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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.

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Identifying Empire HTTP Listeners

Empire is a popular open source post-exploitation framework. The framework can very roughly be broken down into two parts: agents and listeners. An agent is an implant that lives on the victim’s computer.

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[R2] Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway G1100 Remote Information Disclosure

While testing improvements to the Nessus UPnP implementation we found an information disclosure vulnerability in Verizon's Fios Quantum Gateway G1100. The G1100 has three listening UPnP servers. One the user can disable and two they cannot.

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[R1] Wanscam Network Camera Multiple Vulnerabiltiies

While investigating Pierre Kim's disclosure, Multiple vulnerabilities found in Wireless IP Camera (P2P) WIFICAM cameras and vulnerabilities in custom http server, Tenable came across a couple of vulnerabilities in Wanscam's HW0021 network camera.

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[R1] HPE Universal Configuration Management Database Multiple Vulnerabilities

Tenable uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in HPE Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) and its components. CVE-2017-14351 A remote unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code through a Java deserialization vulnerability in UCMDB CM.

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[R1] ManageEngine ServiceDesk Multiple Vulnerabilties

Tenable uncovered a handful of new vulnerabilities in ManageEngine ServiceDesk. This is not Tenable's first go around with ManageEngine ServiceDesk. If you look at our previous advisory you'll see that it took nearly two years to resolve a reflected XSS vulnerability.

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[R1] HPE Operations Orchestration Central Remoting Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution

The central-remoting endpoints in HPE Operations Orchestration 10.70 all use the class OOHttpInvokerServiceExporter to handle requests. A properly crafted HTTP POST request to any of the following URLs will trigger deserialization of untrusted data in OOHttpInvokerServiceExporter:

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[R2] HPE Operations Orchestration Incomplete Fix for CVE-2016-8519

Tenable originally published the details of CVE-2016-8519, a Java deserialization vulnerability in HPE Operations Orchestrations, in TRA-2017-05.

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[R1] Cisco Security Manager and Prime LMS Java Deserialization Remote Code Execution

In late 2015, Cisco generated a long list of products that might be vulnerable to Java deserialization attacks.

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[R1] ReadyMedia HTTP Request Denial of Service

According to the project's website, "ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA) is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. It is developed by a NETGEAR employee for the ReadyNAS product line."

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Rooting a Printer: From Security Bulletin to Remote Code Execution

Printers. They are everywhere. In big businesses. In small businesses. In our homes. In our schools. Wherever you go, there they are. But where are they in your threat model? When was the last time you updated the firmware? Do you know if there are public exploits for your printer?

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