In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2023-3420, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.

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AMD “Zen3” processors feature a new technology called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF). PSF is a hardware-based micro-architectural optimization designed to improve the performance of code execution by predicting dependencies between loads and stores. Like technologies such as branch prediction, with PSF the processor “guesses” what the result of a load is likely to be, and speculatively executes subsequent instructions. In the event that the processor incorrectly speculated on the result of the load, it is designed to detect this and flush the incorrect results from the CPU pipeline.

Security research in recent years has examined the security implications of incorrect CPU speculation and how in some cases it may lead to side channel attacks. For instance, conditional branch speculation, indirect branch speculation, and store bypass speculation have been demonstrated to have the potential to be used in side-channel attacks (e.g., Spectre v1, v2, and v4 respectively).

Nice disclosure.

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Some time ago, we noticed at Realmode Labs that Amazon Kindle has an interesting feature called “Send to Kindle”. This feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their device as email attachments. We immediately thought of the potential security concerns of this feature: what if we can send malicious e-books to unsuspecting users?

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A hands-on beginner’s guide to what CSRF attacks are and how to prevent them.

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If you tried to intercept requests from the Facebook app on iOS using a proxy, you will be hitting by their message alert The operation couldn’t be completed. That’s because of their SSL Certificate Pinning protection which must be bypassed to be able to intercept requests and responses from their server. In this blog, We will go through their iOS app trying to bypass their SSL Pinning.

And the same for instagram: https://www.cyclon3.com/bypass-instagram-ssl-certificate-pinning-for-ios

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In the end, this random number generator was quickly removed, and that was that. But one can still wonder—is this generator secure but unanalyzed, or would it have been broken just to prove a point?

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As classic client-side vulnerabilities like XSS and CSRF get patched, CSP’d and SameSite’d into oblivion, niche attack techniques like DOM Clobbering are becoming ever more relevant. Michał Bentkowski recently used DOM Clobbering to exploit GMail, six years after I first introduced the technique in 2013. In this post, I’m going to quickly introduce DOM Clobbering, expand on my original research with some new techniques, and share two interactive labs so you can try the techniques out for yourself.

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Commit shorthashes have a major problem: As a repository accumulates a large number of commits, eventually it will contain two commit hashes that start with the same seven characters (and have the same shorthash). After this happens, tools that use shorthashes will start to break because the commit shorthash is ambiguous (it’s no longer a pointer to a single commit). Due to the birthday problem, any repository that has at least 19291 commits is likely to have a pair of ambiguous commits somewhere. So if we waited for the actions/docker repo to have tens of thousands of commits, one of the shorthashes would eventually become ambiguous and break someone’s build.

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While the kernel has a large amount of userland-reachable functionality, much of this attack surface is not accessible due to sandboxing in iOS. By default, an app is only able to access about 10 drivers’ userclients, which is a relatively small amount of code. Therefore, first escaping the app sandbox can be highly beneficial in order to attack the kernel.

In contrast to the kernel, many daemons running in userland are accessible via the default app sandbox. One such example is a daemon called MIDIServer (com.apple.midiserver). This daemon allows apps and other services to interface with MIDI hardware which may be connected to the device.

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From https://ironmansoftware.com/snek-integrating-python-in-powershell/

Snek is a cross-platform PowerShell module for integrating with Python. It uses the Python for .NET library to load the Python runtime directly into PowerShell. Using the dynamic language runtime, it can then invoke Python scripts and modules and return the result directly to PowerShell as managed .NET objects.

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Down the X.509 rabbit hole.

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Since hardware-level mitigations cannot be backported, a search for software defenses is pressing. Proposals made by both academia and industry, however, are either impractical to deploy, or insufficient in stopping all attacks: we present rampage, a set of DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against the latest Android OS, consisting of (1) a root exploit, and (2) a series of app-to-app exploit scenarios that bypass all defenses.

Web site... http://rampageattack.com/

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The sample was initially reported to Microsoft as a potential exploit for an unknown Windows kernel vulnerability. During my investigation in parallel with ESET researchers, I was surprised to discover two new zero-day exploits in the same PDF. One exploit affected Adobe Acrobat and Reader, while the other exploit affected older platforms, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

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The recently-demonstrated Spectre attacks leverage speculative loads which circumvent access checks to read memory-resident secrets, transmitting them to an attacker using cache timing or other covert communication channels. We introduce Spectre1.1, a new Spectre-v1 variant that leverages speculative stores to create speculative buffer overflows. Much like classic buffer overflows, speculative out-of-bounds stores can modify data and code pointers. Data-value attacks can bypass some Spectre-v1 mitigations, either directly or by redirecting control flow.

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Stack overflow vulnerability, plus stack protection mitigation bypass, exploit.

In slide form: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Goryachy-How-To-Hack-A-Turned-Off-Computer-Or-Running-Unsigned-Code-In-Intel-Management-Engine.pdf

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Go, the programming language initiated at Google, has recently shipped its version 1.9. One big change is the introduction of the math/bits package which offers hardware-accelerated functions to manipulate data.

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The following advisory describes a type confusion vulnerability that leads to remote code execution found in Chrome browser version 59.

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Buffer your I/O for faster throughput

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The exploit is achieved by abusing a logic flaw within the KAuth framework which is present in kde4 (org.kde.auth) and kde5 (org.kde.kf5auth). It is possible to spoof what KAuth calls callerID’s which are indeed DBUS unique names of the sender of a DBUS message.

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The exploiting was simple: I was able to upload the postscript files to the server, which then proceeded to convert the file to PDF or PDF/A. With one of the services I had to just rename the PostScript file so it had .pdf extension. Then the services gave me access to the converted files, which had the loot within them...

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