Jan 27, 2025 Get FortiRekt, I Am The Super_Admin Now - Fortinet FortiOS Authentication Bypass CVE-2024-55591 Welcome to Monday, and what an excitingly fresh start to the week we're all having. Grab your coffee, grab your vodka - we're diving into a currently 15 min read
Dec 11, 2024 Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623) We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators using a zero-day exploit in Cleo MFT software - namely, LexiCom, VLTransfer, and 8 min read
Dec 5, 2024 Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from 16 min read
Nov 19, 2024 Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, 12 min read
Apr 16, 2024 Palo Alto - Putting The Protecc In GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400) Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by now-familiar news—a nation-state was exploiting a “sophisticated” vulnerability for full 12 min read
Apr 12, 2024 IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious 18 min read
Feb 22, 2024 “To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but there is one that we have not mentioned before, that is - quite frankly 15 min read
Feb 9, 2024 Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2024-22024 - Are We Now Part Of Ivanti? As astute readers of our Twitter account (https://twitter.com/watchtowrcyber) and blog will know, we’ve recently been heavily involved in understanding the recent spatter of vulnerabilities in Ivanti 9 min read
Feb 8, 2024 Form Tools Remote Code Execution: We Need To Talk About PHP When looking across the attack surface of large enterprises, the expectation is the utilisation of well-known heavy-hitting software and appliances. Think your Citrix's, Cisco's, 14 min read
Nov 21, 2023 XXE, You Can Depend On Me (OpenCMS CVE-2023-42344 and Friends) In the idealistic world of security research, we’d be faced with the latest versions of off-the-shelf enterprise products, primed with fresh hardened code ready for analysis and 9 min read
Oct 5, 2023 Yet More Unauth Remote Command Execution Vulns in Firewalls - Sangfor Edition You’re likely seeing a trend - yes, we know, we look at a lot of enterprise-grade software and appliances. Today, we’re not here to change your expectations of 19 min read
Sep 8, 2023 Orbeon Forms: The Final Form? On A Journey To RCE When software is introduced as the solution used by “Enterprises and Governments”, it is almost rude of us not to engage further and see how terrifying everything becomes. One of 15 min read
Aug 25, 2023 CVE-2023-36844 And Friends: RCE In Juniper Devices As part of our Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management technology - the watchTowr Platform - we're incredibly proud of our ability to discover nested, exploitable vulnerabilities across 17 min read
Aug 14, 2023 Log4Shell Is Dead! Long Live Log4Shell! As part of our Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management technology - the watchTowr Platform - we're incredibly proud of our ability to discover nested, exploitable vulnerabilities across 4 min read
May 25, 2023 GitLab Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2023-2825) Analysis At watchTowr, some systems are interesting, and some systems are very interesting. When we see impactful, exploitable vulnerabilities dropping out of the sky in typically critical systems - like GitLab - our 9 min read