Penetration Testing

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Zero Day

JUNE 23, 2025

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Peripheral devices with unsigned firmware can expose Windows and Linux machines to hack, warn experts from firmware security firm Eclypsium. An attacker could exploit the lack of checks to execute malicious firmware and perform malicious actions on both Windows and Linux systems, such as the installation of persistent backdoors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Intel released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, the Processor Identification Utility, and the Computing Improvement Program. Intel Patch Tuesday for August 2019 addressed high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, Processor Identification Utility, and Computing Improvement Program.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Netgear has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to take over AC Router Nighthawk (R7800) hardware running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.68. NETGEAR strongly recommends that you download the latest firmware as soon as possible.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

The CVE-2019-0090 vulnerability affects the firmware running on the ROM of the Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Intel CSME is responsible for initial authentication of Intel-based systems by loading and verifying all other firmware for modern platforms.” x, SPS_E3_05.00.04.027.0.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

But according to an in-depth analysis shared with KrebsOnSecurity by security researcher Paul Marrapese , iLnkP2P devices offer no authentication or encryption and can be easily enumerated, allowing potential attackers to establish a direct connection to these devices while bypassing any firewall restrictions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hackers target QNAP NAS devices running multiple firmware versions vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) flaw addressed by the vendor 3 years ago. QNAP addressed the vulnerability with the release of firmware version 4.3.3 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. on July 21, 2017.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. The firmware malware is based on code associated with HackingTeam’s VectorEDK bootkit, with minor changes. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

The flaws include reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), buffer overflows, bypassing authentication issues, and arbitrary code execution bugs. The vendor pointed out that DAP-1522 and DIR-816L models that have reached their “end of support” phase, this means that these devices running firmware versions v1.42 (and below) and v12.06.B09

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“The authentication function contains undocumented code which provides the ability to authenticate as root without having to know the actual root password. An adversary with the private key can remotely authenticate to the management interface as root.” ” reads the advisory published by the expert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/ phscripts /bin/ tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

The backdoor accounts in the firmware of 29 FTTH Optical Line Termination (OLT) devices from popular vendor C-Data. The security duo, composed of Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres, disclosed seven vulnerabilities in the firmware of FTTH OLT devices manufactured by C-Data. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure or denial of service via local access.” The second vulnerability addressed by Intel affects SSD DC S4500/S4600 series firmware, it could be exploited by an attacker with physical access for privilege escalation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers observed both the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets using an exploit for a post-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web Gateways 5.0.2.8. Experts note that the exploit is only effective for authenticated sessions and the affected devices are End of Life (EOL) from 2012.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

CGI password logger This installs a fake version of the device admin login page, logging successful authentications and passing them to the legitimate login page. The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/phscripts/bin/tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The flaw was discovered by experts at Tenable that explained that an authenticated remote unprivileged user can change or download the running configuration or replace the appliance firmware where they shouldn’t. In particular, the aaa authentication http console {LOCAL | <aaa-server>} command must be present,” Cisco concludes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2019

of the firmware. The weakness impacts PIV smart card applications, Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication, OATH one-time passwords, and OpenPGP. “An issue exists in the YubiKey FIPS Series devices with firmware version 4.4.2 there is no released firmware version 4.4.3) that was certified at the end of April.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Researchers at firmware security firm Eclypsium discovered multiple vulnerabilities referred as USBAnywhere that could be exploited to potentially allow an attacker to take over the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11. ” reads the post published by Eclypsium.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Unlike other printer management protocols, the IPP protocol supports multiple security features, including authentication and encryption, but evidently organizations don’t use them. This info includes printer names, locations, models, firmware versions, organization names, and even WiFi network names. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

“Just like the regular dnschanger , this campaign attempts to guess the password on the router’s web authentication page or bypass the authentication through the dnscfg. Js DNSChanger is written in JavaScript and includes 10 attack scripts designed to infect 6 routers or firmware packages. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Security experts at Applied Risk are affected by potentially serious flaws and the bad news is that the vendor will not release firmware updates because the impacted products have reached the end of life. ABB also published separate advisories for the missing authentication and XSS vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Searching online the expert first found an encrypted firmware, he found on a forum a Portable ROM Dumper , (a custom firmware update file that once loaded, dumps the memory of the camera into the SD Card) that allowed him to dump the camera’s firmware and load it into his disassembler (IDA Pro). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. It is worrying that all analyzed brands have at least some models that allow users to keep default passwords or have no authentication setup whatsoever.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

. “ A vulnerability in the logic that handles access control to one of the hardware components in Cisco’s proprietary Secure Boot implementation could allow an authenticated, local attacker to write a modified firmware image to the component.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The issue affects the following Cisco products if they have web access enabled and are running a firmware release earlier than the first fixed release for that device: IP Phone 7811, 7821, 7841, and 7861 Desktop Phones IP Phone 8811, 8841, 8845, 8851, 8861, and 8865 Desktop Phones Unified IP Conference Phone 8831 Wireless IP Phone 8821 and 8821-EX.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The flaws were discovered by researchers Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands, the duo discovered that it is possible to bypass password-based authentication to access to encrypted data stored on the drives. Anyway, an attacker can reprogram the firmware to ignore the password and use the DEK.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A typical attack scenario to gain this information sees attackers to luring an authenticated NAS user by tricking it into visiting a specially crafted malicious website. Lenovo confirmed that firmware versions 4.1.402.34662 and earlier are vulnerable, users have to download firmware version 4.1.404.34716 (or later).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to the Fortinet, the vulnerability impacts D-Link firmware in the DIR-655, DIR-866L, DIR-652, and DHP-1565 router families. We rated this as a critical issue since the vulnerability can be triggered remotely without authentication.” “The vulnerability begins with a bad authentication check.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Multiple, if not all, Zyxel NAS products running firmware versions up to 5.21 are vulnerable to this pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. ZyXEL NAS devices achieve authentication by using the weblogin.cgi CGI executable. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The issues, including a hardcoded session ID, allow unauthenticated, remote attacker to stop, start, and disconnect any screen sharing session due to insufficient authentication checking in the moderator controls. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

“One of the screenshots seems to consist of LG Electronics official firmware or software update releases that assist their hardware products to work more efficiently.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Several media outlets independently analyzed the data leak and verified the authenticity of the data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The lack of proper input sanitization can be exploited without authentication to trigger DoS conditions and leak server information. Talos experts explained that parsing errors require an authenticated session for exploitation, a circumstance that can lead to remote code execution under the context of HTTPD. “If Pierluigi Paganini.

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