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New LABRAT Campaign Exploits GitLab Flaw for Cryptojacking and Proxyjacking Activities

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()3 min read1 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2021-22205
Unauthenticated RCE in GitLab CE/EE via ExifTool Image Parsing (CVE-2021-22205)
10.0100%KEVRansomwarePoC ×2
KEV
CVE-2021-4034
Out-of-Bounds Read/Write Local Privilege Escalation in polkit pkexec (PwnKit)
7.895%KEVRansomwarePoC ×4
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
domaintrycloudflare.comIt launches a process that generates a random subdomain on trycloudflare.com, thereby allowing internal resources to be exposed to the p

From the original article

3 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Aug 17, 2023 Cryptojacking / Proxyjacking A new, financially motivated operation dubbed LABRAT has been observed weaponizing a now-patched critical flaw in GitLab as part of a cryptojacking and proxyjacking campaign.

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