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Principal Threat Intelligence Researcher at Alert Logic
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Matt Downing is a Principal Threat Researcher at Alert Logic. In this role, he investigates the tactics and techniques hackers employ to attack Alert Logic's wide customer base. He has previously held various technical and security roles in the financial sector and Department of Defense.
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CVE-2019-19729
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-11
An issue was discovered in the BSON ObjectID (aka bson-objectid) package 1.3.0 for Node.js. ObjectID() allows an attacker to generate a malformed objectid by inserting an additional property to the user-input, because bson-objectid will return early if it detects _bsontype==ObjectID in the user-inpu...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-11
An issue was discovered in Squiz Matrix CMS 5.5.0 prior to 5.5.0.3, 5.5.1 prior to 5.5.1.8, 5.5.2 prior to 5.5.2.4, and 5.5.3 prior to 5.5.3.3 where a user can trigger arbitrary unserialization of a PHP object from a packages/cms/page_templates/page_remote_content/page_remote_content.inc POST parame...
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includes/libs/IEUrlExtension.php in the MediaWiki API in MediaWiki 1.19.x before 1.19.8, 1.20.x before 1.20.7, and 1.21.x before 1.21.2 does not properly detect extensions when there are an even number of "." (period) characters in a string, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-s...