Posts tagged Vulnerability Management

7 min Ransomware

The Ransomware Task Force: A New Approach to Fighting Ransomware

The Institute for Security and Technology put together a comprehensive Ransomware Task Force (RTF) to identify new approaches to shift the dynamics of ransomware and reduce opportunities for attackers.

13 min Vulnerability Management

Multiple Open Source Web App Vulnerabilities Fixed

While it's never great to learn of new vulnerabilities in your own product, all three project maintainers accepted, validated, and provided fixes for these vulnerabilities within one day, which is amazing when it comes to vulnerability disclosure.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Now I Control Your Resource Planning Servers Sage X3 is a resource planning product designed by Sage Group which is designed to help established businesses plan out their business operations. But what if you wanted to do more than just manage resources? What if you wanted to hijack the resource server itself? Well wait no more, as thanks to the work of Aaron Herndon [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-herndon-54079b5a/], Jonathan Peterson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-p-004b76a1/], Will
3 min Detection and Response

Accelerating SecOps and Emergent Threat Response with the Insight Platform

Efficiency and streamlined operations are two areas where our team will continue to focus efforts in order to deliver value across Rapid7’s growing best-in-class portfolio, while enabling cross capability experiences that improve security team effectiveness.
3 min InsightVM

What’s New in InsightVM: Q2 2021 in Review

Here is a rundown of new features and functionality launched in Q2 2021 for InsightVM and the Insight Platform.

9 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - July 2021

Microsoft has patched another 117 CVEs [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Jul], returning to volumes seen in early 2021 and most of 2020. It would appear that the recent trend of approximately 50 vulnerability fixes per month was not indicative of a slowing pace. This month there were 13 vulnerabilities rated Critical with nearly the rest being rated Important. Thankfully, none of the updates published today require additional steps to remediate, so administrators should b
2 min Emergent Threat Response

ForgeRock Access Manager/OpenAM Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-35464): What You Need To Know

On June 29, 2021, researcher Michael Stepankin (@artsploit) posted details of a pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2021-35464, in ForgeRock Access Manager identity and access management software that front-ends web applications and remote access solutions in many enterprises.
4 min Vulnerability Management

InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios
4 min Detection and Response

Attack Surface Analysis Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming

This is the third and final installment in our 2021 series around attack surface analysis. In this installment I’ll detail the final 2 analysis techniques—red and purple teaming.

8 min Vulnerability Disclosure

Akkadian Provisioning Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities Disclosure (Fixed)

Researchers discovered a trio of vulnerabilities in the Akkadian Provisioning Manager version 4.50.18.

5 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - June 2021

It is another low volume Patch Tuesday this month as Microsoft releases fixes for 50 vulnerabilities. This should not diminish the importance of speedily applying the updates. 6 of the vulnerabilities being patched this month are 0-days under active exploitation (CVE-2021-31955 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31955], CVE-2021-31956 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31956], CVE-2021-33739 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/updat
4 min Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE-2021-3198 and CVE-2021-3540: MobileIron Shell Escape Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Discovered by Rapid7 researcher William Vu, Ivanti MobileIron Core versions 10.7.0.1-9 and 11.0.0.1-3 suffer from 2 restricted-shell escape vulnerabilities.

2 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2021-21985: What you need to know about the latest critical vCenter Server vulnerability

On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, VMware published security advisory VMSA-2021-0010 [https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html], which includes details on CVE-2021-21985, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the vSphere Client (HTML5) component of vCenter Server (6.5, 6.7, and 7.0) and VMware Cloud Foundation (3.x and 4.x). The vulnerability arises from lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in vCenter Server. Succe
8 min Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER)

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: High-Risk Services Among the Fortune 500

Certain services are considered high-risk on the public internet. We conducted research to see how well Fortune 500 companies are performing in this area.
5 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - May 2021

Here we are again with another installment of Patch Tuesday. When compared to the past few months this one feels a bit light both in severity and number of vulnerabilities addressed. Microsoft has only released patches for 55 CVEs this month, less than half of the usual volume, with only 4 of them being scored as critical. Let's dive into the details. HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - CVE-2021-31166 [https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-

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