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February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW

Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting vulnerabilities. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239140 Let’s start with my open source projects. Vulremi A simple vulnerability remediation utility, Vulremi, now has a logo and […]

Alexander V. Leonov
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Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting vulnerabilities.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239140

Let’s start with my open source projects.

A simple vulnerability remediation utility, Vulremi, now has a logo and a repository on GitHub.

The logo features a long-handled farming weeding tool and a special pushing stick from the International Gladiators TV show from the 90s.

The weeding tool symbolizes the routine but necessary work of describing IT assets and establishing regular patching agreements. The push stick symbolizes efforts to motivate IT to comply with asset patching agreements.

So far, this project has a description in three posts in Russian [1, 2, 3] and an example of an IT asset description.

Vuldetta

I also worked on the Vuldetta project – an API for detecting vulnerabilities based on a list of Linux packages.

I’m going to use it as the “brains” for my Scanvus vulnerability scanner. In the same way as the commercial Vulners Linux API or Vulns.io API are used now.

I’m currently researching the structure of Ubuntu OVAL content to turn it into something easier to work with.

Positive Technologies****VM Education

In my day job at Positive Technologies, I was involved in preparations for the relaunch of the Vulnerability Management training course on March 24th. The course content has been expanded and improved.

I recorded 2 new video modules for it:

🔹 Building a Vulnerability Management system based on open source and freeware components. 🆓 What tools can be used to detect and prioritize vulnerabilities, as well as visualize the state of the infrastructure. What are the pitfalls there? 🪨

🔹 Network perimeter scanning. Starting from understanding what an organization’s perimeter consists of, to how to organize regular scanning and vulnerability remediation. 📊

Digests of trending vulnerabilities

At Positive Technologies, we also began publishing monthly digests on trending vulnerabilities. We have released the January and February digests. The February digest will also be released in video format.

Vulnerabilities

Now let’s talk about the interesting vulnerabilities of February.

Ivanti

The most hyped vulnerabilities of February on a global scale were 3 vulnerabilities in the products Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure and Ivanti Neurons for ZTA (CVE-2024-21887, CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21893), which allow attackers to compromise hardware and virtual appliances.

These solutions require access from the Internet to operate, so it is not surprising that these Ivanti solutions are good targets for attackers.

Public exploits are available for all three vulnerabilities and there are signs of active exploitation in the wild. Exploitation also includes the installation of backdoors such as DSLog and GLASSTOKEN.

A recent study by Eclypsium showed that Ivanti devices run on an outdated, unsupported version of the Linux distribution CentOS 6.4 and use outdated packages with many critical vulnerabilities.

But there’s good news. Despite the fact that Ivanti is a very popular vendor on a global scale, it is practically not represented in Russia.

This is also true for ScreenConnect, a remote desktop solution developed by ConnectWise, which had a critical exploitable RCE (CVE-2024-1708, CVE-2024-1709) in February.

Fortinet

Also in February, a critical Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability was released in Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy (CVE-2024-21762). According to the vendor, the vulnerability could already be exploited in hacker attacks.

Fortinet previously reported that attackers used a similar FortiOS vulnerability to deploy the COATHANGER remote access Trojan.

Cisco

The Cisco ASA Information Disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2020-3259), discovered by Positive Technologies researchers 4 years ago, in May 2020, is used by the Akira ransomware to gain initial access.

The forensics team of the Swedish company Truesec reported this on January 29. They found that in at least 6 incidents related to the Akira ransomware, the entry point was Cisco AnyConnect with the Information Disclosure vulnerability CVE-2020-3259. On February 15, the vulnerability was added to CISA KEV.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

As usual, I analyzed Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities using my open source Vulristics project. The February Microsoft Patch Tuesday contained 105 (104) vulnerabilities (this includes 32 that have appeared since January).

