cPanel TSR-2015-0005 Announcement

Simply patching systems against the Bash/Shellshock vulnerability may not be adequate. Attacks exploiting the flaw appeared within a day of its disclosure. Those attacks may have made changes to systems that would not be remedied by the application of a patch.

WordPress 4.7.2 was released last Thursday, January 26th. WordPress have just announced that In addition to the three security vulnerabilities mentioned in the original release post, WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 had one additional vulnerability for which disclosure was delayed.

An update for LiteSpeed 4 & 5 was just released to address a security vulnerability within OpenSSL (CVE-2015-1793) and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

A vulnerability in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) feature of Intel processors appears relatively easy to abusive. A remote control authentication screen can be bypassed using a blank string through a proxy server. AMT lets sysadmins perform powerful tasks over a remote connection.

An update for Xen was just released to address two major security vulnerabilities and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

cPanel is a popular web based control panel tool which will help you manage your web hosting account through a web interface instead of a console. cPanel has released updates that provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available…

The OpenSSL project team would like to announce the forthcoming release of OpenSSL versions 1.0.2d and 1.0.1p. These releases will be made available on 9th July. They will fix a single security defect classified as “high” severity. This defect does not affect the 1.0.0 or 0.9.8 releases.

Oakley Capital, the venture capitalist in recent years responsible for multiple acquisitions in the hosting landscape, has reared its ugly head yet again. Popular software such as the cPanel and Plesk web hosting control panels, WHMCS billing system and SolusVM virtualization management platform were already under the umbrella of…

VMware has fixed a critical flaw in its vCenter Server that could be exploited to execute code remotely. The vulnerability affects vCenter versions 6.5 and 6.0. Users are urged to upgrade to versions 6.5c or 6.0U3b. US-CERT warned about the vulnerability, stressing exploitation could result in an attacker taking…

Over the past two years, processors, in particular processors made by Intel, have been targeted by an unending series of attacks that have made it possible for skilled attackers to intercept passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets out of data stored in resident memory.

An update for Magento was just released to address a critical security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. Official Link: http://bit.ly/1flmoA8 Source: hostingseclist.com

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the popular Code Snippets plugin for WordPress. The flaw allowed anybody to forge a request on behalf of an administrator and inject executable code on a vulnerable site. This is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution…

According to a Google Security Researcher who was able to defeat all of the current patches and make the vulnerability easier to exploit, they are now recommending the following unofficial patch until it is pushed upstream: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/13 Further Information: “http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx source: hostingseclist

  cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers of the cPanel control panel. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system.

Newsletter, a free WordPress plugin with more than 300,000 installations, was found to contain multiple vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to the takeover of an affected website. The bugs were discovered by the Wordfence team who notified the developer of the plugin.