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Vulnerabilities Discovered in Tiff Server from AquaForest

Versions Tested: Tiff Server 4.0 Product: https://www.aquaforest.com/en/tiffserver.asp Security Advisories: N/A CVE Numbers: CVE-2020-9323 CVE-2020-9324 CVE-2020-9325 CVSS Score: Unauthenticated File and Directory Enumeration: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:W/RC:C Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:W/RC:C Unauthenticated SMB Hash Capture via UNC: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:W/RC:C CWE: Unauthenticated File and Directory Enumeration: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (“Path Traversal”) Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download: CWE-20: Improper Input […]

Vulnerability Focus: Exploits Impacting Organizations

No matter how much you think you’ve done to protect your data and systems, common vulnerabilities continue to wreak havoc on enterprises. Cyberattacks are already increasing due to global events, meaning it’s more important than ever to identify and secure vulnerabilities. The following are some vulnerability trends the TEAMARES team is seeing – and what you […]

A Commitment to Getting It Right: Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition Migration Tool

Background: During a recent penetration test for a client, I came across a tool called MigrationTool from Palo Alto Networks. The tool was littered with issues, like the unauthenticated disclosure of passwords, hashes, versions, and more that were uncovered. So, what’s a TEAMARES team member to do? I quickly grabbed my screenshots and informed Palo Alto Networks […]

Reducing Vulnerabilities: Addressing Orphaned Systems and Weak Passwords

Luckily, it was only a test. During penetration testing for two international companies, our team found numerous vulnerabilities. In both cases we had total control over all systems within the clients’ network and could easily shut them down, siphon data from critical customer-facing systems, take over PCI assets, and more. If we were the bad […]

Cracking NTLMv2 Hashes with Cthulhu

Why Password Managers and MFA are Important in your Security Stack The subject of password strength and complexity requirements has been discussed and debated ad nauseam in the security industry. It is a subject as old as information security itself and will not be going away any time soon. We, as penetration testers, absolutely love passwords because […]

ManageEngine Privilege Escalation

Background: After running into ManageEngine products on a number of penetration tests, we decided to take a closer look at their products and see if there were any vulnerabilities that we could take advantage of. CVE Numbers: CVE-2019-12876 Versions Tested: DesktopCentral – 10.0.380 ADSelfService Plus – 5.7 ADManager Plus – 6.6.5 DLL Hijacking: Multiple ManageEngine […]

ManageEngine User Enumeration

Background: While conducting a penetration test of a client’s external network, I discovered a way to enumerate users’ in ManageEngine’s ADSelfService Plus application. This allows an attacker to determine the system Admin username. Product: ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Software Version: 5.7, build 5704 Issue: The login page is vulnerable to account enumeration. The admin login page […]

VMware Horizon Connection Server Information Disclosure

Background:  While conducting a penetration test of a client’s external network, I discovered three separate instances of information disclosure in VMware’s Horizon Access Web Portal. An unauthenticated user could access information such as internal domain names, the Connection Server’s internal hostname, or the gateway’s internal IP address. Version Tested 4.7.0 CVE Number CVE-2019-5513 Security Advisoriess VMSA-2019-0003 – […]

The Pastebin Treasure Hunter

Introduction Malicious actors have multiple ways to share data they have stolen from websites or services. Some might post to popular forums to gain notoriety while others might post anonymously to paste sites like PasteBin. Combing through all the pastes being posted is beyond the ability of humans, so I’ve created a tool that helps users […]

Information Disclosure in JForum 2.1.X – Syntax

Background While conducting a penetration test for a customer, I encountered an unused developer forum using JForum version 2.1.8 and started looking for vulnerabilities within the application. Version Tested: 2.1.8 CVE Number: CVE-2019-7550 Security Advisories: None Issue When creating a new user within the application, the browser sends a GET request to the server to check if a […]