Vulnerability Research
Vulnerability Spotlight: Hard-coded Credential Flaw in Moxa ICS Wireless Access Points Identified and Fixed
Earlier this month, Talos responsibly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities in Moxa ICS wireless access points. While most of the vulnerabilities were addressed in the previous set of advisories, Talos has continued to work with Moxa to ensure all remaining vulnerabilities that Talos identified are pat…
From Box to Backdoor: Discovering Just How Insecure an ICS Device is in Only 2 Weeks
This post was authored by Martin Lee and Warren Mercer, based on research conducted by Patrick DeSantis. Industrial Control Systems provide stability to civilization. They clean our water, deliver our power, and enable the physical infrastructure that we have learnt to rely on. Industrial Control Sy…
Vulnerability Spotlight: Certificate Validation Flaw in Apple macOS and iOS Identified and Patched
Most people don’t give much thought to what happens when you connect to your bank’s website or log in to your email account. For most people, securely connecting to a website seems as simple as checking to make sure the little padlock in the address bar is present. However, in the backgr…
Vulnerability Spotlight: Apple Garage Band Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability
Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0262 (CVE-2017-2372) and TALOS-2017-0275 (CVE-2017-2374), an out of bounds write vulnerability in Apple GarageBand. GarageBand is a music creation program, allowing users to create and edit music easily and effectivel…
Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC jpeg Decoder Vulnerability
Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0259 / CVE-2017-2791 an uninitialized memory vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the largest and well known PDF readers available today. This particular vulnerability is asso…
Vulnerability Spotlight: Hopper Disassembler ELF Section Header Size Code Execution
Vulnerability Discovered by Tyler Bohan and Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos Talos has identified an exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the ELF Section Header parsing functionality of Hopper (TALOS-2016-0222/CVE-2016-8390). Hopper is a reverse engineering tool for macOS and Linux allowing…
Vulnerability Spotlight: Foxit PDF Reader JBIG2 Parser Information Disclosure
Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Talos. Talos has identified an information disclosure vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader (TALOS-2016-0201/CVE-2016-8334). A wrongly bounded call to `memcpy`, while parsing jbig2 segments within a PDF file, can be triggered in Foxit PDF Reader causing…
Vulnerability Spotlight: OpenJPEG JPEG2000 mcc record Code Execution Vulnerability
Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Talos has identified an exploitable out-of-bounds vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library (TALOS-2016-0193/CVE-2016-8332). The JPEG 2000 file format is commonly used for embedding i…
Vulnerability Spotlight: BlueStacks App Player Privilege Escalation
Discovered by Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga of Cisco Talos Talos is releasing an advisory for a vulnerability in BlueStacks App Player. (TALOS-2016-0124/CVE-2016-4288). The BlueStacks App Player is designed to enable Android applications to run on Windows PCs and Macintosh computers. It’s commonly used to r…