Vulnerabilities tagged "background"

CorePlague: Severe Vulnerabilities in Jenkins Server Lead to RCE

The XSS here is fairly basic, attacker controlled data reflected without sanitization, whats a bit more interesting is the input source, plugin metadata processed by the global Jenkin's Update Center.There is a bit of a process to getting plugins listed in the Update Center, submitted a PR and the first plugin needs to be manually approved, though the authors note that this is mostly a procedural thing...
 

Megafeis-palm: Exploiting Vulnerabilities to Open Bluetooth SmartLocks

A long, fairly beginner friendly post about attacking a Bluetooth lock, there is a lot of process information here as it was an intern's research project. What the vulnerability comes down to though is a lack of any real authoization checking instead only validating the integrity (poorly!) of the request and trusting the app did all the heavy lifting.
 

Exploitation of a fairly constrained UAF Primitive in the Linux Kernel [CVE-2022-42703]

A post on exploiting a bug that Jann Horn discovered in the linux kernel's memory management (MM) subsystem.The bug isn't detailed in this post and is fairly complex (there is a project zero bug report but it's difficult to understand without deep knowledge of MM internals), though they state it will be written up in a future blogpost...
 
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