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 .

Apple has issued Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability an update to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a number of issues in macOS Mojave leading to arbitrary code execution , the ability to read restricted memory and access local users Apple IDs among others . All were patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability with the release of macOS Mojave 10.14 on Sept 24. applePatchapplePatch The first issue , CVE-2018-5383 , impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a number of iMac , MacBook Air , Mac Pro and Mac mini server products . An input validation issue existed in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Bluetooth was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability that could have allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to intercept Bluetooth traffic . The App Store also patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability CVE-2018-4324 , an issue in the handling of Apple ID that could have been exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by a malicious application that would expose the Apple ID of the computer ’ s owner . Also , a validation issue that could expose Apple IDs was in Auto Unlock that was patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability with improved validation of the process entitlement . CVE-2018-4353 impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the application firewall where a sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions , but this was addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by adding additional restrictions . In Crash Reporter a validation issue , CVE-2018-4333 , was addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability that if exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability would allow a malicious application to read restricted memory . Two Kernel problems were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , CVE-2018-4336 and CVE-2018-4344 , that could let an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges . The final problem , CVE-2016-1777 , effected Security where an attacker could exploit a weaknesses in the RC4 cryptographic algorithm and was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by removing RC4 .

Apple has issued Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability an update to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a number of issues in macOS Mojave leading to arbitrary code execution , the ability to read restricted memory and access local users Apple IDs among others . All were patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability with the release of macOS Mojave 10.14 on Sept 24. applePatchapplePatch The first issue , CVE-2018-5383 , impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a number of iMac , MacBook Air , Mac Pro and Mac mini server products . An input validation issue existed in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Bluetooth was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability that could have allowed an attacker in a privileged network position to intercept Bluetooth traffic . The App Store also patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability CVE-2018-4324 , an issue in the handling of Apple ID that could have been exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by a malicious application that would expose the Apple ID of the computer ’ s owner . Also , a validation issue that could expose Apple IDs was in Auto Unlock that was patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability with improved validation of the process entitlement . CVE-2018-4353 impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the application firewall where a sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions , but this was addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by adding additional restrictions . In Crash Reporter a validation issue , CVE-2018-4333 , was addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability that if exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability would allow a malicious application to read restricted memory . Two Kernel problems were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , CVE-2018-4336 and CVE-2018-4344 , that could let an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges . The final problem , CVE-2016-1777 , effected Security where an attacker could exploit a weaknesses in the RC4 cryptographic algorithm and was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by removing RC4 .

A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes open-source system for handling containerized applications can enable an attacker to gain full administrator privileges on Kubernetes compute nodes . Kubernetes makes it easier to manage a container environment by organizing application containers into pods , nodes ( physical or virtual machines ) and clusters . Multiple nodes form a cluster , managed by a master that coordinates cluster-related activities like scaling , scheduling , or updating apps . Each node has an agent called Kubelet that facilitates communication with the Kubernetes master via the API . The number of nodes available in a Kubernetes system can be hundreds and even thousands . Pulling this off is easy on default configurations , where `` all users ( authenticated and unauthenticated ) are allowed to perform discovery API calls that allow this escalation , '' says Jordan Liggitt , staff software engineer at Google . The security bug was discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Darren Shepherd , co-founder of Rancher Labs company that provides the Kubernetes-as-a-Service solution called Rancher . Now tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-1002105 , the flaw is critical , with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System ( CVSS ) score of 9.8 out of 10 . According to the latest version of the vulnerability severity calculator , exploiting the security glitch has low difficulty and does not require user interaction . Red Hat 's OpenShift Container Platform uses Kubernetes for orchestrating and managing containers is also impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by the vulnerability . In an advisory on the matter , the company explains that the flaw can be used in two ways against its products . One involves a normal user with 'exec , ' 'attach , ' or 'portforward ' rights over a Kubernetes pod ( a group of one or more containers that share storage and network resources ) ; they can escalate their privileges to cluster-admin level and execute any process in a container . The second attack method exploits the API extension feature used by ‘ metrics-server ’ and ‘ servicecatalog ’ in OpenShift Container Platform , OpenShift Online , and Dedicated . No privileges are required and an unauthenticated user can get admin rights to any API extension deployed to the cluster . `` Cluster-admin access to ‘ servicecatalog ’ allows creation of service brokers in any namespace and on any node , '' the advisory details . The problem has been addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in the latest Kubernetes revisions : v1.10.11 , v1.11.5 , v1.12.3 , and v1.13.0-rc.1 . Kubernetes releases prior to these along with the products and services based on them are affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by CVE-2018-1002105 . Red Hat released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability patches for the OpenShift family of containerization software ( OpenShift Container Platform , OpenShift Online , and OpenShift Dedicated ) and users received Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability service updates they can install at their earliest convenience . The software company warns that a malicious actor could exploit the vulnerability to steal Attack.Databreach data or inject malicious code , as well as `` bring down production applications and services from within an organization ’ s firewall . ''

In a blog post , Leonov explained Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that he reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the issue to Facebook in October 2016 according to which the ImageMagick flaw was still active and impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Facebook . He also provided Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability Facebook security team with an in-depth proof of concept ( PoC ) who patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the issue and awarded him a sum of $ 40,000 through the Bugcrowd payment system . “ Once upon a time on Saturday in October I was testing some big service ( not Facebook ) when some redirect followed me on Facebook . “ I am glad to be the one of those who broke the Facebook , ” said Leonov . To confirm the payment , The Register has contacted Facebook .

While working on something completely unrelated , Google security researcher , Tavis Ormandy , recently discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that Cloudflare was leaking Attack.Databreach a wide range of sensitive information , which could have included everything from cookies and tokens , to credentials . Cloudflare moved quickly to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability things , but their postmortem downplays the risk to customers , Ormandy said . The problem on Cloudflare 's side , which impacted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability big brands like Uber , Fitbit , 1Password , and OKCupid , was a memory leak . The flaw resulted in the exposure of `` HTTP cookies , authentication tokens , HTTP POST bodies , and other sensitive data , '' Cloudflare said . About an hour after being alerted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Ormandy , Cloudflare disabled three features on its platform ; email obfuscation , Server-side Excludes and Automatic HTTPS Rewrites , as they were using the broken HTML parser chain determined to be the cause of the problem .