50 Shades of Vulnerabilities: Uncovering Flaws in Open-Source Vulnerability Disclosures

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SECURITY RESEARCH

50 Shades of Vulnerabilities: Uncovering Flaws in Open-Source Vulnerability Disclosures

Aqua Nautilus researchers evaluated the vulnerability disclosure process for tens of thousands of open-source projects and found flaws in the process. These flaws allowed harvesting the vulnerabilities before they were patched and announced. This could enable attackers to exploit security holes before the project’s users are alerted.

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Scanning KBOM for Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Early this summer we announced the release of Kubernetes Bills of Material (KBOM) as part of Trivy, our all in one, popular open source security scanner. In the blog we discussed how KBOM is the manifest of all the important components that make up your Kubernetes cluster: Control plane components, Node Components, and Addons, including …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Looney Tunables Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing

Researchers from Aqua Nautilus have successfully intercepted Kinsing’s experimental incursions into cloud environments. Utilizing a rudimentary yet typical PHPUnit vulnerability exploit attack, a component of Kinsing’s ongoing campaign, we have uncovered the threat actor’s manual efforts to manipulate the Looney Tunables vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911). This marks the first documented instance of such an exploit, to the …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Exploited SSH Servers Offered in the Dark web as Proxy Pools

Security Threat

Aqua Nautilus researchers have shed brighter light on a long-standing threat to SSH in the context of the cloud. More specifically, the threat actor harnessed our SSH server to be a slave proxy and pass traffic through it. In this blog, we will explain this threat, demonstrate how attackers exploit SSH, what actions they take …

COMPANY & CULTURE

Ensuring Business Continuity at Aqua While Israel is at War

In a world fraught with uncertainties, global companies must be prepared to ensure continuity of operations, particularly in the face of the unexpected. With locations in the US, Israel, Singapore, India, Australia and London, we understand the importance of robust business continuity planning. Following the brutal attack of Hamas terrorists on Israeli citizens early last …

SECURITY RESEARCH

New Vulnerability in curl and libcurl Could Lead to Heap Buffer Overflow

A new high severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) was published today along with a technical blog around the popular open source project, curl. This vulnerability could potentially, under various conditions, cause a heap overflow, which might lead to unexpected behavior, crashes, or potentially code execution. Therefore, the developer community should pay extra attention to this vulnerability and …

Five Misconfigurations Threatening Your AWS Environment Today

In the ever-expanding realm of AWS, with over 200 services at your disposal, securing your cloud account configurations and mastering complex environments can feel like an overwhelming challenge. To help you prioritize and root them out, we’ve put together a guide for AWS configurations that are most commonly overlooked. Here are five of the top …

Elevating Cloud Security Response with Cloud-to-Code Tracing

Data breaches and ransomware attacks have become a common headline around the globe. Meanwhile, protecting cloud environments has turned into an uphill battle for even the most seasoned CISO. With a broader attack surface, the dynamic nature of open source software, and a growing number of vulnerabilities being discovered each year, being prepared for the …

PARTNERS & ALLIANCES

Accenture and Aqua Partner to Empower Cloud Security

Eight years ago, Amir Jerbi and I founded Aqua Security with the aspiration of creating a better approach to securing modern cloud applications. While our journey initially focused on securing Docker technology, digital transformation and a changing threat landscape drove us to innovate further and eventually pioneer a new category known as CNAPP (Cloud Native …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Kinsing Malware Exploits Novel Openfire Vulnerability

Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign that exploits the Openfire vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315), that was disclosed in May of this year, to deploy Kinsing malware and a cryptominer. This vulnerability leads to a path traversal attack, which grants an unauthenticated user access to the Openfire setup environment. This then allows the threat actor to create a …

CLOUD SECURITY, COMPANY & CULTURE

Innovating Cloud Security: Why Aqua Leads in Gigaom CSPM Radar

What does it mean to be an innovator? Is it someone whose face and company are known? Whose product is the most popular? Who has the coolest ads or the most social media likes? According to the Oxford dictionary, an innovator is someone who introduces change and new ideas. At Aqua we have always thought …

SECURITY RESEARCH

PowerHell: Active Flaws in PowerShell Gallery Expose Users to Attacks

Security Threat

Recent findings by Aqua Nautilus have exposed significant flaws that are still active in the PowerShell Gallery’s policy regarding package names and owners. These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify the true owner of a package. Consequently, these flaws pave the way for …

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