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  • When WAFs Go Awry: Common Detection & Evasion Techniques for Web Application Firewalls

    Oct 28th, 2024

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    Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) help to protect web applications by monitoring, filtering, and blocking HTTP traffic to and from a web service. However, WAFs are too often relied upon as…

  • CVE-2023-26258 – Remote Code Execution in ArcServe UDP Backup

    Jun 28th, 2023

    Written by: Admin

    ActiveBreach

    Overview During a recent adversary simulation, the MDSec ActiveBreach red team were performing a ransomware scenario, with a key objective set on compromising the organisation’s backup infrastructure. As part of…

  • Microsoft Office Online Server Remote Code Execution

    Oct 19th, 2022

    Written by: Admin

    ActiveBreach

    Microsoft’s Office Online Server is the next generation of Office Web Apps Server; it provides a browser based viewer/editor for Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote documents. The product can be…

  • ABC-Code Execution for Veeam

    Mar 29th, 2022

    Written by: Admin

    ActiveBreach

    This blog post details several recently patched vulnerabilities in the Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. We’ll detail MDSec’s process for identifying these 1Day vulnerabilities, writing…

  • NSA Meeting Proposal for ProxyShell

    Sep 15th, 2021

    Written by: Admin

    ActiveBreach

    As part of Microsoft Exchange April and May 2021 patch, several important vulnerabilities were fixed which could lead to code execution or e-mail hijacking. Any outdated and exposed Exchange server…

  • Covert Web Shells in .NET with Read-Only Web Paths

    Oct 15th, 2020

    Written by: Admin

    ActiveBreach

    In a recent red team engagement, we discovered a SharePoint instance that was vulnerable to CVE-2020-1147. I was asked to build a web shell without running any commands to avoid…

  • Analysis of CVE-2020-0605 – Code Execution using XPS Files in .NET

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    May 10th, 2020

    Written by: Admin

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    Introduction Microsoft patched a number of deserialisation issues using the XPS files. Although the patch for CVE-2020-0605 was released in January 2020, it was incomplete and an additional update was released in…

  • Mattermost Enterprise Denial of Service

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    May 10th, 2020

    Written by: Admin

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    Introduction LaTeX is a document typesetting system that takes a plaintext file, stylised using mark-up tags similar to HTML or CSS, and converts this into a high-quality document for displaying…

  • Introducing YSoSerial.Net April 2020 Improvements

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    Apr 10th, 2020

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    Exploitation

    The YSoSerial.Net project has become the most popular tool when researching or exploiting deserialisation issues in .NET. We have recently invested some research time to improve this tool to help ourselves and…

  • A Security Review of SharePoint Site Pages

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    Mar 10th, 2020

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    Introduction If you have worked with SharePoint, you have seen two types of ASPX pages: Application pages are not customisable. They are stored on the file system and are used…

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