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Botnet Hunting for Vulnerabilities in Diagnostic Tools, (Tue, Aug 4th)
Medium
Summary
A SANS Internet Storm Center alert highlights a botnet actively scanning for vulnerabilities in diagnostic tools. The issue stems from a common practice of diagnostic tools executing operating system commands directly, often without proper separation of user-provided input, leading to command injection vulnerabilities. Using functions like `os.system` or `exec` can introduce these risks, and the solution lies in carefully separating user data from commands.
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