Security News > 2020 > May > Hackers Exploit Critical Flaw in Ghost Platform with Cryptojacking Attack
Hackers targeted the publishing platform Ghost over the weekend, launching a cryptojacking attack against its servers that led to widespread outages.
The attack stemmed from the exploit of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack, used in Ghost's server management infrastructure.
Ghost is a free, open-source blogging platform with an install base of over 2 million, including big-name customers like Mozilla and DuckDuckGo.
Upon further investigation, Ghost said that the hack stemmed from attackers exploiting two flaws, CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, which allow full remote code execution as root on servers in data centers and cloud environments.
Both Ghost Pro sites and Ghost.org billing services were affected - though Ghost said that credit card data was not affected.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-30 | CVE-2020-11651 | An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. | 9.8 |
| 2020-04-30 | CVE-2020-11652 | Path Traversal vulnerability in multiple products An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. | 6.5 |