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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on October 29, 2024, targeting one of its customers, an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. The activity originated

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GHSA-c59p-wq67-24wx: Infinite loop and Blind SSRF found inside the Webfinger mechanism in @fedify/fedify

### Summary This vulnerability allows a user to maneuver the Webfinger mechanism to perform a GET request to any internal resource on any Host, Port, URL combination regardless of present security mechanisms, and forcing the victim’s server into an infinite loop causing Denial of Service. Moreover, this issue can also be maneuvered into performing a Blind SSRF attack. ### Details The Webfinger endpoint takes a remote domain for checking accounts as a feature, however, as per the ActivityPub spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#security-considerations), on the security considerations section at B.3, access to Localhost services should be prevented while running in production. The **lookupWebFinger** function, responsible for returning an actor handler for received actor objects from a remote server, can be abused to perform a Denial of Service (DoS) and Blind SSRF attacks while attempting to resolve a malicious actor’s object. On Fedify, two client-facing functions implement the *...

Mirai Botnet Spinoffs Unleash Global Wave of DDoS Attacks

Two separate campaigns are targeting flaws in various IoT devices globally, with the goal of compromising them and propagating malware worldwide.

Tunneling Flaws Put VPNs, CDNs and Routers at Risk Globally

Millions of devices, including home routers, VPN servers, and CDNs are vulnerable to exploitation due to critical flaws…

GHSA-fh5r-crhr-qrrq: Apache CXF: Denial of Service vulnerability with temporary files

A potential denial of service vulnerability is present in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.10, 3.6.5 and 4.0.6. In some edge cases, the CachedOutputStream instances may not be closed and, if backed by temporary files, may fill up the file system (it applies to servers and clients).

Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) II

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 7.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable from adjacent network Standard: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) II Equipment: Collision Avoidance Systems Vulnerabilities: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision, External Control of System or Configuration Setting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to manipulate safety systems and cause a denial-of-service condition. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following revisions of TCAS II are affected: TCAS II: Versions 7.1 and prior 3.2 Vulnerability Overview 3.2.1 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision CWE-807 By utilizing software-defined radios and a custom low-latency processing pipeline, RF signals with spoofed location data can be transmitted to aircraft targets. This can lead to the appearance of fake aircraft on displays and potentially trigger undesired Resolution Advisories (RAs). CWE-2024-9310 has been...

GHSA-gp86-q8hg-fpxj: matrix-media-repo (MMR) allows a denial of service through memory exhaustion

### Impact MMR makes requests to other servers as part of normal operation, and these resource owners can return large amounts of JSON back to MMR for parsing. In parsing, MMR can consume large amounts of memory and exhaust available memory. ### Patches This is fixed in [MMR v1.3.8](https://github.com/t2bot/matrix-media-repo/releases/tag/v1.3.8). ### Workarounds Forward proxies can be configured to block requests to unsafe hosts. Alternatively, MMR processes can be configured with memory limits and auto-restart. Running multiple MMR processes concurrently can help ensure a restart does not overly impact users.

GHSA-vc2m-hw89-qjxf: matrix-media-repo (MMR) allows denial of service/high operating costs through unauthenticated downloads

### Impact MMR before version 1.3.5 is vulnerable to unbounded disk consumption, where an unauthenticated adversary can induce it to download and cache large amounts of remote media files. MMR's typical operating environment uses S3-like storage as a backend, with file-backed store as an alternative option. Instances using a file-backed store or those which self-host an S3 storage system are therefore vulnerable to a disk fill attack. Once the disk is full, authenticated users will be unable to upload new media, resulting in denial of service. For instances configured to use a cloud-based S3 storage option, this could result in high service fees instead of a denial of service. ### Patches MMR 1.3.5 introduces a new default-on "leaky bucket" rate limit to reduce the amount of data a user can request at a time. This does not fully address the issue, but does limit an unauthenticated user's ability to request large amounts of data. Operators should note that the leaky bucket impleme...

GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46: CVE-2024-5138: snapd snapctl auth bypass

### Impact A snap with prior permissions to create a mount entry on the host, such as firefox, normally uses the permission from one of the per-snap hook programs. A unprivileged users cannot normally trigger that behaviour by using `snap run --shell firefox` followed by `snapctl mount`, since snapd validates the requesting user identity (root or non-root). The issue allows unprivileged users to bypass that check by crafting a malicious command line vector which confuses snapd into thinking the help message is requested. Unprivileged user on a default installation of Ubuntu, where firefox is as provided as a snap, may cause a denial-of-service attack by repeatedly mounting hunspell database over and over and eventually exhausting system memory. Other attacks, reliant on the same underying mechanism (mount), are possible. In all cases the snap must be installed and grated permission to perform this action (by connecting an appropriate snap interface), which requires administrative pr...

GHSA-6fx8-h7jm-663j: parse-uri Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

An issue in parse-uri v1.0.9 allows attackers to cause a Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via a crafted URL.