watchTowr Labs (Page 4)

May 1, 2025

SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475)

Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post, we’re excited to share our previously private analysis of the now exploited

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Apr 24, 2025

Fire In The Hole, We’re Breaching The Vault - Commvault Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-34028)

As we pack our bags and prepare for the adult-er version of BlackHat (that apparently doesn’t require us to print out stolen mailspoolz to hand to people at

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Apr 4, 2025

Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will know all about Ivanti (and a handful of other vendors of the same class

8 min read

Apr 1, 2025

XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748)

We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures in Kentico’s Xperience CMS. Due to it’s

17 min read

Mar 20, 2025

By Executive Order, We Are Banning Blacklists - Domain-Level RCE in Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2025-23120)

It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another merciless pwnage of an inspired and clearly comprehensive RCE solution

12 min read

Mar 17, 2025

Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS

I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown

29 min read

Feb 26, 2025

The Best Security Is When We All Agree To Keep Everything Secret (Except The Secrets) - NAKIVO Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-48248)

As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates - disclosure is terrible, information is actually dangerous, it’s best that

15 min read

Feb 4, 2025

8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur

Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software

41 min read

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

Jan 12, 2025

Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)

As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-

9 min read

Jan 10, 2025

Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)

Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos continues. Haha, see what we did? We wrote the

9 min read

Jan 8, 2025

Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted

16 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,

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Research archive, page 4

SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475)

Fire In The Hole, We’re Breaching The Vault - Commvault Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-34028)

Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748)

By Executive Order, We Are Banning Blacklists - Domain-Level RCE in Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2025-23120)

Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS

The Best Security Is When We All Agree To Keep Everything Secret (Except The Secrets) - NAKIVO Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-48248)

8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur

Get FortiRekt, I Am The Super_Admin Now - Fortinet FortiOS Authentication Bypass CVE-2024-55591

Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)

Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)

Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623)

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day

Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474