Microsoft has changed the descriptions for several vulnerabilities, so in the end the following vulnerabilities show signs of exploitation in the wild:

🔻Two of them are related to Bypassing Security Features in Windows SmartScreen (CVE-2024-21351) and Internet Shortcut Files (CVE-2024-21412). In both cases, the point is that the user can open a downloaded malicious file and this dangerous activity will not be blocked by the Windows Defender protection mechanism.
🔻 Two more vulnerabilities are related to email and NTLM Relay attacks: Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-21410) and Arbitrary Code Execution in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21413). As for the Outlook vulnerability, Microsoft marked this vulnerability as being exploited in the wild, but then they changed their decision and removed the mark. But for this vulnerability there is a CheckPoint article with a detailed technical description and exploit code that allows an attacker to gain access to the victim’s computer after clicking on a link in an incoming email message in Outlook.
🔻 At the very end of February, a sign of exploitation in the wild appeared for the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-21338). Researchers from Avast released a write-up in which they claim that the vulnerability was exploited by the Lazarus group.
🔻And finally, one Chromium vulnerability that is actively exploited in the wild. This is Memory Corruption – Chromium (CVE-2024-0519).

Of the rest, the following can be noted:

🔹 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-21345, CVE-2024-21371)
🔹 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21378)

🗒 February Microsoft Patch Tuesday Vulristics report

Linux Patch Wednesday

As usual, I analyzed Linux Patch Wednesday vulnerabilities using Vulristics. Linux vulnerabilities that started being patched last month. 149 vulnerabilities.

Among them there are no vulnerabilities with the sign of active exploitation in the wild. There are 20 vulnerabilities with PoCs/exploits. At first glance, all the high-profile vulnerabilities of the month are in place:

🔻 Elevation of Privilege – GNU C Library (CVE-2023-6246). This is another glibc vulnerability that Qualys found.
🔻 Information Disclosure – runc (CVE-2024-21626). This is a container breakout vulnerability.
🔻 Denial of Service – dnsmasq (CVE-2023-50387). This is about the ‘KeyTrap’ attack on DNSSEC.
🔻 Authentication Bypass – Sudo (CVE-2023-42465). The only publication about this vulnerability was in 2023, but this vulnerability began to be patched in RPM-based distributions in February 2024.

🗒 February Linux Patch Wednesday Vulristics Report

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6619-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6619-1 - Rory McNamara discovered that runC did not properly manage internal file descriptor while managing containers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or bypass container restrictions.

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK, CHAINLINE, FRAMESTING, and a variant of LIGHTWIRE. "CHAINLINE is a Python web shell backdoor that is

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK, CHAINLINE, FRAMESTING, and a variant of LIGHTWIRE. "CHAINLINE is a Python web shell backdoor that is

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK, CHAINLINE, FRAMESTING, and a variant of LIGHTWIRE. "CHAINLINE is a Python web shell backdoor that is

GHSA-xr7r-f8xq-vfvv: runc vulnerable to container breakout through process.cwd trickery and leaked fds

### Impact In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from `runc exec`) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace, allowing for a container escape by giving access to the host filesystem ("attack 2"). The same attack could be used by a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through `runc run` ("attack 1"). Variants of attacks 1 and 2 could be also be used to overwrite semi-arbitrary host binaries, allowing for complete container escapes ("attack 3a" and "attack 3b"). Strictly speaking, while attack 3a is the most severe from a CVSS perspective, attacks 2 and 3b are arguably more dangerous in practice because they allow for a breakout from inside a container as opposed to requiring a user execute a malicious image. The reason attacks 1 and 3a are scored higher is because being able to socially engineer users is treated as a given for UI:R ...

