A US government probe into claims that certain heart implants are vulnerable to hacking attacks, has resulted in emergency security patches being issued for devices that cardiac patients have in their homes.
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The “spiffy-cgi-handlers” egg would convert a nonexistent “Proxy” header to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server (also known as a “httpoxy” attack). This affects all versions of spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5.
eClinicalWorks Population Health (CCMR) suffers from a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in portalUserService.jsp which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of content administrators for requests that could lead to the creation, modification and deletion of users, appointments and employees.
The “process-execute” and “process-spawn” procedures did not free memory correctly when the execve() call failed, resulting in a memory leak. This could be abused by an attacker to cause resource exhaustion or a denial of service. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
eClinicalWorks Population Health (CCMR) suffers from an SQL injection vulnerability in portalUserService.jsp which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary malicious database commands as part of user input.
A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python HPACK library between v1.0.0 and v2.2.0 could be targetted for a denial of service attack, specifically a so-called “HPACK Bomb” attack. This attack occurs when an attacker inserts a header field that is exactly the size of the HPACK dynamic header table into the dynamic header table. The attacker can then send a header block that is simply repeated requests to expand that field in the dynamic table. This can lead to a gigantic compression ratio of 4,096 or better, meaning that 16kB of data can decompress to 64MB of data on the target machine.
eClinicalWorks Population Health (CCMR) suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability in login.jsp which allows remote unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary javascript via the strMessage parameter.
A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python priority library prior to version 1.2.0 could be targetted by a malicious peer by having that peer assign priority information for every possible HTTP/2 stream ID. The priority tree would happily continue to store the priority information for each stream, and would therefore allocate unbounded amounts of memory. Attempting to actually use a tree like this would also cause extremely high CPU usage to maintain the tree.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MantisBT Filter API in MantisBT versions before 1.2.19, and versions 2.0.0-beta1, 1.3.0-beta1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the ‘view_type’ parameter.
eClinicalWorks Population Health (CCMR) suffers from a session fixation vulnerability. When authenticating a user, the application does not assign a new session ID, making it possible to use an existent session ID.