How to Prevent Attacker from Abusing IPv4-embedded IPv6 to Bypass Security Mechanism?

Section 5.3 of RFC6052 explained how an attacker could abuse the NAT64 translation mechanism to bypass security mechanism such as firewall or IDS/IPS if those devices only have an IPv4 blacklist. The mitigation is to convert the IPv4-embed… Continue reading How to Prevent Attacker from Abusing IPv4-embedded IPv6 to Bypass Security Mechanism?

Is disabling IPv6 an effective workaround for "Bad Neighbor" Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898)?

CVE-2020-16898 is a remote code execution vulnerability caused by the improper handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets by Windows TCP/IP stack. Microsoft’s recommended workaround is to disable ICMPv6 RDNSS component.
My question is… Continue reading Is disabling IPv6 an effective workaround for "Bad Neighbor" Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898)?

Community detection: CVE-2020-16898

By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the way that Windows TCP/IP handles IPv6 “Router Advertisement” ICMP messages. Due to the severity and wide scop… Continue reading Community detection: CVE-2020-16898