Preface: Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a set of central processing unit instruction codes from Intel that allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, that are protected from processes running at higher privilege levels.

SGX design limitation:
L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow found in August 2018. Foreshadow enables an attacker to extract SGX sealing keys, previously sealed data can be modified and re-seal.

The Foreshadow / L1-terminal-fault attack were assigned the following CVE numbers:
CVE-2018-3615 for attacking SGX.
CVE-2018-3620 for attacking the OS Kernel and SMM mode.
CVE-2018-3646 for attacking virtual machines.

Remedy:

Regarding to this vulnerability. Siemens Security Advisory by Siemens Product has following announcement to their product. For more details, please see below:

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254686.pdf

Preface: One of the biggest successes of the iPhone is its security. Still No Major Malware found on iPhone.

Current possible infection methods:
1. iOS process named “iBoot” that starts up the system when you first turn on your iPhone and ensures the code being run is valid and originates from Apple. Hacker mimic counterfeit firmware may have way to compromise Apple iOS devices.

2. Malware compromised windows OS, exploit this channel implant malicious code to 3rd party iOS app then install to Apple iOS devices.

3. Man-in-the-middle -attack: On 2016, found a program called “爱思助手 (Aisi Helper),” which acts as the “man-in-the-middle” attack. Aisi Helper silently installs a malicious app to any connected iOS devices. It appears that the malicious app connects to a third-party iOS app and game store that asks users to enter their Apple ID passwords then implant malicious code to 3rd party Preventive maintenance:

Following official suggestion to enhance your iOS devices (see below)

iOS – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209340

iTunes – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209345

Safari – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209344

iCloud – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209346

Preface:

As of 2018, expert estimates that Google Chrome has a 68% worldwide usage share of web browsers as a desktop browser. It also has 61% market share across all platforms combined. Moreover it has over 50% share on smartphones.

Technical features:
Google chrome not only a web browser. It contained friendly capabilities.
How to enable Material Design?
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google LLC.
If you are interested of Google Chrome with its secret Material Design. You can following below details for reference.

Chrome-desktop:
Go to the URL bar and type – chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md

Chrome-iOS:
Go to the URL bar and type – chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md

Chrome design weakness – Found Nov 2018
Since there are several items of issue found. Following details of items bring to my interest.
Out of bounds write in V8 – High CVE-2018-17480, CVE-2018-18342
Use after frees in PDFium – High CVE-2018-17481, CVE-2018-18336, CVE-2018-18343

Should you have interested, please refer to official announcement for reference

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20updates

Preface:

NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards are built for the ultimate PC gaming experience, delivering amazing performance, immersive VR gaming, and high-res graphics.

Technical background:
GeForce Experience is the companion application to your GeForce GTX graphics card. It keeps your drivers up to date and automatically optimizes your game settings.

Vulnerability details announced on Nov 2018:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4740

CVE‑2018‑6263 – NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in all versions prior to 3.16 on Windows in which an attacker who has access to a local user account can plant a malicious dynamic link library (DLL) during application installation, which may lead to escalation of privileges.

CVE‑2018‑6265 – NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in all versions prior to 3.16 during application installation on Windows 7 in elevated privilege mode, where a local user who initiates a browser session may obtain escalation of privileges on the browser.

For more details, please refer to attached diagram.

Preface:

Who use Node JS?
Node.js build various applications such as social media apps, video and text chat engines, real-time tracking apps, online games and collaboration tools. CiscoDevNet has sample to guide the developer how to integrate integrate Webex with node.js.

Technology background:
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser.

Severity of impact:

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0: Debugger port 5858 listens on any interface by default. A debug menu or debug mode is a user interface implemented in a computer program that allows the user to view and/or manipulate the program’s internal state for the purpose of debugging.

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers

Severity – High severity

Node.js Official announcement for reference:

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2018-security-releases/