{"id":35901,"date":"2020-07-06T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/make-sure-youve-patched-your-f5-big-ip-gear-exploit-code-for-scary-bug-pair-is-so-trivial-it-fits-in-a-tweet\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:15:12","slug":"make-sure-youve-patched-your-f5-big-ip-gear-exploit-code-for-scary-bug-pair-is-so-trivial-it-fits-in-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/make-sure-youve-patched-your-f5-big-ip-gear-exploit-code-for-scary-bug-pair-is-so-trivial-it-fits-in-a-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Make sure you&#8217;ve patched your F5 BIG-IP gear. Exploit code for scary bug pair is so trivial, it fits in a tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2016\/09\/28\/shutterstock_patch.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"trailer\">In Brief<\/strong> Exploit code for the pair of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/07\/03\/f5_critical_flaws_big_ip\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nasty vulnerabilities<\/a> in F5 Networks&#8217; BIG-IP application delivery controllers is now doing the rounds, so make sure you&#8217;re all patched up.<\/p>\n<p>Miscreants are scanning the internet for machines to attack, judging from reports by infosec bods running honeypots. Any vulnerable kit facing the &#8216;net is likely to be probed at some point this week, if not already, to see if it can be hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>The flaws in question, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/support.f5.com\/csp\/article\/K52145254\">CVE-2020-5902<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/support.f5.com\/csp\/article\/K43638305\">CVE-2020-5903<\/a>, lie within the controllers&#8217; Traffic Management User Interface. Successful exploitation results in full admin control over the device.<\/p>\n<p>Now exploit code is being <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rapid7\/metasploit-framework\/pull\/13807\/commits\/0417e88ff24bf05b8874c953bd91600f10186ba4\">merged<\/a> into the Metasploit framework for anyone to use, and proof-of-concept code to extract files or execute arbitrary commands, which neatly fits into a tweet, is being shared all over the web&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0437317784257\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">F5 Big-IP CVE-2020-5902 LFI and RCE\n<\/p>\n<p>LFI<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/&lt;IP&gt;\/tmui\/login.jsp\/..;\/tmui\/locallb\/workspace\/fileRead.jsp?fileName=\/etc\/passwd<br \/>\n<br \/>or \/etc\/hosts<br \/>\n<br \/>or \/config\/bigip.license\n<\/p>\n<p>RCE<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/&lt;IP&gt;\/tmui\/login.jsp\/..;\/tmui\/locallb\/workspace\/tmshCmd.jsp?command=whoami<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Ete09oVP6\">https:\/\/t.co\/3Ete09oVP6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zBAfdIZBa2\">pic.twitter.com\/zBAfdIZBa2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jin Wook Kim (@wugeej) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wugeej\/status\/1280008779359125504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Folks are urged to patch their installations as soon as possible. Thousands of potentially vulnerable deployments are said to be facing the internet.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>Uncle Sam sounds the alarm on Tor<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>The US government&#8217;s Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure Security Agency has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/ncas\/alerts\/aa20-183a\">shared<\/a> some insights into the Tor network, warning \u2013 for those who have been living under a rock \u2013 &#8220;cyber threat actors can use Tor software and network infrastructure for anonymity and obfuscation purposes to clandestinely conduct malicious cyber operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Possible remediation ranges from issuing an outright block on both incoming and outgoing traffic from the IP address of all known Tor nodes, to simply collecting and keeping on hand a list of nodes so that they can be blocked as needed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>DDoS attacks soaring amid lockdown<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nexusguard.com\/threat-report\/ddos-threat-report-2020-q1\">report<\/a> from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) defense company NexusGuard reckons that over the past quarter DDoS attacks have risen 542 per cent. The reason given for the surge is pretty simple: with everyone under lockdown, miscreants have nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p>The data, based on NexusGuard&#8217;s own work with its customers, also shows network flooding are growing smaller in scope: attackers are sending lower volumes of traffic through each botnet machine in order to prevent ISPs from spotting their actions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>VPN SDK bug detailed<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Bug hunter 0xSha has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/0xsha.io\/posts\/zombievpn-breaking-that-internet-security\">unearthed<\/a> an annoying hole in a software development kit (SDK) used by BitDefender and other security suites to provide VPN functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed ZombieVPN, the vuln appears to be a privilege-escalation flaw in that malicious code running on a Windows PC with the AnchorFree SDK installed can exploit the bug to gain SYSTEM-level control. The vulnerability has been patched in the SDK, and is designated <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12828\">CVE-2020-12828<\/a>. Check your antivirus suite for updates if it uses AnchorFree.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>Zoom wraps up 90 day plan<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Zoom CEO Eric Yuan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zoom.us\/ceo-report-90-days-done-whats-next-for-zoom\/\">said<\/a> his video-conferencing wunderkind has officially concluded its 90-day security overhaul program in which it brought in a number of outside orgs and consultants to shore up its defenses after a number of privacy and security slip-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the CEO said Zoom will carry out regular audits and continue its enhanced bug bounty program, among other measures. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/07\/06\/roundup_week_july2\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: What? No. No way. People would just do that? Go on Tor and use it to commit crimes? In Brief\u00a0 Exploit code for the pair of nasty vulnerabilities in F5 Networks&#8217; BIG-IP application delivery controllers is now doing the rounds, so make sure you&#8217;re all patched up.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Make sure you&#039;ve patched your F5 BIG-IP gear. 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