Thursday, March 1, 2018

A web service running as root user - This happened for HTTPS certificate reseller (Trustico). Guess what - their website goes down. I wonder why?




The vulnerability could be leveraged by miscreants to execute arbitrary commands on the website's host server. A lack of input sanitization allowed carefully crafted commands, submitted as a URL in a web form, to be run on the underlying Linux-powered system, as root no less, meaning anyone who found and exploited the bug could take over the dot-com's web servers.

On Thursday morning, Serbian security researcher Predrag Cujanović tweeted details of a critical flaw in Trustico's website. The site was pulled offline – it just returns a 503 error



https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/trustico_website_offline/

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