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SBA Security Advisory – Smarty – Trusted-Directory Bypass via Path Traversal (CVE-2018-13982)

September 18, 2018

Smarty 3.1.32 or below is prone to a path traversal vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of code in Smarty templates. This allows attackers controlling the Smarty template to bypass the trusted directory security restriction and read arbitrary files. We recommend to update Smarty to version 3.1.33 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

August 2, 2018

phpWhois and some of its forks in versions before 5.1.0 are prone to a code injection vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of returned WHOIS data. This allows attackers controlling the WHOIS information of a requested domain to execute arbitrary PHP code in the context of the application. We recommend to update phpWhois to version jsmitty12: 5.1.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

Study on EU-DSGVO

October 9, 2017

On behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), a research team consisting of cbased (Community-Based Innovation Systems), SBA Research, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), examines the impact of the data protection legislation (EU-DSGVO), which will become effective May 2018, on Big… Read More

Tomasz Miksa chairs the newly endorsed DMP Common Standards working group at the RDA

September 12, 2017

Tomasz Miksa has become the chair of the newly endorsed DMP Common Standards working group at the Research Data Alliance. He will present the goals of the group for the next 18 months at the 10th Research Data Alliance Plenary in Montreal, Canada. The group brings together a broad… Read More

Colloquium Talk by Dimitris Simos @ University of Bergamo

June 1, 2017

Dimitris Simos is invited to give a colloquium talk at the University of Bergamo, Italy regarding “combinatorial methods and algorithms in security testing”.

SBA Research @ e-day 2016

March 10, 2016

Markus Klemen @ e-day 2016 SBA Research contributed two talks to this years’ e-day of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Markus Klemen talked about loyalty and motivation of employees with regard to ethical issues and psychological considerations. Peter Kieseberg described current social engineering tricks and attack vectors. Peter… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – RXTEC RXAdmin – SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8298)

May 13, 2015

SQL injection vulnerability in the RXTEC RXAdmin Login Page allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via several HTTP parameter. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Polycom BToE Connector – Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8300)

May 13, 2015

Polycom BToE Connector up to version 2.3.0 allows unprivileged windows users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. We recommend to update Polycom BToE Connector to version 3.0.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – KNX management software ETS – remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-8299)

January 1, 2015

The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in a memcpy operation when parsing specailly crafted KNXnet/IP packets in the Group messages monitor (aka. Falcon). An according proof-of-concept exploit which was tested on an affected ETS version installed on a Windows XP SP3 can be found below. The proof-of-concept exploit generates the UDP packet which triggers the vulnerability and should at least crash the application (it requires python and scapy to run). Read More

Markus Klemen zum Thema Secure E-Government am VIS!T Symposium

October 28, 2014

Markus Klemen erläutert am heutigen VISI!T Symposium (Verwaltung integriert sichere Informationstechnologie) die Herausforderungen der aktuell laufenden KIRAS Studie zum Entwurf eines Zertifizierungsstandards für E-Government. Der Grundgedanke des Symposiums “Verwaltung integriert sichere Informationstechnologie” (ViS!T) ist die multilaterale Diskussion des Themas IT-Sicherheit (in Strategien, IT-Vorhaben, Projekten) in den vier deutschsprachigen europäischen Staaten Deutschland,… Read More

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