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Jacob Baines

Principal Research Engineer, Zero Day Research

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Jacob joined Tenable in 2015 as a reverse engineer for the Nessus plugins team where he analyzed remote code execution vulnerabilities and developed plugins. He was very involved in the team’s malware scanning and YARA implementations. Since joining Tenable, Jacob has 64 CVEs and 51 research advisories credited to his name. He is the founding member of the Zero Day Research team.

In his free time, Jacob enjoys running (slowly), reading, good beer, occasionally contributing to open source projects, and maintaining a regrettably large garden.

Research Advisory

MikroTik RouterOS Multiple Vulnerabilities

Monday, October 28, 2019

CVE-2019-3976: Relative Path Traversal in NPK Parsing RouterOS 6.45.6 Stable, RouterOS 6.44.5 Long-term, and below are vulnerable to an arbitrary directory creation vulnerability via the upgrade package's name field. If...

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Amcrest IP Camera Multiple Vulnerabilities

Monday, July 29, 2019

Tenable spent some time examining the Amcrest IP2M-841 IP camera. We found the following: CVE-2019-3948: Unauthenticated Remote Audio Streaming Over HTTP The camera exposes the HTTP endpoint videotalk . This...

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Cisco RV110W, RV130W, and RV215W Routers Multiple Vulnerabilities

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

CVE-2019-1897: Guest Network Denial of Service There is no authentication on guest_logout.cgi. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can leverage this to kick users from the guest network. To achieve this the...

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Fuji Electric V-Server Denial of Service and Information Disclosure

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

CVE-2019-3946: Unauthenticated, Remote Denial of Service Tenable discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Fuji Electric's V-Server before version 6.0.33.0. The denial of service is the result of an integer...

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OEM Presentation Platform Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Tenable found multiple vulnerabilities while investigating a Crestron AM-100. Tenable also discovered that the Crestron AM-100 shared a code base with the Barco wePresent, Extron ShareLink, InFocus LiteShow, TEQ AV...

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MikroTik RouterOS Authenticated Directory Traversal

Monday, April 8, 2019

Tenable discovered a vulnerability while analyzing MikroTik's RouterOS 6.42.12 (a long-term release). The vulnerability is an authenticated, remote directory traversal that gives an authenticated attacker mkdir , read , and...

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Multiple Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities

Thursday, April 4, 2019

While performing research for CVE-2017-16720 and CVE-2018-18999 , Tenable found multiple vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA version 8.3.4. CVE-2019-3940: Unauthenticated File Upload RCE Advantech WebAccess/SCADA version 8.3.3 introduced changes in the...

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MikroTik RouterOS Unauthenticated Intermediary

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

MikroTik's The Dude has a network discovery feature that sends user defined probes to discover network services. There are various pre-defined probes for HTTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. This network scanning...

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Crestron DGE-100 Unauthenticated Remote Denial of Service

Monday, February 4, 2019

While investigating a Crestron DGE-100, Tenable discovered that a remote unauthenticated attacker could change the device's name via a crafted UDP request to port 41794. Furthermore, after a name change...

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[R1] Crestron AM-100 Authentication Bypass

Thursday, January 10, 2019

While doing patch analysis on the Crestron AM-100, Tenable discovered a backdoor had been removed in the most recent firmware version (1.6.0.2). Tenable found no documentation for this patch. After...

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