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Shell Shock Vulnerability – Use AppCheck NG to Discover if You Are Affected
/ Posted September 25, 2014
On the 24th September 2014, a remote code execution vulnerability in bash (CVE-2014-6271) was made public after its discovery by Stephane Chazelas. The flaw, dubbed “Shell Shock” has been given the highest CVSS impact and exploitability rating of 10; and affects all versions of bash between 1.14.0 and 4.3, having existed in bash for 22 years. The flaw affects any operating system and application that utilises the bash shell, including Linux, MacOSX, and Cygwin environments on Windows.
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Shell Shock Vulnerability – Use AppCheck NG to Discover if You Are Affected
Product Security Alerts / Posted September 25, 2014
On the 24th September 2014, a remote code execution vulnerability in bash (CVE-2014-6271) was made public after its discovery by Stephane Chazelas. The flaw, dubbed “Shell Shock” has been given the highest CVSS impact and exploitability rating of 10; and affects all versions of bash between 1.14.0 and 4.3, having existed in bash for 22 years. The flaw affects any operating system and application that utilises the bash shell, including Linux, MacOSX, and Cygwin environments on Windows.
Read more50,000 Websites Hacked Through Critical WordPress Vulnerability
News Security Alerts / Posted July 26, 2014
Over 50,000 websites have been compromised within the first three weeks following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in the MailPoet plugin (formerly known as Wysija Newsletter) for WordPress.
Read moreTime for Better Web App Security as SQL & XSS Threats Surge
News Product / Posted July 16, 2014
A recent report revealed a 32% increase in cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks on the web-facing and cloud applications that carry sensitive information about organisations and their customers.
Read moreApache Struts Vulnerability – Use AppCheck NG to Discover if You Are Affected
Security Alerts / Posted July 16, 2014
Apache Struts 2 is an open-source web application framework for developing Java EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt a model–view–controller (MVC) architecture.
On April 24th the Apache Struts project released an advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting all versions of Struts between 2.0.0 and 2.3.16.1. Struts 2.3.16.2 (the latest release) is not vulnerable.
Read moreAppCheck NG Updated to Discover Critical OpenSSL Bug “Heartbleed”
Product Security Alerts / Posted June 12, 2014
On 7th April 2014 a group of security researchers disclosed a critical security flaw in the popular cryptographic software library OpenSSL.
The Heartbleed Bug allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet.
The AppCheck NG Web Application and Infrastructure vulnerability scanner has already been updated with a plugin to detect the flaw.