It's hard to overstate what's happening here. The FBI, New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General, and Congress are now running inquiries into the Equifax breach. More will come. It's clear that the U.S. economy will change in some way as a result..
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, a critical new Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was disclosed against all previous versions of the Apache Struts 2 REST Plugin [1] available in those packages with Struts 2 between 2.0.0 and 2.5.12..
On March 6, a new remote code execution vulnerability was disclosed1 against Struts 2 (2.3.5-2.3.31 and 2.5-2.5.10.) Most likely, if you're using Struts 2, you are vulnerable to a one-shot attack which can run arbitrary system commands.
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Let’s talk about commons-httpclient-3.1.jar. I get asked about this library all the time.
It’s an HTTP communication library. It has a vulnerability in it. It doesn’t handle SSL very well.
In fact, it doesn’t really verify you are who the client..
I often get the question, “How well does your product handle iOS?” I’d like to explain why I think this question is a warning sign for an application security program.
NOTE: Before you begin reading, you may want to visit this article for Act 1 of our series – Kryo serialization library and its weaknesses. This piece frames some of the discussion in this blog, but definitely isn’t required reading.
XStream is a..
When @frohoff, @gebl and @breenmachine all combined to melt Java security (in what I’m hereafter conflating under the term “seriapalooza”), I thought about deserialization alternatives. Where are my customers going next? Is there greener grass?..
Recently Contrast Security ran some analysis of our customers’ 3rd party software usage, which is a huge security blind spot for most organizations, and our data tells an interesting story. I’m going to tell you why 3rd party libraries are a serious..
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