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VP of Product Management, Web Application Security, Qualys
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Jason Kent is Vice President, Web Application Security Product Management at Qualys. Prior to that, he held technical security positions at Veracode, BlueCoat, Aruba, and Verizon. Through more than a decade of dedicated AppSec experience, he has established expertise in AppSec PenTesting, AppSec program architecture, and AppSec tools. His efforts helping Fortune 500 companies to maintain continuous security and compliance spans application security, infrastructure security, wireless security, and physical security. Jason has spoken at conferences such as ISC2 Security Congress, Northeastern OWASP events, and for Qualys at RSA and Black Hat. A US Navy Submarine Force Veteran, Jason is also passionate about putting security people together with their stakeholders.
Articles by Jason Kent
Higher Education: 15 Books to Help Cybersecurity Pros Be Better
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
Bug Hunting Paves Path to Infosec Careers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
'PowerSnitch' Hacks Androids via Power Banks
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  12/8/2018
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CVE-2018-20127
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-13
An issue was discovered in zzzphp cms 1.5.8. del_file in /admin/save.php allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a mixed-case extension and an extra '.' character, because (for example) "php" is blocked but path=F:/1.phP. succeeds.
CVE-2018-20128
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-13
An issue was discovered in UsualToolCMS v8.0. cmsadmin\a_sqlback.php allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a backname[] directory-traversal pathname followed by a crafted substring.
CVE-2018-20129
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-13
An issue was discovered in DedeCMS V5.7 SP2. uploads/include/dialog/select_images_post.php allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via a double extension and a modified ".php" substring, in conjunction with the image/jpeg content type, as demonstrated by the filena...
CVE-2018-6706
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-12
Insecure handling of temporary files in non-Windows McAfee Agent 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows an Unprivileged User to introduce custom paths during agent installation in Linux via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2018-6705
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-12
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.