Alexander V. Leonov

November Linux Patch Wednesday. I was happy in October that the number of vulnerabilities was gradually decreasing to an acceptable level, and in November I got a peak again. A total of 803 vulnerabilities. Of these, 567 are in the Linux Kernel. Kind of crazy. 😱 2 vulnerabilities in Chromium with signs of exploitation in […]

About the Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability. FortiManager is a centralized solution for configuring, enforcing policies, updating, and monitoring Fortinet network devices. 🔻 The vulnerability was released on October 23. A missing authentication for critical function in the FortiManager fgfmd (FortiGate-to-FortiManager) daemon allows remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via […]

About Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability. FortiManager is a centralized solution for configuring, enforcing policies, updating, and monitoring Fortinet network devices. 🔻 The vulnerability was released on October 23. A missing authentication for critical function in the FortiManager fgfmd (FortiGate-to-FortiManager) daemon allows remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially […]

On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30). This is actually visible in their own statistics. At the moment, there are 19860 identifiers in the backlog. This week, 1136 new CVEs were received, and they analyzed […]

Qualys released QScanner – a console vulnerability scanner for container images. Feed it an image and get a list of vulnerabilities (a la Trivy). It supports: “Local Runtimes: Scan images from Docker, Containerd, or Podman.Local Archives: Analyze Docker images or OCI layouts from local files.Remote Registries: Connect to AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, JFrog, GHCR, […]

November Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 125 CVEs, 35 of which were added since October MSPT. 2 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild: 🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039)🔻 Disclosure/Spoofing – NTLM Hash (CVE-2024-43451) No signs of exploitation, but with a private PoC of the exploit: 🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft […]

I transformed my English-language site avleonov.com. While my Russian-language site avleonov.ru was intended as a mirror of my Telegram channel @avleonovrus, I wasn’t sure how to move forward with the English-language site. 🤔 I’ve been running it since 2016. For a long time, it was my main VM blog. Since February 2020, I have been […]

About Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982) vulnerability. XWiki is a free open-source wiki platform. Its main feature is simplified extensibility. XWiki is often used in corporate environments as a replacement for commercial Wiki solutions (such as Atlassian Confluence). A vulnerability with CVSS Base Score 10, published on April 10, allows attackers to execute […]

What is known about the Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday? In fact, just that it is being exploited in the wild. There are no write-ups or public exploits yet. The Acknowledgements section in the Microsoft bulletin is empty. It is not clear who reported it and from […]

The severity of the Remote Code Execution – Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2024-38094) vulnerability has increased. It was fixed as part of the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday (July 9). SharePoint is a popular platform for corporate portals. According to the Microsoft bulletin, аn authenticated attacker with Site Owner permissions can use the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code […]