Leaked Exploits are Legit and Belong to NSA: Cisco, Fortinet and Snowden Docs Confirm

Last week, a group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” published what it said was a set of NSA “cyber weapons,” including some working exploits for the Internet’s most crucial network infrastructure, apparently stolen from the agency’s Equation Group in 2013.

Well, talking about the authenticity of those exploits, The Intercept published Friday a new set of documents from the Edward Snowden

Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers

Posted by Summer of Pwnage on Aug 20

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Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers
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Yorick Koster, July 2016

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Abstract
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A path traversal vulnerability was found in the Core Ajax…

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Original release date: August 20, 2016

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in several products. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take control of an affected system.

Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates:


This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

CVE-2014-9906

Use-after-free vulnerability in DBD::mysql before 4.029 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a lost server connection.

CVE-2015-8022

The Configuration utility in F5 BIG-IP LTM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, and Link Controller 11.x before 11.2.1 HF16, 11.3.x, 11.4.x before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1; BIG-IP AAM 11.4.x before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1; BIG-IP AFM and PEM 11.3.x, 11.4.x before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.1; BIG-IP Edge Gateway, WebAccelerator, and WOM 11.x before 11.2.1 HF16 and 11.3.0; and BIG-IP PSM 11.x before 11.2.1 HF16, 11.3.x, and 11.4.x before 11.4.1 HF10 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging an Access Policy Manager customization configuration section that allows file uploads.

CVE-2015-8949

Use-after-free vulnerability in the my_login function in DBD::mysql before 4.033_01 allows attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call to mysql_errno after a failure of my_login.

CVE-2016-0760

Multiple incomplete blacklist vulnerabilities in Apache Sentry before 1.7.0 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via the (1) reflect, (2) reflect2, or (3) java_method Hive builtin functions.

CVE-2016-3089

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SWF panel in Apache OpenMeetings before 3.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the swf parameter.

CVE-2016-3193

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the appliance web-application in Fortinet FortiManager 5.x before 5.0.12, 5.2.x before 5.2.6, and 5.4.x before 5.4.1 and FortiAnalyzer 5.x before 5.0.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.6, and 5.4.x before 5.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2016-3194

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the address added page in Fortinet FortiManager 5.x before 5.0.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.6 and FortiAnalyzer 5.x before 5.0.13 and 5.2.x before 5.2.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.