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@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
April 25, 2019 - Vol. 19, Num. 17
Providing a reliable, weekly summary of newly discovered attack vectors,
vulnerabilities with active exploits, and explanations of how recent
attacks worked
Archived issues may be found at http://www.sans.org/newsletters/at-risk
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CONTENTS:
NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES April 17 - 24
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TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Sea Turtle campaign targets well-known DNSs
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NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
Title: Sea Turtle campaign highlights dangers of DNS hijacking
Description: Cisco Talos discovered a new cyber threat campaign called "Sea Turtle," which is targeting public and private entities, including national security organizations, located primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. The ongoing operation likely began as early as January 2017 and has continued through the first quarter of 2019. The investigation revealed that at least 40 different organizations across 13 different countries were compromised during this campaign. Talos assesses with high confidence that this activity is being carried out by an advanced, state-sponsored actor that seeks to obtain persistent access to sensitive networks and systems.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/04/seaturtle.html
Snort SIDs: 2281, 31975 - 31978, 31985, 32038, 32039, 32041 - 32043, 32069, 32335, 32336, 41909, 41910, 43424 - 43432, 44531, 46897, 46316
Title: Cisco discloses 31 vulnerabilities, including some critical
Description: Cisco released advisories for 31 vulnerabilities last week, including "critical" patches for its IOS and IOS XE Software Cluster Management and IOS software for the Cisco ASR 9000 series of routers. Other vulnerabiliites also deal with Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers. If unpatched, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to carry out denial-of-service attacks or gain the ability to remotely execute code.
Snort SIDs: 49858, 49859, 49866, 49867, 49879
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INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
Facebook says it may have "unintentionally uploaded" 1.5 million users' email contacts without their permission.
The source code of the Carbanak malware began appearing on VirusTotal this week.
https://www.securityweek.com/carbanak-source-code-discovered-virustotal
The U.S. says a cyber attack against Japan could be considered an act of war under a security agreement between the two countries.
https://qz.com/1600574/a-cyber-attack-in-japan-could-now-bring-the-us-into-war/
Government leaders from Singapore say a recent string of data leaks and cyber attacks will not prevent the country from moving forward in building what it calls a "Smart Nation."
A recent study found that, in the U.K., the the password "123456" was the most commonly among users who were breached last year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47974583
The Weather Channel was taken off-air for more than an hour last week due to a ransomware attack. The FBI launched an investigation into the attack.
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RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM
This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are
available. System administrators can use this list to help in
prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability
Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit
frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet
activity.
ID: Cve-2019-3799
Title: Spring Cloud Config Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Vendor: Spring
Description: Spring Cloud Config is exposed to a Directory Traversal Vulnerability because the vulnerable versions allow applications to serve arbitrary configuration files through the spring-cloud-config-server module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a malicious user, or attacker, to send a request using a specially crafted URL that can lead a directory traversal attack.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-11387
Title: OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description: OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is exposed to a remote denial of service vulnerability. An issue was discovered in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) through 3.1.0. /rules/REQUEST-942-APPLICATION-ATTACK-SQLI.conf that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ReDOS) by entering a specially crafted string with nested repetition operators.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-1777
Title: Cisco Registered Envelope Service HTML Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: Cisco
Description: Cisco Registered Envelope Service is exposed to an HTML injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user supplied input. A vulnerability in the web-based interface of the Cisco Registered Envelope Service could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against another user of the service. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input by the web-based interface of the affected software. Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script code to run in the context of the affected browser, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or control how the site is rendered to the user.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-1792
Title: Cisco Umbrella Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vendor: Cisco
Description: Cisco Umbrella is exposed to a cross site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user supplied input. A vulnerability in the URL block page of Cisco Umbrella could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user in a network protected by Umbrella. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of input parameters passed to that page. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-4012
Title: Multiple IBM Products SQL Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: IBM
Description: Multiple IBM Products are prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user supplied data before using it in an SQL query. IBM BigFix WebUI Profile Management and Software Distribution are vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially crafted SQL statements, which could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-10691
Title: Dovecot Denial of Service Vulnerability
Vendor: Dovecot
Description: Dovecot is exposed to a remote denial of service vulnerability. A flaw was found in the JSON encoder in dovecot, which an attacker could use to crash the application via usage of invalid UTF-8 characters in the login name during authentication or by using invalid UTF-8 sequence in email when OX push notification driver is enabled. Attackers can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-10893
Title: CentOS Web Panel HTML Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: CentOS
Description: CentOS Web Panel is exposed to an HTML injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input. CentOS-WebPanel.com (aka CWP) CentOS Web Panel is vulnerable to Stored/Persistent XSS for Admin Email fields on the "CWP Settings > "Edit Settings" screen. By changing the email ID to any XSS Payload and clicking on Save Changes, the XSS Payload will execute. Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script code to run in the context of the affected browser, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or to control how the site is rendered to the user.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-0859
Title: Microsoft Windows Win32k Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: Microsoft Windows is exposed to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0685, CVE-2019-0803.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-9208, CVE-2019-9209, CVE-2019-9214
Title: Wireshark Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Vendor: Wireshark
Description: Wireshark is exposed to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit these issues by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed 'pcap' file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/asn1/tcap/tcap.cnf by avoiding NULL pointer dereferences.
Attackers can exploit these issues to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-11035, CVE-2019-11034
Title: PHP Multiple Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Vendor: PHP
Description: PHP is exposed to multiple heap based buffer overflow vulnerabilities. When processing certain files, PHP EXIF extension can be caused to read past allocated buffer in exif_iif_add_value function. An attacker can exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. This may lead to information disclosure or crash.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
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MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES April 17 - 24:
COMPILED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
SHA 256: 3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3
MD5: 47b97de62ae8b2b927542aa5d7f3c858
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3/details
Typical Filename: qmreportupload.exe
Claimed Product: qmreportupload
Detection Name: Win.Trojan.Generic::in10.talos
SHA 256: 8f236ac211c340f43568e545f40c31b5feed78bdf178f13abe498a1f24557d56
MD5: 4cf6cc9fafde5d516be35f73615d3f00
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/8f236ac211c340f43568e545f40c31b5feed78bdf178f13abe498a1f24557d56/details
Typical Filename: max.exe
Claimed Product: x6613 x8BED x8A00 x7A0B x5E8F
Detection Name: Win.Dropper.Armadillo::1201
SHA 256: c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f
MD5: e2ea315d9a83e7577053f52c974f6a5a
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f/details
Typical Filename: Tempmf582901854.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.AgentWDCR:Gen.21gn.1201
SHA 256: 15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b
MD5: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b/details
Typical Filename: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc.vir
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.Generic:Gen.21ij.1201
SHA 256: 46bc86cff88521671e70edbbadbc17590305c8f91169f777635e8f529ac21044
MD5: b89b37a90d0a080c34bbba0d53bd66df
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/46bc86cff88521671e70edbbadbc17590305c8f91169f777635e8f529ac21044/details
Typical Filename: u.exe
Claimed Product: Orgs ps
Detection Name: W32.GenericKD:Trojangen.22ek.1201
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