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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

Cisco IP Phones Web Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

While conducting research on a Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821, Tenable discovered a couple of vulnerabilities affecting numerous Cisco IP Phone models. CVE-2020-3161: Unauthenticated Stack-Based Buffer Overflow An unauthenticated remote...

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MikroTik WinBox Cleartext Password Storage

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

MikroTik's WinBox stores the user's cleartext password in a configuration file when the Keep Password option is selected. Keep Password is enabled by default. Specifically, the password is stored in...

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Grandstream GXP1600 Series Multiple Issues

Monday, April 13, 2020

While investigating the Grandstream GXP1625, Tenable found a couple of vulnerabilities that allow an authenticated remote attacker to gain root access. CVE-2020-5738: Authenticated RCE via Tar Upload A remote authenticated...

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Amcrest Camera/NVR Multiple Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Tenable has discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in the port 37777 interface found on a variety of Amcrest/Dahua IP camera and NVR devices. Initially, we verified these vulnerabilities to be...

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Grandstream UCM62xx Multiple SQL Injections

Monday, March 30, 2020

While investigating the Grandstream UCM6202 IP PBX, Tenable discovered a few SQL injections that an unauthenticated remote attacker could use to obtain user passwords. CVE-2020-5723: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information...

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Grandstream UCM62xx SQL Injection

Monday, March 23, 2020

While investigating the Grandstream UCM6202 IP PBX, Tenable discovered a previously patched but undisclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability, an SQL injection, can be used to achieve remote code execution in versions...

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Kodi Multiple Issues

Thursday, March 12, 2020

While investigating Kodi, Tenable found two issues. After discussions with Kodi, we hesitate to call these vulnerabilities, but the issues are severe and unexpected enough that we felt an advisory...

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MikroTik WinBox Path Traversal

Thursday, February 6, 2020

MikroTik WinBox before 3.21 is vulnerable to a path traversal issue that allows an attacker to write files anywhere on the system where WinBox has write privileges. When WinBox connects...

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Atlassian Jira Multiple CSRF

Monday, February 3, 2020

Tenable has discovered a couple of CSRF issues in Atlassian Jira before version 8.7.0 CVE-2019-20098: CSRF via SMTP Server Connection Testing When configuring an SMTP Server Connection, the “Test Connection”...

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MikroTik WinBox Man-in-the-Middle Password Hash Disclosure

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Version 6.43 of RouterOS included a changelog indicating: !) winbox - improved authentication process excluding man-in-the-middle possibility; The change involved the RouterOS WinBox interface (port 8291) switching the key agreement...

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