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AI Tool Identifies BOLA Vulnerabilities in Easy!Appointments

Unit 42's AI-powered tool found 15 BOLA vulnerabilities in Easy!Appointments, rated up to CVSS 9.9, letting low-privileged users escalate privileges; fixed in 1.5.0.

Unit 42's automated BOLA detection tool, built on generative AI, uncovered 15 broken object-level authorization flaws in the open-source scheduling application Easy!Appointments, tracked as CVE-2023-3285 through CVE-2023-3290 and CVE-2023-38047 through CVE-2023-38055. Nine flaws scored CVSS 9.9, letting logged-in customers view or manipulate appointments and accounts of providers and admins, including creating admin users for privilege escalation. The maintainers patched all issues in version 1.5.0. The same tool previously found a BOLA in Grafana (CVE-2024-1313).

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia

Australian Federal Police arrested two alleged TeamPCP members, a data extortion group tied to prolonged software supply chain attacks.

The Australian Federal Police arrested two unnamed suspects from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP. The group is described as a cybercrime and data extortion syndicate blamed for the longest-running spree of software supply chain attacks, allegedly creating malicious open-source software that hit thousands of global businesses. KrebsOnSecurity had identified the 21-year-old suspect in June and had been in contact with him.

Krebs on Security · 20d agoPolicy & legal