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Categories: News Tags: Augsut 2023 Tags: week in security A list of topics we covered in the week of August 14 to August 20 of 2023 (Read more...) The post A week in security (August 14 - August 20) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

TerraMaster NAS through 4.2.30 allows remote WAN attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via the raidtype and diskstring parameters for PHP Object Instantiation to the api.php?mobile/createRaid URI. (Shell metacharacters can be placed in raidtype because popen is used without any sanitization.) The credentials from CVE-2022-24990 exploitation can be used.

New research reveals the strategies hackers use to hide their malware distribution system, and companies are rushing to release mitigations for the “Downfall” processor vulnerability on Intel chips.

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that's engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to perform anti-bot and web traffic filtering checks to serve

Improper path handling in Obsidian desktop before 1.2.8 on Windows, Linux and macOS allows a crafted webpage to access local files and exfiltrate them to remote web servers via "app://local/<absolute-path>". This vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a malicious markdown file in Obsidian, or copies text from a malicious webpage and paste it into Obsidian.

DOM-based XSS in src/muya/lib/contentState/pasteCtrl.js in MarkText 0.17.1 and before on Windows, Linux and macOS allows arbitrary JavaScript code to run in the context of MarkText main window. This vulnerability can be exploited if a user copies text from a malicious webpage and paste it into MarkText.

Apache NiFi 1.21.0 through 1.23.0 support JDBC and JNDI JMS access in several Processors and Controller Services with connection URL validation that does not provide sufficient protection against crafted inputs. An authenticated and authorized user can bypass connection URL validation using custom input formatting. The resolution enhances connection URL validation and introduces validation for additional related properties. Upgrading to Apache NiFi 1.23.1 is the recommended mitigation.

### Impact Any user who can view `Invitation.WebHome` can execute arbitrary script macros including Groovy and Python macros that allow remote code execution including unrestricted read and write access to all wiki contents. This can be reproduced with the following steps: 1. Open the invitation application (Invitation.WebHome). 1. Set the subject to `{{cache}}{{groovy}}new File("/tmp/exploit.txt").withWriter { out -> out.println("Attacked from invitation!"); }{{/groovy}}{{/cache}}` 1. Click "Preview" ### Patches The vulnerability has been patched on XWiki 14.4.8, 15.2-rc-1, and 14.10.6. ### Workarounds The vulnerability can be patched manually by applying the [patch](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ff1d8a1790c6ee534c6a4478360a06efeb2d3591) on `Invitation.InvitationCommon` and `Invitation.InvitationConfig`. ### References - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20421 - https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/ff1d8a1790c6ee534c6a4478360a06efeb2d3591 #...

A vulnerability was found in rkhunter Rootkit Hunter 1.4.4/1.4.6. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file /var/log/rkhunter.log. The manipulation leads to sensitive information in log files. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-237516.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6301-1 - It was discovered that the netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate policies when parsing attributes in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate arguments to ioctl in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.