The bugs let hackers crash IoT devices , leak Attack.Databreach their information , and completely take them over . Researchers have found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities . The bugs could allow hackers to crash connected devices in smart homes or critical infrastructure systems , leak Attack.Databreach information from the devices ’ memory , and take them over . And while patches have been issued Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , researchers warn that it still may take time for smaller vendors to update Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Researcher Ori Karliner , with Zimperium ’ s zLabs team , recently analyzed some of the leading operating systems in the IoT market – including FreeRTOS , an open-source OS specifically designed for the microcontrollers that are within IoT devices . Within several versions of FreeRTOS , Karliner found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability 13 vulnerabilities enabling an array of attacks , including remote code execution , information leak and denial-of-service bugs . “ During our research , we discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability multiple vulnerabilities within FreeRTOS ’ s TCP/IP stack and in the AWS secure connectivity modules . The same vulnerabilities are present in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability WHIS Connect TCP/IP component for OpenRTOS\SafeRTOS , ” according to a Thursday post by zLabs . The vulnerabilities specifically exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability FreeRTOS ’ s TCP/IP stack and in the AWS secure connectivity modules ( in as well as in the WHIS Connect TCP/IP component for OpenRTOS\SafeRTOS ) . These vulnerabilities include four remote code execution bugs ( CVE-2018-16522 , CVE-2018-16525 , CVE-2018-16526 , and CVE-2018-16528 ) ; seven information leak vulnerabilities ( CVE-2018-16524 , CVE-2018-16527 , CVE-2018-16599 , CVE-2018-16600 , CVE-2018-16601 , CVE-2018-16602 , CVE-2018-16603 ) one denial of service flaw ( CVE-2018-16523 ) and a final ( CVE-2018-16598 ) that was unspecified . zLabs said Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability it has disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the security issues to Amazon and collaborated with them to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the vulnerabilities . Those fixes were deployed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability for AWS FreeRTOS versions 1.3.2 and onwards . The vulnerabilities in RTOS WHIS were also patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from Threatpost . Due to the amount of vendors impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by the bugs , the researchers said Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that they would hold off on publishing Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability further details until all holes have been sealed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability .

The two vulnerabilities are critical remote code execution flaws that exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Adobe Photoshop CC . Adobe hurried out Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability unscheduled patches today for two critical flaws that could enable remote code-execution in Photoshop CC . The patches impact Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability two memory corruption vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop products , including Photoshop CC 2018 ( v 19.1.6 ) and Photoshop CC 2017 ( v 18.1.6 ) , both for Windows and macOS . The release comes Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability only a week after the company fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a slew of glitches last Patch Tuesday . “ Adobe has released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability updates for Photoshop CC for Windows and macOS , ” the company said in a Wednesday security bulletin . “ These updates resolve Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop CC 19.1.5 and earlier 19.x versions , as well as 18.1.5 and earlier 18.x versions . Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code-execution in the context of the current user. ” Both vulnerabilities ( CVE-2018-12810 ) and ( CVE-2018-12811 ) are critical remote code-execution flaws , according to the advisory , but further details around both flaws are not available . Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet ’ s FortiGuard Labs was credited with reporting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the two flaws . Adobe said impacted users need to apply Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the fixes to the affected versions of Photoshop by updating to version 19.1.6 ( via the applications ’ update mechanism ) . Last week , Adobe released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability 11 total fixes for an array of products , including two critical patches for Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS . Exploitation of those two vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user . Adobe said in an email that it is not aware of any exploits in the wild for the flaws . The update is a priority 3 in severity , meaning that it resolves vulnerabilities in a product that has historically not been a target for attackers , according to the company ’ s ranking system . In this case I would expect there may have been a disclosure deadline and the release did not make this month ’ s typical release cycle but needed to release before September ’ s release cycle . ”

