#ssl

The Nemesis and ShinyHunters attackers scanned millions of IP addresses to find exploitable cloud-based flaws, though their operation ironically was discovered due to a cloud misconfiguration of their own doing.

### Summary If a `server.ca` file is present in `LXD_DIR` at LXD start up, LXD is in "PKI mode". In this mode, only TLS clients that have a CA-signed certificate should be able to authenticate with LXD. We have discovered that if a client that sends a non-CA signed certificate during the TLS handshake, that client is able to authenticate with LXD if their certificate is present in the trust store. - The LXD Go client (and by extension `lxc`) does not send non-CA signed certificates during the handshake. - A manual client (e.g. `cURL`) might send a non-CA signed certificate during the handshake. #### Versions affected LXD 4.0 and above. ### Details When PKI mode was added to LXD it was intended that all client and server certificates *must* be signed by the certificate authority (see https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/2070/commits/84d917bdcca6fe1e3191ce47f1597c7d094e1909). In PKI mode, the TLS listener configuration is altered to add the CA certificate but the `ClientAut...

### Summary If a `server.ca` file is present in `LXD_DIR` at LXD start up, LXD is in "PKI mode". In this mode, all clients must have certificates that have been signed by the CA. The LXD configuration option `core.trust_ca_certificates` defaults to `false`. This means that although the client certificate has been signed by the CA, LXD will additionally add the certificate to the trust store and verify it via mTLS. When a restricted certificate is added to the trust store in this mode, it's restrictions are not honoured, and the client has full access to LXD. ### Details When authorization was refactored to allow for generalisation (at the time for TLS, RBAC, and OpenFGA, see https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/12313), PKI mode did not account for the `core.trust_ca_certificates` configuration option. When this option is enabled, all CA-signed client certificates are given full access to LXD. [This cherry-pick from Incus](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/12513/commits/5cdc9a3...

Scammers set up call centers in luxury rentals to run bank help-desk fraud, as well as large-scale phishing campaigns, across at least 10 European countries, according to law enforcement.

`idna` 0.5.0 and earlier accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII output, which means that either ASCII labels or the empty root label can be masked such that they appear unequal without IDNA processing or when processed with a different implementation and equal when processed with `idna` 0.5.0 or earlier. Concretely, `example.org` and `xn--example-.org` become equal after processing by `idna` 0.5.0 or earlier. Also, `example.org.xn--` and `example.org.` become equal after processing by `idna` 0.5.0 or earlier. In applications using `idna` (but not in `idna` itself) this may be able to lead to privilege escalation when host name comparison is part of a privilege check and the behavior is combined with a client that resolves domains with such labels instead of treating them as errors that preclude DNS resolution / URL fetching and with the attacker managing to introduce a DNS entry (and TLS certificate) for an `xn--`-masked name that turns into the name of the target ...

New Fortress Information Security research shows 90% of software products used by critical infrastructure organizations contain code developed in China.

This is the first of a series of articles in which we will share how confidential computing (a set of hardware and software technologies designed to protect data in use) can be integrated into the Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Our goal is to enhance data security, so all data processed by workloads running on OpenShift can remain confidential at every stage.In this article, we will focus on the public cloud and examine how confidential computing with OpenShift can effectively address the trust issues associated with cloud environments. Confidential computing removes some of the barriers that high

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Proposals from Google and Apple drastically reduce the life cycle of certificates, which should mean more oversight — and hopefully better control.