Cisco Talos Blog

October 12, 2022 15:33

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple issues in Robustel R1510 cellular router could lead to code execution, denial of service

Cisco Talos recently discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router, several of which could allow an adversary to inject operating system code remotely.

September 22, 2022 05:00

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in popular library affect Unix-based devices

TALOS-2022-1517 (CVE-2022-29503 - CVE-2022-29504) is a memory corruption vulnerability in uClibC and uClibc-ng that can occur if a malicious user repeatedly creates threads.

August 16, 2022 11:54

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in WWBN AVideo web app could lead to command injection, authentication bypass

Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the WWBN AVideo web application that could allow an attacker to carry out a wide range of malicious actions, including command injection and authentication bypass. AVideo is an open-source web application that allows us

August 16, 2022 10:03

Vulnerability Spotlight: Three vulnerabilities in HDF5 file format could lead to remote code execution

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in a library that works with the HDF5 file format that could allow an attacker to execute remote code on a targeted device. These issues arise in the libhdf5 gif

August 3, 2022 14:46

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Alyac antivirus program could stop virus scanning, cause code execution

Jaewon Min of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Update (Aug. 3, 2022): Talos disclosed two new vulnerabilities in the Alyac antivirus software and added their details to this post. Cisco Talos recently discovered out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow vulnerabilitie

August 1, 2022 12:18

Vulnerability Spotlight: How misusing properly serialized data opened TCL LinkHub Mesh Wi-Fi system to 17 vulnerabilities

The TCL LinkHub Mesh Wi-Fi system is a multi-device Wi-Fi system that allows users to expand access to their network over a large physical area. What makes the LInkHub system unique is the lack of a network interface to manage the devices individually or in the mesh. Instead, a p

July 27, 2022 12:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: How a code re-use issue led to vulnerabilities across multiple products

Recently, I was performing some research on a wireless router and noticed the following piece of code: This unescape function will revert the URL encoded bytes to its original form. But something specifically caught my attention: There was no size check for the performed operati

July 19, 2022 08:45

Vulnerability Spotlight: Issue in Accusoft ImageGear could lead to memory corruption, code execution

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Accusoft ImageGear's PSD header processing function. The ImageGear library is a document-imaging developer toolkit that allows users to create

July 14, 2022 10:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGPU

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome’s WebGPU standard. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser — and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser that