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Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform.   VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and its vCenter software allows users to manage an entire environment of VMs. The vulnerability Talos discovered is a post-authentication Java deserialization issue that could corrupt the software in a way that could allow an attacker to exploit arbitrary code on the target machine. TALOS-2022-1587 (CVE-2022-31680) is triggered if an adversary sends a specially crafted HTTP request to a targeted machine. The attacker would first have to log in with legitimate credentials to vCenter to be successful.  Cisco Talos worked with VMware to ensure that this issue is resolved and an update is available for affected customers, all in adherence to Cisco’s vulnerability disclosure policy.  Users are enc...

VMware ESXi contains a null-pointer deference vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may create a denial of service condition on the host.

A buffer underflow vulnerability exists in the way Hword of Hancom Office 2020 version 11.0.0.5357 parses XML-based office files. A specially-crafted malformed file can cause memory corruption by using memory before buffer start, which can lead to code execution. A victim would need to access a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in Hancom Office 2020.   Hancom Office is a popular software collection among South Korean users that offers similar products to Microsoft Office, such as word processing and spreadsheet creation and management.   TALOS-2022-1574 (CVE-2022-33896) exists in the way the Hword word processing software processes XML files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking the user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering a memory corruption error on the software and potentially leading to remote code execution on the targeted machine.    Cisco Talos worked with Hancom to ensure that this issue is resolved and an update is available for affected customers, all in adherence to Cisco’s vulnerability disclosure policy.  Users are encouraged to update these affected products as soon as possible: Hancom Offic...

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  As I wrote about last week, I’ve been diving a lot into apps’ privacy policies recently. And I was recently made aware of a new type of app I never knew existed — family trackers.  There are countless mobile apps for parents to track their children or other family members based on their location, phone usage, and even driving speed. As an anxious soon-to-be-parent, this sounds intriguing to me — it’d be a supped-up version of Find my Friends on Apple devices so I’d never have to ask my teenager (granted, I’m many years away from being at that stage of my life) when they were coming home or where they were.  Just as with all other types of mobile apps, there are pitfalls, though.   Life360, one of the most popular of these types of apps and even tells users what their maximum driving speed was on a given trip, was found in December 2021 to be selling precise location data on its users, potentia...

Any time we welcome this software and hardware into our homes and on our devices, it’s worth considering what sacrifices we might be making elsewhere.

A U.S. federal court jury has found former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators and attempting to cover up the incident. Sullivan has been convicted on two counts: One for obstructing justice by not reporting the incident and another for misprision. He faces a maximum of five years in prison for the

Cisco Talos examined several frequently used code repositories. We looked specifically at the security afforded to developer accounts, and how difficult it would be for an attacker to take over a developer account.

Cisco Talos examined several frequently used code repositories. We looked specifically at the security afforded to developer accounts, and how difficult it would be for an attacker to take over a developer account.

By Jaeson Schultz. Over the past several years, high-profile software supply chain attacks have increased in frequency. These attacks can be difficult to detect and source code repositories became a key focus of this research. Developer account takeovers present a substantial risk to the software supply chain because attackers who successfully compromise a developer account could conceal malicious code in software packages used by others. Talos analyzed several of the major software repositories to assess the level of developer account security, focusing specifically on whether developer accounts could be recovered by re-registering expired domain names and triggering password resets. Many software repositories have already begun taking steps to enhance the security of developer accounts. Talos has identified additional areas where the security of developer accounts could be improved. Talos worked with vulnerable repositories to resolve issues that we found. Software supply chain att...