Due to the far reaching implications , Security Researchers will typically submit Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability serious 0-day Windows exploits to Microsoft and give the company ample time to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the vulnerabilities before they can be used to create malware and do harm . A security researcher that goes by the Twitter handle SandboxEscaper , however , decided it would be a good idea to expose Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a 0-day threat to the world on Twitter , without forewarning Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Microsoft , and even linked to proof on concept code on GitHub that has since been verified as functional . The language in the original Tweet prevents me from directly embedding it here . SandboxEscaper essentially said Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , “ Here is the alpc bug as 0day ... I do n't * * * * ing care about life anymore . Neither do I ever again want to submit to MSFT anyway ... ” The official post on the CERT/CC website explains Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , “ The Microsoft Windows task scheduler SchRpcSetSecurity API contains Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a vulnerability in the handling of ALPC , which can allow a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges . We have confirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that the public exploit code works on 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 systems . We have also confirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability compatibility with 32-bit Windows 10 with minor modifications to the public exploit code . Compatibility with other Windows versions is possible with further modifications. ” At this point , Microsoft does not have a patch at the ready , but according to reports a fix will be coming Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in the next batch of patch Tuesday updates . Because the exploit requires the local execution of code , it doesn ’ t necessarily warrant an out-of-band update . However , with proof of concept code readily available , it ’ s possible nefarious individuals could trick less savvy users into running the code and gain full access to their systems . As always , never execute any files from unknown or untrusted sources.The bug lies in the Windows Task Scheduler ’ s Advanced Local Procedure Call , or ALPC , interface . It allows a local user to gain system level privileges and have free reign over the system to do whatever they want , including overwriting / modifying system files . Will Dormann of CERT/CC verified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the original exploit code works on a fully patched Windows 10 x64 installation and later modified the code to work on 32-bit systems as well .

A critical vulnerability in open source automation tool Jenkins could allow permission checks to be bypassed through the use of specially-crafted URLs . Jenkins uses the Stapler web framework for HTTP request handling , which uses reflection to dispatch incoming web requests to controller code . This means that any public methods that start with get and include string and integer parameters are exposed to the web server . Because this is a common naming convention , this has led to multiple internal Jenkins methods being inadvertently exposed . The precise impact of this isn ’ t clear . The advisory notes that code execution could be a possible outcome – though on closer inspection , this seems to be a worst-case scenario . “ To clarify , the vulnerability we addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability had nothing to do with arbitrary code execution , but was rather an issue discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by the Jenkins security team that allowed a small subset of existing Jenkins code to be invoked by a remote client , ” Daniel Beck , Jenkins security officer , told The Daily Swig in an email . “ While the known impact is pretty limited , we felt that the layer at which the vulnerability existed , and its potential warranted a higher score. ” These potential attacks include unauthenticated users being able to invalidate sessions when running with the built-in server , and users with overall/read permissions being able to create new user objects in memory . The advisory reads : “ Given the vast potential attack surface , we fully expect other attacks , that we are not currently aware of , to be possible on Jenkins releases that do not have this fix applied Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . “ This is reflected in the high score we assigned Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to this issue , rather than limiting the score to the impact through known issues. ” Beck added : “ Jenkins users should always keep their instances up to date . In this case , we released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability updates for two LTS lines simultaneously for the first time , so admins could apply Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the update without having to go through a major version jump . “ We strive to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability all security vulnerabilities in Jenkins and plugins in a timely manner. ” Reflection is also used by Apache Struts , via the OGNL library . Struts has suffered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a number of serious security flaws in recent years . In 2017 , a vulnerability in the framework was exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to expose Attack.Databreach the details of up to 148 million Equifax customers . Another flaw , revealed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in August 2018 , could lead to remote code execution . These issues underline the dangers of using reflection with untrusted data , and application architects would do well to avoid this unsafe practice .

Ciphr , a company which offers encrypted communications for BlackBerry 10 and Samsung Knox smartphones , claims that a rival firm are behind a data dump Attack.Databreach of its customers ' email addresses and their device 's IMEI numbers . A website displaying the alleged leaked data claims that `` all Ciphr emails/servers have been compromised Attack.Databreach . '' Two sources that use Ciphr on their phones told Motherboard the leak Attack.Databreach includes their information as well as the data of other users . Specifically , the website lists users ' email addresses and IMEI numbers , data which law enforcement can leverage to expose Attack.Databreach a user . In a message provided to Motherboard from one of its sources , the privacy platform says the data dump Attack.Databreach was not the result of a data breach Attack.Databreach . Instead Ciphr blames a rival company for the incident : `` Our rapid growth has caught the attention of competitors seeking to slow us down by way of slander , blocking and DDOS [ distributed denial of service attacks ] .... We were shocked that any company in this industry would release information to the public under any circumstance . '' Ciphr 's management explains in a blog post that a rogue reseller who was granted access to its sales systems gave the information to SkySecure , which makes custom Blackberry devices . The company goes on to note that most of the information included in the data dump Attack.Databreach was already expired . But it does say a few active users ' email addresses and IMEI numbers were included in the leak Attack.Databreach .