Researchers have discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability some serious security flaws threatening Linux . These vulnerabilities exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Linux systemd component . According to the researchers , the vulnerabilities pose a risk to all systemd-based Linux distros . Allegedly , researchers at Qualys have disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability some bugs targeting the Linux systemd component . Systemd provides the core building blocks for Linux and handles major processes after booting . As revealed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , three vulnerabilities have targeted the systemd-journald , which is responsible for data collection and log storage . The vulnerabilities let an attacker gain root privileges on the target device . The researchers state Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that these vulnerabilities threaten all Linux distros based on systemd except a few . As stated in their report , “ To the best of our knowledge , all systemd-based Linux distributions are vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , but SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 , openSUSE Leap 15.0 , and Fedora 28 and 29 are not exploitable because their user space is compiled with GCC ’ s -fstack-clash-protection. ” The three bugs include two different memory corruption flaws ( CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 ) , and an out-of-bounds flaw ( CVE-2018-16866 ) . At first , the researchers accidentally discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-16864 while working on an exploit for a previously disclosed vulnerability , Mutagen Astronomy . Then , when they were busy on its PoC , they spotted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the other two bugs . “ We developed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a proof of concept for CVE-2018-16864 that gains eip control on i386… We developed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability an exploit for CVE-2018-16865 and CVE-2018-16866 that obtains a local root shell in 10 minutes on i386 and 70 minutes on amd64 , on average. ” Interestingly , the bugs had been around for quite a few years . For now , Red Hat has patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the bugs CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 . Whereas , Debian has fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability CVE-2018-16866 in the unstable systemd 240-1 release . Other distros will also supposedly release Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the fixes soon . In November 2018 , a Google researcher also highlighted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a critical flaw in Systemd that induced system crashes and hacks .

Vanilla Forums open source software suffers Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability from vulnerabilities that could let an attacker gain access to user accounts , carry out web-cache poisoning attacks , and in some instances , execute arbitrary code . Popular open source forum software suffers Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability from vulnerabilities that could let an attacker gain access to user accounts , carry out web-cache poisoning attacks , and in some instances , execute arbitrary code . Legal Hackers ‘ Dawid Golunski found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities , a host header injection and an unauthorized remote code execution vulnerability–in software which is developed by Vanilla Forums . Golunski reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the issues to Vanilla Forums in January and while a support team acknowledged his reports Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , he ’ s experienced five months of silence from the company since , something that prompted him to finally disclose Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities Thursday via his ExploitBox.io service . The researcher confirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the most recent , stable version ( 2.3 ) of Vanilla Forums . He presumes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability older versions of the forum software are also vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . When reached Thursday , Lincoln Russell , a senior developer at Vanilla Forums stressed the vulnerabilities , which are in the middle of being fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , only affect Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the company ’ s free and open source product . Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the most concerning vulnerability , the RCE ( CVE-2016-10033 ) stems from a PHPMailer vulnerability he disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability last December . An attacker could remotely exploit Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the same vulnerability in Vanilla Forums by sending a web request in which a payload is passed within the HOST header . Until a fix is pushed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability Golunski is encouraging users to preset the sender ’ s support email address to a static value to prevent the dynamic creation of an email address , or the use of the HOST header , as a temporary mitigation . Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the second issue , the host header injection vulnerability ( CVE-2016-10073 ) also affects Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability version 2.3 of the software . The issue stems from the fact that the forum software uses user-supplied HTTP HOST header when sending emails from the host on which the forum was installed . That means an attacker could use HTTP HOST header to set the email domain to an arbitrary host . It would require user interaction but if exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , it ’ s possible the bug could help an attacker intercept Attack.Databreach a password reset hash and gain access Attack.Databreach to a victim ’ s account . An attacker would have send Attack.Phishing the victim an email tricking Attack.Phishing them into clicking through a password reset link , he says . “ The resulting email will have the sender ’ s address set to noreply @ attackers_server . The password reset link will also contain the attacker ’ s server which could allow the attacker to intercept the hash if the victim user clicked on the malicious link , ” Golunski wrote Thursday . It ’ s possible the vulnerability could also lead to web-cache poisoning if the HOST header is used to form links in web responses Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . According to Russell , when Vanilla Forums responded to Golunski in January it told him the issue would take some time to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability due to the “ complexity of unwinding the use of this server variable without breaking the myriad scenarios it can be used for in open source environments. ” Golunski hinted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability at the vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums back in December but didn ’ t name the software . When he disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the initial PHPMailer bug the researcher mentioned that he had developed an unauthenticated RCE exploit for “ a popular open-source application ( deployed on the Internet on more than a million servers ) as a PoC for real-world exploitation. ” Both the Vanilla Forums vulnerabilities and a similar RCE vulnerability in WordPress 4.6 Golunski disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability last week both relate to PHPMailer and PHP mail ( ) function injection . “ The exploits and techniques prove that these type of vulnerabilities could be exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by unauthenticated attackers via server headers such as HOST header that may be used internally by a vulnerable application to dynamically create a sender address , ” Golunski told Threatpost Thursday , “ This adds to the originally presented attack surface of contact forms that take user input including From/Sender address . ”

