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Content tagged with Database Security posted in September 2013
Only Ho-Hum Security Holes Ahead For In-Memory DB
News  |  9/30/2013  | 
Oracle's new performance features shouldn't pose any unique risks, experts say
Medical Device Security: A Work In Progress
News  |  9/30/2013  | 
Healthcare organizations vary widely in how prepared they are to handle breaches of medical devices, says Deloitte report.
The Big Data Is The New Normal
Commentary  |  9/24/2013  | 
Big data, not relational, is the new platform of choice
Database Misconfigurations: Windows To Vulnerable Data
News  |  9/17/2013  | 
Experts recommend developing configuration baselines and regularly comparing database configurations to those standards to prevent configuration drift
Feds Seek To Educate Patients On Info Sharing
News  |  9/17/2013  | 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers guidelines and open-source software that healthcare institutions can use to help patients understand what they are agreeing to.
PII And Entitlement Management
Commentary  |  9/9/2013  | 
Data discovery and entitlement tools offer a better alternative to role-based access reports for compliance
Do You Know Where Your Databases Are?
News  |  9/3/2013  | 
Database discovery and important first step to securing sensitive data stores


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PUBLISHED: 2018-05-26
The Werewolf Online application 0.8.8 for Android allows attackers to discover the Firebase token by reading logcat output.
CVE-2018-6409
PUBLISHED: 2018-05-26
An issue was discovered in Appnitro MachForm before 4.2.3. The module in charge of serving stored files gets the path from the database. Modifying the name of the file to serve on the corresponding ap_form table leads to a path traversal vulnerability via the download.php q parameter.
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PUBLISHED: 2018-05-26
An issue was discovered in Appnitro MachForm before 4.2.3. There is a download.php SQL injection via the q parameter.
CVE-2018-6411
PUBLISHED: 2018-05-26
An issue was discovered in Appnitro MachForm before 4.2.3. When the form is set to filter a blacklist, it automatically adds dangerous extensions to the filters. If the filter is set to a whitelist, the dangerous extensions can be bypassed through ap_form_elements SQL Injection.
CVE-2018-11500
PUBLISHED: 2018-05-26
An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4.0.20180210. There is a CSRF vulnerability in "admin/sysUser/save.do?callbackType=closeCurrent&navTabId=sysUser/list" that can add an admin account.