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@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
January 09, 2020 - Vol. 20, Num. 02
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 Jan. 2 - 9
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TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Cisco Data Center Network Manager patches SQL injection, code execution vulnerabilities
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NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
Title: Cisco patches dozen vulnerabilities in Data Center Network Manager
Description: Cisco released multiple security advisories last week announcing patches for 12 vulnerabilities in the Data Center Network Manager software. The software allows users to manage their Cisco switches and fabric extenders. Three of the vulnerabilities disclosed (CVE-2019-15975, CVE-2019-15976 and CVE-2019-15977) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and carry out a variety of malicious tasks with administrative privileges on an affected device.
Reference: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/01/06/cisco-data-center-network-manager-flaws-fixed/
Snort SIDs: 52530 - 52547
Title: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenCV
Description: Cisco Talos recently discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the OpenCV libraries. An attacker could potentially exploit these bugs to cause heap corruptions and potentially code execution. Intel Research originally developed OpenCV in 1999, but it is currently maintained by the non-profit organization OpenCV.org. OpenCV is used for numerous applications, including facial recognition technology, robotics, motion tracking and various machine learning programs.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/01/opencv-buffer-overflow-jan-2020.html
Snort SIDs: 50774, 50775 (By Dave McDaniel)
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INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
Companies, organizations and government agencies in the U.S. are anxiously bracing for a retaliatory cyber attack from Iran after an American drone attack on a top Iranian general.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/should-the-us-expect-an-iranian-cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security even went so far as to release a warning telling companies to "consider and assess" the possible damage a state-sponsored attack from Iran could have on their operations.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/homeland-security-iran-cyberattacks/
Homeland Security is expected to push for legislation in 2020 that would allow them to subpoena internet companies to protect infrastructure from cyber attacks.
Currency exchange marketplace Travelex's website was still down as of Tuesday morning after an attack on New Year's Eve. The company referred to the attack as a "software virus."
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/travelex-site-down-new-years-eve/
England is looking into whether malware caused an outage at the London stock exchange in August, though the trading outage was initially blamed on a software glitch. (Please note that this story is behind a paywall.)
Wyze smart camera users are urged to reset their passwords and reconnect third-party apps after researchers discovered an exposed database containing users' personal information.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/wyze-camera-data-leak-how-to-secure-your-account-right-now/
A Japanese intelligence agency released a warning that it is expecting state-sponsored cyber attacks on the 2020 Olympic Games slated to take place later this year after it discovered a series of targeted phishing emails.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/state-backed-cyber-attacks-expected-at-tokyo-2020-games/
Attackers are still exploiting a vulnerability in the Pulse Secure VPN service to deliver malware that deletes the victim's backup files and disables endpoint security controls.
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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-2019-16278
Title: Nostromo Web Server Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Nazgul
Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Nostromo Web Server. This issue is caused by a directory traversal in the function http_verify in nostromo nhttpd allowing an attacker to achieve remote code execution via a crafted HTTP request. After successful exploitation of this vulnerability an attacker can achieve remote code execution via a crafted HTTP request.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2019-5596
Title: FreeBSD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: FreeBSD
Description: In FreeBSD, a bug in the reference count implementation for UNIX domain sockets can cause a file structure to be incorrectly released potentially allowing a malicious local user to gain root privileges or escape from a jail. FreeBSD attempts to handle the case where the receiving process does not provide a sufficiently large buffer for an incoming control message containing rights. The code which performs this operation failed to release a reference obtained on the file corresponding to a received right. This bug can be used to cause
the reference counter to wrap around and free the file structure.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-1405
Title: Microsoft UPnP Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Universal Plug and Play service improperly allows COM object creation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-19726
Title: OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Pulse Secure
Description: Qualys discovered a local privilege escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (ld.so). This vulnerability is exploitable in the default installation (via the set-user-ID executable chpass or passwd) and yields full root privileges. OpenBSD allows local users to escalate to root because a check for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in setuid programs can be defeated by setting a very small RLIMIT_DATA resource limit. When executing chpass or passwd (which are setuid root), _dl_setup_env in ld.so tries to strip LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the environment, but fails when it cannot allocate memory. Thus, the attacker is able to execute their own library code as root.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-1184
Title: Windows Shell COM Server Registrar Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Core Shell COM Server Registrar improperly handles COM calls. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially set certain items to run at a higher level and thereby elevate permissions.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2019-19844
Title: Django count Hijack Vulnerability
Vendor: Django
Description: Django allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. Django's password-reset form uses a case-insensitive query to retrieve accounts matching the email address requesting the password reset.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
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MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES Jan. 2 - 9:
COMPILED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
SHA 256: d73ea76f6f07f96b337335213418b58e3fbc7e4b519fec0ef3fbd19c1d335d81
MD5: 5142c721e7182065b299951a54d4fe80
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d73ea76f6f07f96b337335213418b58e3fbc7e4b519fec0ef3fbd19c1d335d81/details
Typical Filename: FlashHelperServices.exe
Claimed Product: Flash Helper Service
Detection Name: PUA.Win.Adware.Flashserv::1201
SHA 256: 5fc600351bade74c2791fc526bca6bb606355cc65e5253f7f791254db58ee7fa
MD5: 121e1634bf18768802427f0a13f039a9
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5fc600351bade74c2791fc526bca6bb606355cc65e5253f7f791254db58ee7fa/details
Typical Filename: AA_v3.exe
Claimed Product: Ammyy Admin
Detection Name: W32.SPR:Variant.22fn.1201
SHA 256: 1c3ed460a7f78a43bab0ae575056d00c629f35cf7e72443b4e874ede0f305871
MD5: c2406fc0fce67ae79e625013325e2a68
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1c3ed460a7f78a43bab0ae575056d00c629f35cf7e72443b4e874ede0f305871/details
Typical Filename: SegurazoIC.exe
Claimed Product: Digital Communications Inc.
Detection Name: PUA.Win.Adware.Ursu::95.sbx.tg
SHA 256: d8b594956ed54836817e38b365dafdc69aa7e07776f83dd0f706278def8ad2d1
MD5: 56f11ce9119632ba360e5b3dd0a89acd
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d8b594956ed54836817e38b365dafdc69aa7e07776f83dd0f706278def8ad2d1/details
Typical Filename: xme64-540.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: PUA.Win.Tool.Coinminer::100.sbx.tg
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
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