#auth

The service offered by Pusher provides "private" channels with an authentication mechanism that restricts subscription access. The decision on allowing subscriptions to private channels is delegated to customers, who implement an authentication endpoint. End-users request a token from this endpoint to join a specific channel. The token is an HMAC signature of the end-user's connection ID (socket_id) and the desired channel. The issue arises from a lack of validation in the libraries provided to customers. This vulnerability allows a malicious end-user to submit a malformed socket_id field, leading the customer to unknowingly sign a string. This signed string grants access to a different private channel than the one the end-user is ostensibly requesting. Consequently, a malicious end-user, with permission to subscribe to one private channel, can forge permission for any private channel owned by the same customer. Additionally, the HTTP API is secured by requiring a signature with each...

By Deeba Ahmed Multiple independent hacktivist groups are targeting India's elections with influence campaigns, Resecurity reports. The campaigns are designed to sway voters' opinions and undermine trust in the democratic process. Learn more about the tactics being used and how to protect yourself from disinformation. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacktivist Groups Target Indian Elections, Leak Personal Data, Says Report

Passbolt uses three cookies: a session cookie, a CSRF protection cookie and a cookie to keep track of the multiple-factor authentication process. Both the session cookie and the mfa cookie are properly set HTTP-only to prevent an attacker from retrieving the content of those cookies if they managed to exploit an XSS. The /auth/verify.json endpoint returns a JSON that, among other things, contains the cookies sent in the request. (similar to the TRACE HTTP method) An attacker who manages to leverage an XSS vulnerability could retrieve the session cookies of a legitimate user, effectively granting them the ability to retrieve information (such as encrypted password list or group list) without requiring user interaction. This vulnerability has a low impact, but no immediate risk due to it requiring the exploitation of an XSS vulnerability that has yet to be found.

Passbolt sends e-mail to users to warn them about different type of events such as the creation, modification or deletion of a password. Those e-mails may contain user-specified input, such as a password’s title or description. Passbolt does not escape the user’s input properly, resulting in the user being able to inject HTML code in an e-mail. An authenticated attacker could share a password containing an img HTML tag in its description with an other user to obtain information about their mail user-agent. This vulnerability has a very low impact. Most MUA do not embed remote images to protect their users’ privacy.

By Waqas New Android Malware "Antidot" disguises itself as Google Update to steal banking info. Don't click suspicious update links! Download apps only from Google Play & keep software updated. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Antidot Android Malware Poses as Google Update to Steal Funds

Having real-time protection is like having guards stationed all around your castle, ready to defend. Here's how it works.

By Waqas The Llama Drama vulnerability in the Llama-cpp-Python package exposes AI models to remote code execution (RCE) attacks, enabling attackers to steal data. Currently, over 6,000 models are affected by this vulnerability. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AI Python Package Flaw ‘Llama Drama’ Threatens Software Supply Chain

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-4qqq-9vqf-3h3f. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description In scrapy/scrapy, an issue was identified where the Authorization header is not removed during redirects that only change the scheme (e.g., HTTPS to HTTP) but remain within the same domain. This behavior contravenes the Fetch standard, which mandates the removal of Authorization headers in cross-origin requests when the scheme, host, or port changes. Consequently, when a redirect downgrades from HTTPS to HTTP, the Authorization header may be inadvertently exposed in plaintext, leading to potential sensitive information disclosure to unauthorized actors. The flaw is located in the _build_redirect_request function of the redirect middleware.

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Last week on ThreatDown: Stay safe!

Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.