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The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. "The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous C2, anti-analysis, registry persistence, and modular

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### Summary A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the SM2 PKE decryption path where an invalid elliptic-curve point (C1) is decoded and the resulting value is unwrapped without checking. Specifically, `AffinePoint::from_encoded_point(&encoded_c1)` may return a `None`/`CtOption::None` when the supplied coordinates are syntactically valid but do not lie on the SM2 curve. The calling code previously used `.unwrap()`, causing a panic when presented with such input. ### Affected Component / Versions - File: `src/pke/decrypting.rs` - Function: internal `decrypt()` (invoked by `DecryptingKey::decrypt*` methods) - Affected releases: - sm2 0.14.0-rc.0 (https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-rc.0) - sm2 0.14.0-pre.0 (https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-pre.0) ### Details The library decodes the C1 field (an EC point) as an `EncodedPoint` and then converts it to an `AffinePoint` using `AffinePoint::from_encoded_point(&encoded_c1)`. That conversion returns a `CtOption<Affin...

#Fickling's assessment Fickling started emitting AST nodes for builtins imports in order to match them during analysis (https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/9f309ab834797f280cb5143a2f6f987579fa7cdf). # Original report ### Summary Fickling works by Pickle bytecode --> AST --> Security analysis However while going from bytecode to AST, some import nodes are removed which blinds the security analysis fickling/fickling/fickle.py ```python def run(self, interpreter: Interpreter): module, attr = self.module, self.attr if module in ("__builtin__", "__builtins__", "builtins"): # no need to emit an import for builtins! pass else: alias = ast.alias(attr) interpreter.module_body.append(ast.ImportFrom(module=module, names=[alias], level=0)) interpreter.stack.append(ast.Name(attr, ast.Load())) def encode(self) -> bytes: return f"c{self.module}\n{self.attr}\n".encode() ``` Here we see that...

### Summary A critical vulnerability exists in the SM2 Public Key Encryption (PKE) implementation where the ephemeral nonce `k` is generated with severely reduced entropy. A unit mismatch error causes the nonce generation function to request only 32 bits of randomness instead of the expected 256 bits. This reduces the security of the encryption from a 128-bit level to a trivial 16-bit level, allowing a practical attack to recover the nonce `k` and decrypt any ciphertext **given only the public key and ciphertext**. ### Affected Versions - sm2 0.14.0-rc.0 (https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-rc.0) - sm2 0.14.0-pre.0 (https://crates.io/crates/sm2/0.14.0-pre.0) This vulnerability is introduced in commit: [Commit 4781762](https://github.com/RustCrypto/elliptic-curves/commit/4781762f23ff22ab34763410f648128055c93731) on Sep 6, 2024, which is over a year ago. ### Details The root cause of this vulnerability is a unit mismatch in the `encrypt` function located in `sm2/src/pke/encrypt...

Deepfakes are becoming more realistic and more popular. Luckily, defenders are still ahead in the arms race.

#Fickling's assessment `ctypes`, `importlib`, `runpy`, `code` and `multiprocessing` were added the list of unsafe imports (https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/9a2b3f89bd0598b528d62c10a64c1986fcb09f66, https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/eb299b453342f1931c787bcb3bc33f3a03a173f9, https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/29d5545e74b07766892c1f0461b801afccee4f91, https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/b793563e60a5e039c5837b09d7f4f6b92e6040d1, https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/b793563e60a5e039c5837b09d7f4f6b92e6040d1). # Original report ## Summary The `unsafe_imports()` method in Fickling's static analyzer fails to flag several high-risk Python modules that can be used for arbitrary code execution. Malicious pickles importing these modules will not be detected as unsafe, allowing attackers to bypass Fickling's primary static safety checks. ## Details In `fickling/fickle.py` lines 866-884, the `unsafe_imports()` method checks imported m...