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Categories: News Tags: bing Tags: microsoft Tags: azure Tags: takeover Tags: search Tags: results Tags: access We take a look at the BingBang flaw which allowed for search engine manipulation in Bing. (Read more...) The post "BingBang" flaw enabled altering of Bing search results, account takeover appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.0 until 1.13.1 are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack when using the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend. When configuring the MSSQL plugin, certain parameters are required to establish a connection (schema, database, and table) are not sanitized when passed to the user-provided MSSQL database. A privileged attacker with the ability to write arbitrary data to Vault's configuration may modify these parameters to execute a malicious SQL command when the Vault configuration is applied. This issue is fixed in versions 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.0 through 1.13.1 are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack when configuring the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend. When configuring the MSSQL plugin through the local, certain parameters are not sanitized when passed to the user-provided MSSQL database. An attacker may modify these parameters to execute a malicious SQL command. This issue is fixed in versions 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

By Habiba Rashid Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) labeled the spyware campaign as limited but highly targeted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google reveals spyware attack on Android, iOS, and Chrome

A vulnerability has been reported in the windows installer (MSI) built with InstallScript custom action. This vulnerability may allow privilege escalation when invoked ‘repair’ of the MSI which has an InstallScript custom action.

By Owais Sultan SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a software application developed by Microsoft that is used for configuring, managing,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Hide Tables in SQL Server Management Studio

Security analysts expect little improvement until at least the second half of the year.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5982-1 - It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5980-1 - It was discovered that the System V IPC implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle large shared memory counts. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs.

Summary Summary Microsoft has addressed an authorization misconfiguration for multi-tenant applications that use Azure AD, initially discovered by Wiz, and reported to Microsoft, that impacted a small number of our internal applications. The misconfiguration allowed external parties read and write access to the impacted applications. Microsoft immediately corrected the misconfiguration and added additional authorization checks to address the issue and confirmed that no unintended access had occurred.