Detecting Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) with Zeek

By Yacin Nadji, Corelight Security Researcher CVE-2020-1472 aka Zerologon, disclosed by Tom Tervoort of Secura, is an illustrative case study of how a small implementation mistake in cryptographic routines cascades into a privilege escalation vulnerabi… Continue reading Detecting Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) with Zeek

ROBOT Attack Revives a 19-Year Old Vulnerability

Daniel Bleichenbacher was the security researcher who first discovered, in 1998, that PKCS #1 v1.5 padding error messages sent by a Transport Layer Security (TLS) stack running on a server could enable an adaptive-chosen ciphertext attack. When used in… Continue reading ROBOT Attack Revives a 19-Year Old Vulnerability