How is it possible for users to lose hundreds of dollars in anomalous online bank transfers when all of their gadgets have security software installed ? Last year , user Y , who is based in Brazil , lost R $ 600 ( US $ 191.02 , as of January 30 , 2017 ) as a side effect of information theft Attack.Databreach . Upon discovering this , Y immediately called an IT technician to find the root cause . But since no malware was found in the devices connected to the network , he then reviewed the home router settings . What he found was interesting : even though the home router did not expose any remote management interface to the internet , the DNS settings were still modified . In another case , user X noticed R $ 3,000 ( US $ 955.11 , as of January 30 , 2017 ) was deducted from her account last January 2016 . Her home router was also infected with a malicious DNS-changing malware . Routers often have unsecure configurations that make them susceptible to malware attacks similar to the real-world cases we presented above Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . For one , security flaws exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the operating system , firmware , and web applications of routers . Attackers can simply use these vulnerabilities as entry points to further compromise the home network . Web-based scripts are an effective tactic to infiltrate routers .

A series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a popular web-based SCADA system made by Honeywell that make it easy to expose passwords and in turn , give attackers a foothold into the vulnerable network . The flaws exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability some versions of Honeywell ’ s XL Web II controllers , systems deployed across the critical infrastructure sector , including wastewater , energy , and manufacturing companies . An advisory from the Department of Homeland Security ’ s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ( ICS-CERT ) warned about Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities Thursday . The company has developed a fix , version 3.04.05.05 , to address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the issues but users have to call their local Honeywell Building Solutions branch to receive Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the update , according to the company . The controllers suffer from five vulnerabilities in total but the scariest one might be the fact that passwords for the controllers are stored in clear text . Furthermore , if attackers wanted to , they could disclose Attack.Databreach that password simply by accessing a particular URL . An attacker could also carry out a path traversal attack by accessing a specific URL , open and change some parameters by accessing a particular URL , or establish a new user session . The problem with starting a new user session is that the controllers didn ’ t invalidate any existing session identifier , something that could have made it easier for an attacker to steal any active authenticated sessions . Maxim Rupp , an independent security researcher based in Germany , dug up Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bugs and teased them on Twitter at the beginning of January . Rupp has identified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability bugs in Honeywell equipment before . Two years ago he discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a pair of vulnerabilities in Tuxedo Touch , a home automation controller made by the company , that could have let an attacker unlock a house ’ s doors or modify its climate controls . It ’ s unclear how widespread the usage of Honeywell ’ s XL Web II controllers is . While Honeywell is a US-based company , according to ICS-CERT ’ s advisory the majority of the affected products are used in Europe and the Middle East . When reached on Friday , a spokesperson for Honeywell confirmed that the affected controllers are used in Europe and the Middle East . The company also stressed that the vulnerabilities were patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in September 2016 after they were reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in August .

A series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a popular web-based SCADA system made by Honeywell that make it easy to expose passwords and in turn , give attackers a foothold into the vulnerable network . The flaws exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability some versions of Honeywell ’ s XL Web II controllers , systems deployed across the critical infrastructure sector , including wastewater , energy , and manufacturing companies . An advisory from the Department of Homeland Security ’ s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ( ICS-CERT ) warned about Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities Thursday . The company has developed a fix , version 3.04.05.05 , to address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the issues but users have to call their local Honeywell Building Solutions branch to receive Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the update , according to the company . The controllers suffer from five vulnerabilities in total but the scariest one might be the fact that passwords for the controllers are stored in clear text . Furthermore , if attackers wanted to , they could disclose Attack.Databreach that password simply by accessing a particular URL . An attacker could also carry out a path traversal attack by accessing a specific URL , open and change some parameters by accessing a particular URL , or establish a new user session . The problem with starting a new user session is that the controllers didn ’ t invalidate any existing session identifier , something that could have made it easier for an attacker to steal any active authenticated sessions . Maxim Rupp , an independent security researcher based in Germany , dug up Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bugs and teased them on Twitter at the beginning of January . Rupp has identified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability bugs in Honeywell equipment before . Two years ago he discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a pair of vulnerabilities in Tuxedo Touch , a home automation controller made by the company , that could have let an attacker unlock a house ’ s doors or modify its climate controls . It ’ s unclear how widespread the usage of Honeywell ’ s XL Web II controllers is . While Honeywell is a US-based company , according to ICS-CERT ’ s advisory the majority of the affected products are used in Europe and the Middle East . When reached on Friday , a spokesperson for Honeywell confirmed that the affected controllers are used in Europe and the Middle East . The company also stressed that the vulnerabilities were patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in September 2016 after they were reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in August .