RunC Flaws Enable Container Escapes, Granting Attackers Host Access

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors to escape the bounds of the container and stage follow-on attacks. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-21626, CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, and CVE-2024-23653, have been collectively dubbed Leaky Vessels by cybersecurity vendor Snyk. "These container

Ivanti VPN Flaws Exploited to Spread KrustyLoader Malware

By Deeba Ahmed The Ivanti VPN vulnerabilities have plunged into a black hole. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ivanti VPN Flaws Exploited to Spread KrustyLoader Malware

Ivanti VPN Flaws Exploited to Spread KrustyLoader Malware

By Deeba Ahmed The Ivanti VPN vulnerabilities have plunged into a black hole. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ivanti VPN Flaws Exploited to Spread KrustyLoader Malware

glibc syslog() Heap-Based Buffer Overflow

Qualys discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the GNU C Library's __vsyslog_internal() function, which is called by both syslog() and vsyslog(). This vulnerability was introduced in glibc 2.37 (in August 2022).

glibc qsort() Out-Of-Bounds Read / Write

Qualys discovered a memory corruption in the glibc's qsort() function, due to a missing bounds check. To be vulnerable, a program must call qsort() with a nontransitive comparison function (a function cmp(int a, int b) that returns (a - b), for example) and with a large number of attacker-controlled elements (to cause a malloc() failure inside qsort()). They have not tried to find such a vulnerable program in the real world. All glibc versions from at least September 1992 (glibc 1.04) to the current release (glibc 2.38) are affected, but the glibc's developers have independently discovered and patched this memory corruption in the master branch (commit b9390ba, "stdlib: Fix array bounds protection in insertion sort phase of qsort") during a recent refactoring of qsort().

Debian Security Advisory 5611-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5611-1 - The Qualys Research Labs discovered several vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library's __vsyslog_internal() function (called by syslog() and vsyslog()). A heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2023-6246), an off-by-one heap overflow (CVE-2023-6779) and an integer overflow (CVE-2023-6780) can be exploited for privilege escalation or denial of service.

Alert: Ivanti Discloses 2 New Zero-Day Flaws, One Under Active Exploitation

Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-21888 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A privilege escalation vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows

Alert: Ivanti Discloses 2 New Zero-Day Flaws, One Under Active Exploitation

Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-21888 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A privilege escalation vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows

Alert: Ivanti Discloses 2 New Zero-Day Flaws, One Under Active Exploitation

Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-21888 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A privilege escalation vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows

Critical Flaws Found in GNU C Library, Major Linux Distros at Risk

By Deeba Ahmed Patch Now or Pay Later: Qsort Flaw Leaves Millions of Linux Systems Exposed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical Flaws Found in GNU C Library, Major Linux Distros at Risk

New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros

Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc). Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, which is used by syslog() and vsyslog() for system logging purposes. It's said to have been accidentally

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-29

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-29 - A vulnerability has been discovered in sudo which can lead to execution manipulation through rowhammer-style memory manipulation. Versions less than 1.9.15_p2 are affected.

Ivanti Connect Secure Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This Metasploit module chains an authentication bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability to exploit vulnerable instances of either Ivanti Connect Secure or Ivanti Policy Secure, to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. All currently supported versions 9.x and 22.x prior to the vendor mitigation are vulnerable. It is unknown if unsupported versions 8.x and below are also vulnerable.

Ivanti Connect Secure Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This Metasploit module chains an authentication bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability to exploit vulnerable instances of either Ivanti Connect Secure or Ivanti Policy Secure, to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. All currently supported versions 9.x and 22.x prior to the vendor mitigation are vulnerable. It is unknown if unsupported versions 8.x and below are also vulnerable.

CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The development came after the vulnerabilities – an authentication bypass

CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The development came after the vulnerabilities – an authentication bypass

Debian Security Advisory 5602-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5602-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure. An exploit for CVE-2024-0519 exists in the wild.

Update Chrome! Google patches actively exploited zero-day vulnerability

Google has issued a security update for the Chrome browser that includes a patch for one zero-day vulnerability.

Zero-Day Alert: Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds memory access in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, which can be weaponized by threat actors to trigger a crash. "By reading out-of-bounds memory, an attacker might be able to get secret values,

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices," Mandiant said in an

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices," Mandiant said in an