{"id":178635,"date":"2023-12-19T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/8220-gang-exploiting-oracle-weblogic-server-vulnerability-to-spread-malware"},"modified":"2023-12-19T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:23:08","slug":"8220-gang-exploiting-oracle-weblogic-server-vulnerability-to-spread-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/8220-gang-exploiting-oracle-weblogic-server-vulnerability-to-spread-malware","title":{"rendered":"8220 Gang Exploiting Oracle WebLogic Server Vulnerability to Spread Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8220-gang-exploiting-oracle-weblogic-server-vulnerability-to-spread-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threat actors associated with the <strong>8220 Gang<\/strong> have been observed exploiting a high-severity flaw in Oracle WebLogic Server to propagate their malware.<\/p>\n<p>The security shortcoming is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2020-14883\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2020\u201314883<\/a> (CVSS score: 7.2), a remote code execution bug that could be exploited by authenticated attackers to take over susceptible servers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vulnerability allows remote authenticated attackers to execute code using a gadget chain and is commonly chained with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2020-14882\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2020\u201314882<\/a> (an authentication bypass vulnerability also affecting Oracle Weblogic Server) or the use of leaked, stolen, or weak credentials,\u201d Imperva <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperva.com\/blog\/imperva-detects-undocumented-8220-gang-activities\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report published last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat actors associated with the 8220 Gang have been observed exploiting a high-severity flaw in Oracle WebLogic Server to propagate their malware. The security shortcoming is CVE-2020\u201314883 (CVSS score: 7.2), a remote code execution bug that could be exploited by authenticated attackers to take over susceptible servers. \u201cThis vulnerability allows remote authenticated attackers to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}