Barracuda Email Security Gateways bitten by data thieves
posted on Tuesday, however, the vendor disclosed that the vulnerability was under active exploit long before the patch arrived. The flaw, which affects versions 5.1.3.001 to 9.2.0.006 of the ESG appliance, can and has been abused to run remote commands on targeted equipment, hijack them, and deploy data-stealing spyware on the boxes.
Soon after spotting abnormal traffic originating from its email security products, Barracuda called in Mandiant to help with an investigation. The biz declined to say how many customers were compromised, and who has been exploiting the vulnerability. It claimsLast Friday, the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency The flaw, a remote command injection vulnerability, is due to incomplete input validation of a user-supplied .tar archive. Remote attackers can format the filenames in that archive in a way that allows them to execute a system command through Perl's qx operator when the file is processed.
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