Vulnerabilities in Printix Cloud Print Management
During a penetation test of a cloud environment, Pentagrid observed vulnerabilities in the cloud printing solution developed by Printix.net ApS, a Kofax subsidiary.
We are hiring Security Analysts
To extend our technical team at Pentagrid, we are looking for talented people with an interest in new things, passion for technology and commitment. Currently, we are looking for Junior and Senior IT Security Analysts in Berlin and Buchs SG.
Teaching Burp a new HTTP Transport Encoding
Today we would like to talk about Burp Suite Professional and extensions again. In this blog post we explain how we can teach Burp Suite to handle a custom Transport Encoding that is spoken between an HTTP client and a server by using Burp extensions.
Response Overview Burp Extension
Today we would like to announce the release of an updated BurpSuite extension in the BApp store.
Shreddy2 – Ein Raspberry Pi als Löschstation für USB-Sticks
"Delete early, delete often" ist das leicht abgewandelte Motto, dass daran erinnert, Datenlecks durch verlorene oder gestohlene USB-Sticks mittels regelmäßigem Löschen zu minimieren. Sind Sie es leid, beim Formatieren eines USB-Sticks auf Ihrem lokalen Computer darauf zu achten, nicht versehentlich das falsche Gerät zu löschen? Um den Vorgang zu vereinfachen, haben wir eine USB-Löschstation als Software auf einem Raspberry Pi implementiert. Die Software wartet drauf, dass ein USB-Stick angeschlossen wird. Der wird dann bereinigt. Also: shreddy, ready, go!
Password reset code brute-force vulnerability in AWS Cognito
The password reset function of AWS Cognito allows attackers to change the account password if a six-digit number (reset code) sent out by E-mail is correctly entered. By using concurrent HTTP request techniques, it was shown that an attacker can do more guesses on this number than mentioned in the AWS documentation (1587 instead of 20). If the attack succeeds and the attacked accounts do not have multi-factor authentication enabled, a full take-over of the attacked AWS Cognito user accounts would have been possible. The issue was fixed by AWS on 2021-04-20.
Burp Suite - solving E-mail and SMS TAN multi-factor authentication with Hackvertor custom tags
Why bother investing time to automate work when doing IT security testing? On one hand, manual testing is a tedious work, where you spend time doing vulnerability tests that could be done by a machine. On the other hand, letting a machine decide fully on its own on how to do tests will mostly result in the machine doing nothing useful. This is especially true for security testing, where manually checking every parameter for injection attacks is very laborious and automated security scanners go on scanning for hours while a human would have aborted the scan for various reasons. However, if we teach automated tools to do things correctly each time, we get the sweet middle spot of semi-automated security testing, where the tools do the automatic and systematic security tests and the analyst can focus on the parts of a security test, where the tools are likely insufficient.
Burp Suite Pro is one of the main tools to do all kind of HTTP related security analysis and that supports a semi-automated testing. But now and then it lacks certain features. Burp extensions can again add some of them. In this post we would like to show how to use one of the most powerful extensions, Hackvertor by Gareth Hayes and its relatively new feature of Python scripting.
"SCS in a nutshell"-Interview über Penetrationstests versus Bug-Bounty-Programme
Christian Folin vom Swiss Cyber Storm lud den freiberuflichen Bug-Bounty-Jäger Raphaël Arrouas und den IT-Sicherheitsanalysten Tobias Ospelt von der Pentagrid AG zu einem Interview über Vor- und Nachteile von Penetrationstests und Bug-Bounty-Programmen ein. Das Interview fand im Rahmen des Formats "SCS in a nutshell" statt. Während beide Ansätze valide Methoden für das Testen auf Sicherheitsproblemen sind, unterscheiden sie sich auch in vielen Aspekten.
Block browser requests to Google during security analysis in Burp
How to stop Portswigger's Burp Proxy's built-in Chromium browser to leak information to Google's Safe Browsing during a web application penetration test?
Security issues in TeamPasswordManager and Combodo iTop (CVE-2019-19461, CVE-2019-19821)
In 2019 we looked at various products that are used by our customers. This post mentions two rather low hanging fruits that might be still important if the software is used due to their potential impact. These vulnerabilities affect TeamPasswordManager and Combodo iTop.