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Sometimes headline-making vulnerabilities aren’t necessarily the ones causing the most burning challenges for companies. What makes a difference during uncertain times is identifying the key focus points needed to support business priorities.
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Let’s tackle a vulnerability that broke out not only in BIG-IP firewalls but also on social media! When a major issue affecting a security product emerges, it immediately makes the headlines, the paradox of the situation impossible to ignore.
Think like an attacker, act like a defender. That’s the pentesters’ mantra, if you ask me. That’s why today we’re diving into one of the most interesting tactics that malicious actors use: vulnerability chaining.
We looked at around 300 DotNetNuke deployments in the wild and discovered that one in five installations was vulnerable to CVE-2017-9822. That includes governmental and banking websites. As part of this research, we discovered a Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploitable through DNN Cookie Deserialization in one of the U.S. Department Of Defense’s biggest websites. After having responsibly reported it through HackerOne, the DOD solved the high-severity vulnerability and disclosed the report, with all details now publicly available.
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To enhance the way you scan your internal networks, we added a new way to perform this on Pentest-Tools.com. It is a lot easier and does not require any special configuration. All you need to do is run the VPN Agent and start scanning!
For the past couple of weeks, a critical RCE vulnerability found in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) has kept both the Microsoft users and the security community on their toes. To help our customers better detect if their Windows hosts were affected by the critical SMBGhost vulnerability, we developed and added a new, dedicated scanner on Pentest-Tools.com.
