The global impact of COVID-19 has been profound, and the public health threat it represents is the most serious seen in a respiratory virus since the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic. This report presents the results of epidemiological modeling which has informed policymaking in the UK and other countries in recent weeks.

The Air Contacts Lite iPhone / iPod application suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

The Twitter 5.0 application for iPhone grabs images over HTTP and due to this, allows for a man in the middle attack / image swap. Proof of concept included.

Air Disk Wireless version 1.9 for iPad and iPhone suffers from local file inclusion and command injection vulnerabilities.

Transferable Remote version 1.1 for iPad and iPhone suffers from cross site scripting, remote command injection, and local file inclusion vulnerabilities.

114 bytes small Linux/x86 bind shell generator shellcode.

qdPM versions prior to 9.1 suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability that allows for remote code execution.

graph_realtime.php in Cacti 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a cookie if a guest user has the graph real-time privilege.

This Metasploit module exploits a flaw where an authenticated user with sufficient administrative rights to manage pollers can use this functionality to execute arbitrary commands remotely. Usually, the miscellaneous commands are used by the additional modules (to perform certain actions), by the scheduler for data processing, etc. This module uses this functionality to obtain a remote shell on the target.

This Metasploit module exploits a shell command injection vulnerability in the libnotify plugin. This vulnerability affects Metasploit versions 5.0.79 and earlier.

80 bytes small Linux/x86 reverse shell generator shellcode with customizable TCP port and IP address.

TP-LINK Cloud Cameras including products NC200, NC210, NC220, NC230, NC250, NC260, and NC450 suffer from a command injection vulnerability. The issue is located in the swSystemSetProductAliasCheck method of the ipcamera binary (Called when setting a new alias for the device via /setsysname.fcgi), where despite a check on the name length, no other checks are in place in order to prevent shell metacharacters from being introduced. The system name would then be used in swBonjourStartHTTP as part of a shell command where arbitrary commands could be injected and executed as root.

IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) contains three vulnerabilities that can be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution as root. The first is an unauthenticated bypass, followed by a command injection as the server user, and finally abuse of an insecure default password. This module exploits all three vulnerabilities, giving the attacker a root shell. At the time of disclosure, this is a 0day. Versions 2.0.3 and below are confirmed to be affected, and the latest 2.0.6 is most likely affected too.

Cyprus is ranked first in fDi’s Island Economies of the Future rankings, followed by the Dominican Republic and Sri Lanka. Cathy Mullan and Naomi Davies detail the results.

Russia remains fDi’s most diversified commodity economy, while second ranked Brazil has displaced Ukraine into third place. Cathy Mullan reports.