Metasploit Wrap-Up
It’s Summertime, and the Hackin’ is Easy It is still early in the season, but there’s a whole lot of fixes that are already shipping. Straight off a week of intellectual synergy from the world-wide hackathon, we started to fix a lot of…
Heap Overflow Exploitation on Windows 10 Explained
Heap corruption can be a scary topic. In this post, we go through a basic example of a heap overflow on Windows 10.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Read up on how the recent community hackathon in Austin went, three new modules, and the usual long list of fixes and enhancements.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Unauthenticated scanner for BlueKeep, community hackathon in Austin, and the usual long list of fixes and enhancements.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
BSD love Outside of macOS, not many people run (or run into) a BSD-flavored system very often. Even still, bcoles and space-r7 teamed up for a pair of BSD enhancements. The first, a privilege escalation, affects FreeBSD's runtime linker dealing with LD_PRELOAD in FreeBSD…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Take a moment from this week's barrage of vulnerabilities in seemingly everything to see the cool stuff happening with the Metasploit team of contributors: a video interview between two greats, a new exploit module in GetSimple CMS, and a whole host of improvements.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
A new Chrome browser exploit, some WebLogic RCE, and an exploit for PostgreSQL. Also announcing the return of our annual Open-Source Security Meetup in Vegas!…
WebLogic Deserialization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-2725): What You Need to Know
Oracle has released an out-of-band security advisory and set of patches for Oracle WebLogic Server versions 10.3.6.0 and 12.1.3.0.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Better persistence options thanks to two new modules for Yum and APT package managers. Plus, new exploits for Rails DoubleTap and Spring Cloud Config.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Faster tab completion for `set PAYLOAD` and faster output for `show payloads`. Plus, four new exploits, including unauthenticated template injection for Atlassian Confluence and Ruby on Rails DoubleTap directory traversal.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
A more useful use command From among the many musings of longtime contributor/team member Brent Cook, in a combined effort with the ever-present wvu, the use command has become so much more useful. PR 11724 takes new functionality from search -u one step further…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
WordPress RCE tiyeuse submitted a Metasploit module for an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in WordPress, which was described in a blog post by RIPS Technology. After authenticating as a user with at least author privileges, the module starts by uploading an image file with…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Your workflow just got easier Are you tired of copy/pasting module names from the search results before you can use them? Thanks to this enhancement (PR #11652) by Brent Cook, you can now run search with the -u flag to automatically use a module…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Introducing Metasploit Development Diaries We are happy to introduce a new quarterly series, the Metasploit Development Diaries. The dev diaries walk users and developers through some example exploits and give detailed analysis of how the exploits operate and how Metasploit evaluates vulnerabilities for inclusion in…
Introducing the Metasploit Development Diaries
In our new Metasploit Development Diaries series, we will share stories of how exploitable conditions become stable, seasoned Metasploit Framework modules.…
