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@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
November 21, 2019 - Vol. 19, Num. 47
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 Nov. 14 - 21
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TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Attackers user custom droppers to install Agent Tesla
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NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
Title: New, custom dropper delivers variety of information-stealing malware
Description: A wave of adversaries which are dropping well-known information-stealer like Agent Tesla, Loki-bot and others since at least January 2019 using custom droppers. These droppers inject the final malware into common processes on the victim machine. Once infected, the malware can steal information from many popular pieces of software, including the Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox web browsers. The injection techniques are well-known and have been used for many years, but with the adversaries customizing them, traditional anti-virus systems are having a hard time detecting the embedded malware.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/11/custom-dropper-hide-and-seek.html
Snort SIDs: 52246
Title: Denial-of-service vulnerability in some Intel graphics drivers
Description: Intel's IGC64.dll graphics driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this bug by supplying a malformed pixel shader if the graphics driver is operating inside a VMware guest operating system. This type of attack can be triggered from VMware guest usermode to cause a denial-of-service attack due to an out-of-bounds read in the driver.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/11/vuln-spotlight-intel-DLL-driver-DoS-Nov-2019.html
Snort SIDs: 50295, 50296
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INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
An on-demand transcription service is under fire for letting all of its freelance contractors access a database where all the recordings are held.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged two men with stealing SIM cards as part of a scheme to steal thousands of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/alleged-sim-swappers-charged-550000-cryptocurrency-scam/
The new checkra1n iOS jailbreak is now out in the wild, leaving a number of privacy and security questions up for debate among researchers and users.
US Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar urged voting machine vendors to not dismiss amateur security researchers and create a fixed timeline to patch known bugs.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/klobuchar-voting-vendors-election-security/
Google and Samsung recently patched a vulnerability in some photo apps that could allow an attacker to take over a device's camera, but other Android makers' devices are still at risk.
Ten companies formed a new coalition against stalkerware, launching a website to help victims and vowing to stop of the spread of this type of software.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywa7xv/coalition-against-stalkware-launches-eff-kaspersky
Andrew Yang, a US Democratic presidential candidate, released his proposal for what amounts to a "digital bill of rights" that includes taxing digital ads and launching a new federal agency to regulate social networks' algorithms.
Louisiana's state government was hit with a ransomware attack this week, bringing down an internal network and disrupting some public websites. However, the state says it is not paying out the ransom.
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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-2019-17671
Title: WordPress Core Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Vendor: Wordpress
Description: A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability within the WordPress Customizer that allows authenticated users to make changes to the WordPress theme to directly customize the interface. This vulnerability could allow unauthenticated users to view private or draft posts, which otherwise would not be viewable.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-10098
Title: Apache Httpd mod_rewrite Open Redirects Vulnerability
Vendor: Multi-Vendor
Description: In Apache HTTP server, Redirects configured with mod_rewrite that were intended to be self-referential might be fooled by encoded newlines and redirect instead to an unexpected URL within the request URL.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-10092
Title: Apache Httpd mod_proxy - Error Page Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vendor: Multi-Vendor
Description: In Apache HTTP Server, a limited cross site scripting issue was reported affecting the mod_proxy error page. An attacker could cause the link on the error page to be malformed and instead point to a page of their choice. This would only be exploitable where a server was set up with proxying enabled but was misconfigured in such a way that the Proxy Error page was displayed.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
ID: CVE-2019-1821
Title: Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor HA TarArchive - Directory Traversal / Remote Code Execution
Vendor: Cisco
Description: A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute code with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability exist because the software improperly validates user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a malicious file to the administrative web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute code with root level privileges on the underlying operating system.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-1322
Title: Microsoft Windows 'COMahawk' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles authentication requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1320, CVE-2019-1340.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-11932
Title: nipper-ng Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vendor: nipper-ng project
Description: A stack based buffer overflow in the processPrivilage() function in IOS/process-general.c in allows remote attackers (serving firewall configuration files) to achieve Remote Code Execution or Denial Of Service via a crafted file.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES Nov. 14 - 21:
COMPILED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
SHA 256: 7acf71afa895df5358b0ede2d71128634bfbbc0e2d9deccff5c5eaa25e6f5510
MD5: 4a50780ddb3db16ebab57b0ca42da0fb
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7acf71afa895df5358b0ede2d71128634bfbbc0e2d9deccff5c5eaa25e6f5510/details
Typical Filename: xme64-2141.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.7ACF71AFA8-95.SBX.TG
SHA 256: 3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3
MD5: 47b97de62ae8b2b927542aa5d7f3c858
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3/details
Typical Filename: qmreportupload
Claimed Product: qmreportupload
Detection Name: Win.Trojan.Generic::in10.talos
SHA 256: 85b936960fbe5100c170b777e1647ce9f0f01e3ab9742dfc23f37cb0825b30b5
MD5: 8c80dd97c37525927c1e549cb59bcbf3
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/85b936960fbe5100c170b777e1647ce9f0f01e3ab9742dfc23f37cb0825b30b5/details
Typical Filename: Eternalblue-2.2.0.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.WNCryLdrA:Trojan.22k2.1201
SHA 256: c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f
MD5: e2ea315d9a83e7577053f52c974f6a5a
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f/details
Typical Filename: c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f.bin
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.AgentWDCR:Gen.21gn.1201
SHA 256: f917be677daab5ee91dd3e9ec3f8fd027a58371524f46dd314a13aefc78b2ddc
MD5: c5608e40f6f47ad84e2985804957c342
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f917be677daab5ee91dd3e9ec3f8fd027a58371524f46dd314a13aefc78b2ddc/details
Typical Filename: FlashHelperServices.exe
Claimed Product: Flash Helper Service
Detection Name: PUA:2144FlashPlayer-tpd
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