From Prototype Pollution to full-on remote code execution, how can adversaries exploit npm modules?

By Ax Sharma on August 19, 2020 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

August's Nexus Intelligence Insight looks at the NodeJS component express-fileupload which now has a critical Prototype Pollution vulnerability.
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Sonatype Intelligence Insights: CVE-2020-13935 - Apache Tomcat Websocket - Denial of Service (DoS)

By Ax Sharma on July 29, 2020 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

July’s Nexus Intelligence Insight takes a deep dive into a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability impacting the popular Apache Tomcat Websocket component.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: xlsx aka SheetJS - Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) and sonatype-2018-0622

By Ax Sharma on May 06, 2020 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

The ReDoS vulnerability impacting the popular npm component SheetJS, also known as “xlsx,” was thought to be remedied through a fix, but no, not so fast.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: Protect Your Bitcoin from 700+ Malicious RubyGems with sonatype-2020-0196

By Ax Sharma on April 23, 2020 vulnerability

3 minute read time

Crafty attackers take advantage of the open source software supply chain through typographical errors. Not even the most sophisticated devs are immune.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: CVE-2019-3773 Spring Web Services XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

By Ax Sharma on March 18, 2020 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

This Nexus Intelligence Insight covers CVE-2019-3773: cross site scripting vulnerabilities in Spring Web Services XML External Entity Injection (XXE).
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: What's in a Ghostcat? CVE-2020-1938 Apache Tomcat - Local File Inclusion Potentially Leads to RCE

By Ax Sharma on March 09, 2020 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

Ghostcat manipulates the widely used Apache Tomcat web server. No version of Tomcat released in the last 13 years is immune, unless properly patched.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights CVE-2020-2100: Jenkins - UDP Amplification Reflection Attack Leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

By Ax Sharma on February 12, 2020 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

CVE-2020-2100 takes advantage of the fact that, by default, both UDP multicast/broadcast and DNS multicast traffic is enabled on Jenkins. Here's what to do.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: Sonatype - 2020-0003 - npm Malicious Package 1337qq-js

By Elisa Velarde on January 15, 2020 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

In this month's Nexus Intelligence Insights, we cover Sonatype-2020-0003: npm malicious package 1337qq-js. Here's why it made noise but had no impact.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: CVE-2018-5382 Bouncycastle Information Exposure

By Elisa Velarde on December 26, 2019 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

In this month's Nexus Intelligence Insights, we're covering CVE-2018-5382: Information exposure in the bouncycastle component
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