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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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  • CVE-2022-20119 (android) May 10, 2022
    In private_handle_t of mali_gralloc_buffer.h, there is a possible information disclosure due to uninitialized data. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-213170715References: N/A
  • CVE-2022-22013 (windows_10, windows_11, windows_7, windows_8.1, windows_server, windows_server_2008, windows_server_2012, windows_server_2016, windows_server_2019) May 10, 2022
    Windows LDAP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-22012, CVE-2022-22014, CVE-2022-29128, CVE-2022-29129, CVE-2022-29130, CVE-2022-29131, CVE-2022-29137, CVE-2022-29139, CVE-2022-29141.
  • CVE-2022-20120 (android) May 10, 2022
    Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-203213034References: N/A
  • CVE-2022-20117 (android) May 10, 2022
    In (TBD) of (TBD), there is a possible way to decrypt local data encrypted by the GSC due to improperly used crypto. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-217475903References: N/A
  • CVE-2022-22012 (windows_10, windows_11, windows_7, windows_8.1, windows_server, windows_server_2008, windows_server_2012, windows_server_2016, windows_server_2019) May 10, 2022
    Windows LDAP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-22013, CVE-2022-22014, CVE-2022-29128, CVE-2022-29129, CVE-2022-29130, CVE-2022-29131, CVE-2022-29137, CVE-2022-29139, CVE-2022-29141.
  • CVE-2022-20121 (android) May 10, 2022
    In getNodeValue of USCCDMPlugin.java, there is a possible disclosure of ICCID due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-212573046References: N/A
  • CVE-2022-22014 (windows_10, windows_11, windows_7, windows_8.1, windows_server, windows_server_2008, windows_server_2012, windows_server_2016, windows_server_2019) May 10, 2022
    Windows LDAP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-22012, CVE-2022-22013, CVE-2022-29128, CVE-2022-29129, CVE-2022-29130, CVE-2022-29131, CVE-2022-29137, CVE-2022-29139, CVE-2022-29141.
  • CVE-2022-20118 (android) May 10, 2022
    In ion_ioctl and related functions of ion.c, there is a possible use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-205707793References: N/A
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