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Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server!

orange

 2024-08-09

This article explores architectural issues within the Apache HTTP Server, highlighting several technical debts within Httpd, including 3 types of Confusion Attacks, 9 new vulnerabilities, 20 exploitation techniques, and over 30 case studies. The content includes, but is not limited to: 1. How a single ? can bypass Httpd's built-in access control and authentication. 2. How unsafe RewriteRules can escape the Web Root and access the entire filesystem. 3. How to leverage a piece of code from 1996 to transform an XSS into RCE.

Security Alert: CVE-2024-4577 - PHP CGI Argument Injection Vulnerability

2024-06-06

While implementing PHP, the team did not notice the Best-Fit feature of encoding conversion within the Windows operating system. This oversight allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass the previous protection of CVE-2012-1823 by specific character sequences. Arbitrary code can be executed on remote PHP servers through the argument injection attack.

Your NAS is not your NAS !

angelboy

 2022-03-28

We have successfully found a serious vulnerability in the NAS, and successfully wrote a proof-of-concept, which proved that it can be exploited on many NAS such as Synology, QNAP and Asustor.

How I Hacked Facebook Again! Unauthenticated RCE on MobileIron MDM

orange

 2020-09-12

This post is about my research this March, which talks about how I found vulnerabilities on a leading Mobile Device Management product and bypassed several limitations to achieve unauthenticated RCE. All the vulnerabilities have been reported to the vendor and got fixed in June. After that, we kept monitoring large corporations to track the overall fixing progress and then found that Facebook didn't keep up with the patch for more than 2 weeks, so we dropped a shell on Facebook and reported to their Bug Bounty program!

Hacking Jenkins Part 2 - Abusing Meta Programming for Unauthenticated RCE!(EN)

orange

 2019-02-19

After Jenkins released the [Security Advisory](https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-12-05/#SECURITY-595) and fixed the dynamic routing vulnerability on 2018-12-05, I started to organize my notes in order to write this Hacking Jenkins series. While reviewing notes, I found another exploitation way on a gadget that I failed to exploit before! Therefore, the part two is the story for that! This is also one of my favorite exploits and is really worth reading :)

Exim Off-by-one RCE: Exploiting CVE-2018-6789 with Fully Mitigations Bypassing

meh

 2018-03-06

We reported an overflow vulnerability in the base64 decode function of Exim on 5 February, 2018, identified as CVE-2018-6789. This bug exists since the first commit of exim, hence ALL versions are affected. According to our research, it can be leveraged to gain Pre-auth Remote Code Execution and at least 400k servers are at risk. Patched version 4.90.1 is already released and we suggest to upgrade exim immediately.

Road to Exim RCE - Abusing Unsafe Memory Allocator in the Most Popular MTA

meh

 2017-12-11

On 23 November, 2017, we reported two vulnerabilities to Exim. These bugs exist in the SMTP daemon and attackers do not need to be authenticated, including CVE-2017-16943 for a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability, which leads to Remote Code Execution (RCE); and CVE-2017-16944 for a Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Advisory: Accellion File Transfer Appliance Vulnerability

orange

 2016-09-22

According to a public data reconnaissance, there are currently 1,217 FTA servers online around the world, most of which are located in the US, followed by Canada, Australia, UK, and Singapore. Determine from the domain name and SSL Certificate of these servers, FTA is widely used by governmental bodies, educational institutions, enterprises, including several well-known brands.