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Tag: Bruteforce

Enumeration

Detecting SSH Username Enumeration

August 16, 2018 Security One comment

A very quick post about a new thread which has been started yesterday on the OSS-Security mailing list. It’s about a vulnerability affecting almost ALL SSH server version. Quoted from the initial message; It affects all operating systems, all OpenSSH versions (we went back as far as OpenSSH 2.3.0, released

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Analysis of WordPress Login Attempts

December 31, 2014 Security 6 comments

Waiting for the new year party, this is a last quick post in 2014! It’s not the first time that I see a peak of rogue authentication requests against some of the WordPress websites. But for a while, there is a constant flood of IP addresses trying to bruteforce the WordPress login

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Post-Analysis of My WordPress Bruteforce Attack

July 11, 2013 Security 3 comments

A few days weeks ago, I wrote a blog post (link) about a (unsuccessful) WordPress bruteforce attack agains this site. I captured the attackers’ traffic in a big pcap file. It was a good opportunity to perform a quick analysis to try to extract some statistics. Here follow more details

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Bruteforcing SSH Known_Hosts Files

November 3, 2010 Pentesting, Security, Software, Unix 14 comments

OpenSSH is a common tool for most of network and system administrators. It is used daily to open remote sessions on hosts to perform administrative tasks. But, it is also used to automate tasks between trusted hosts. Based on public/private key pairs, hosts can exchange data or execute commands via

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RSS NVD Vulnerabilities Feed

  • CVE-2019-25053 (sage_frp_1000) January 27, 2023
    A path traversal vulnerability exists in Sage FRP 1000 before November 2019. This allows remote unauthenticated attackers to access files outside of the web tree via a crafted URL.
  • CVE-2021-41231 (magento) January 27, 2023
    OpenMage LTS is an e-commerce platform. Prior to versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19, an administrator with the permissions to upload files via DataFlow and to create products was able to execute arbitrary code via the convert profile. Versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19 contain a patch for this issue.
  • CVE-2021-41143 (magento) January 27, 2023
    OpenMage LTS is an e-commerce platform. Prior to versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19, Magento admin users with access to the customer media could execute code on the server. Versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19 contain a patch for this issue.
  • CVE-2021-41144 (magento) January 27, 2023
    OpenMage LTS is an e-commerce platform. Prior to versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19, a layout block was able to bypass the block blacklist to execute remote code. Versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19 contain a patch for this issue.
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    OpenMage LTS is an e-commerce platform. Prior to versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19, Custom Layout enabled admin users to execute arbitrary commands via block methods. Versions 19.4.22 and 20.0.19 contain patches for this issue.
  • CVE-2020-36659 (apache::session::browsable, debian_linux) January 27, 2023
    In Apache::Session::Browseable before 1.3.6, validity of the X.509 certificate is not checked by default when connecting to remote LDAP backends, because the default configuration of the Net::LDAPS module for Perl is used. NOTE: this can, for example, be fixed in conjunction with the CVE-2020-16093 fix.
  • CVE-2020-36658 (apache::session::ldap, debian_linux) January 27, 2023
    In Apache::Session::LDAP before 0.5, validity of the X.509 certificate is not checked by default when connecting to remote LDAP backends, because the default configuration of the Net::LDAPS module for Perl is used. NOTE: this can, for example, be fixed in conjunction with the CVE-2020-16093 fix.
  • CVE-2022-22462 (security_verify_governance) January 26, 2023
    IBM Security Verify Governance, Identity Manager virtual appliance component 10.0.1 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 225078.
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