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ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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CONFUSION ATTACKS: EXPLOITING HIDDEN AMBIGUITY IN APACHE HTTP SERVER

Apache's HTTP server's modular design opens it up to vulnerabilities as the request_rec structure gets passed around to different modules, which may mutate it and interfere with how a module further downstream expects it to be, leading to confusion attacks. Most modules treat the filename parameter as a system path but some treat it as a URL. This leads to path truncation vulnerabilities in mod_rewrite and ACL bypass in mod_proxy. mod_rewrite will always load the path from both the DocumentRoot and root directory, which can lead to source code disclosure or LFI, XSS, and even RCE via local gadget abuse and jailbreak. A legacy code snippet that allows for the Content-Type to override the Handler causes handler confusion, which can lead to SSRF, information disclosure, and RCE.

EXPLORING DESERIALIZATION ATTACKS AND THEIR EFFECTS

This blog post explores deserialization attacks, focusing on how to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in applications that handle serialized data. It provides a step-by-step guide on how attackers can inject malicious code through deserialization, ultimately gaining control over the application's functionality. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding these attacks to enhance security practices during code review engagements.

REDEFINING CNAPP: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF CLOUD SECURITY

This post provides a comprehensive look at the cloud security and CNAPP landscape. It begins with a history of cloud security before diving into the agent vs agentless debate. Agent based scammers can provide more granular insights and provide runtime protection but can be difficult to deploy and may have performance issues. Agentless scanners are quick to deploy but generate a lot of false positives and are not suited to containerized workloads. CNAPP stifles innovation while being too bloated to be useful due to trying to cater to cloud security engineers and developers, who are both looking for fundamentally different things. The future of CNAPP is a convergence between vulnerability management, posture scanning, runtime detection, and response.

MICROSOFT IS BUILDING NEW WINDOWS SECURITY FEATURES TO PREVENT ANOTHER CROWDSTRIKE INCIDENT

In the wake of the disastrous CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft met with industry leaders to discuss security features that could be added to Windows to enable endpoint security vendors to move their products out of the kernel. Many vendors championed this as a productive endeavor and appreciated the collaboration from Microsoft. Others, like Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, cautioned the move as potentially leading to an unfair market where only Microsoft has access to the kernel. Microsoft has not mentioned locking vendors out of the kernel since 2006.

HACKING THE PLANET - A DEFCON ICS CTF 2024 RETROSPECTIVE

Maxwell Dulin's team won the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Capture the Flag (CTF) competition this year with a 37% lead over the next team. In this blog post, Dulin shares the team's winning strategies, which include focusing on in-person challenges during the day and solving offline challenges at night. Dulin's favorite challenge was turning on the lights for a smart city, which involved spoofing a device to control the lights.

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