to install Remote Access Tools (RATs) and backdoor vulnerable devices exposed on the internet.