CONTENTS:

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES December 20 - 27, 2018
TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Microsoft releases out-of-band update for Internet Explorer

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

Title: Microsoft releases out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer
Description: Microsoft released an out-of-band (OOB) patch on Wednesday related to a vulnerability in the scripting engine of Internet Explorer. This particular vulnerability is believed to be actively exploited in the wild and should be patched immediately.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/12/MS-OOB-IE-Scripting-Engine-Vuln.html
Snort SIDs: 48699 - 48702

Title: Privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance software
Description: Cisco disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance software that could allow an attacker to perform privileged actions by using the web management interface. The vulnerability lies in the way the software improperly validates user privileges when using the web management interface.
Reference: https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181219-asa-privesc
Snort SIDs: 48644

INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY

NASA reveals hackers breached one of their servers containing employees’ personal information earlier this year.
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-reveals-data-breach-in-internal-memo/

Amazon inadvertently sent more than 1,700 voice recordings of random people to a man in Germany after the submitted a GDPR request to the company.
https://threatpost.com/amazon-1700-alexa-voice-recordings/140201/

Caribou Coffee says 256 of its stores were targeted in a cyberattack for months in an effort to steal customers’ credit card information.
http://www.startribune.com/caribou-coffee-notifies-customers-of-data-breach/503268372/

The U.S. charged two Chinese hackers with data theft in 12 different countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-and-more-than-a-dozen-allies-to-condemn-china-for-economic-espionage/2018/12/20/cdfd0338-0455-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

The U.S. imposed another round of sanctions on Russia for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-treasury/us-imposes-fresh-russia-related-sanctions-treasury-idUSKCN1OI27F

RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are available. System administrators can use this list to help in prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet activity.

ID: CVE-2018-8653
Title: Microsoft Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka “Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability.” This affects Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8643.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2018-15982
Title: Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.153 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2018-15982 exists in the wild.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2018-10933
Title: libssh Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: libssh
Description: A vulnerability was found in libssh’s server-side state machine before versions 0.7.6 and 0.8.4. A malicious client could create channels without first performing authentication, resulting in unauthorized access.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

ID: CVE-2018-11776
Title: Apache Struts 2 Namespace Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (S2-057)
Vendor: Apache Software Foundation
Description: Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16 suffer from possible Remote Code Execution when using results with no namespace and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2018-2628
Title: Oracle Weblogic Deserialization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Oracle
Description: Vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware (subcomponent: WLS Core Components). Supported versions that are affected are 10.3.6.0, 12.1.3.0, 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via T3 to compromise Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic Server.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

ID: CVE-2018-8174
Title: Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: The VBScript engine contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to how it handles objects in memory. An attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2018-7600
Title: Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (SA-CORE-2018-002)
Vendor: Drupal
Description: Drupal before 7.58, 8.x before 8.3.9, 8.4.x before 8.4.6, and 8.5.x before 8.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because of an issue affecting multiple subsystems with default or common module configurations.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2018-0886
Title: Microsoft Credential Security Support Provider Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: The Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and 1709 Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to how CredSSP validates request during the authentication process, aka “CredSSP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES December 20 - 27, 2018
COMPILED BY TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

SHA 256: 3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3
MD5: 47b97de62ae8b2b927542aa5d7f3c858
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3/details
Typical Filename: qmreportupload
Claimed Product: qmreportupload
Detection Name: Win.Trojan.Generic::in10.talos

SHA 256: 709a7dd743ca6a688ee0afc9a67a04c73c4f6fb6559cde2bafadbb5af58f043b
MD5: 59a06d7e48fd3d80fa2dc1cb859b45cc
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/709a7dd743ca6a688ee0afc9a67a04c73c4f6fb6559cde2bafadbb5af58f043b/details
Typical Filename: helperamc
Claimed Product: Advanced Mac Cleaner
Detection Name: OSX.709A7DD743.agent.tht.Talos

SHA 256: 15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b
MD5: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b/details
Typical Filename: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc.vir
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.Generic:Gen.21ij.1201

SHA 256: c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f
MD5: e2ea315d9a83e7577053f52c974f6a5a
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f/details
Typical Filename: Tempmf582901854.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.AgentWDCR:Gen.21gn.1201

SHA 256: c5cbcbada7c462cf89255f54fdbe955e2ad1149128bfe3fdd1db4dfe234fec8e
MD5: d2317379a712d38942db74c6b38aba6f
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/c5cbcbada7c462cf89255f54fdbe955e2ad1149128bfe3fdd1db4dfe234fec8e/details
Typical Filename: correctiron.exe
Claimed Product: Musthow
Detection Name: W32.Auto:c5cbcb.in03.Talos