Number: AL20-023
Date: 22 September 2020
AUDIENCE
This Alert is intended for IT professionals and managers of notified organizations.
PURPOSE
An Alert is used to raise awareness of a recently identified cyber threat that may impact cyber information assets, and to provide additional detection and mitigation advice to recipients. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ("Cyber Centre") is also available to provide additional assistance regarding the content of this Alert to recipients as requested.
ASSESSMENT
On 18 September 2020 the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an Alert highlighting the efforts of malicious cyber actors, including sophisticated state-based actors, to target critical vulnerabilities in several MobileIron products. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could lead to remote code execution, authentication bypass and the reading of arbitrary files.
The Cyber Centre would like to underline the importance of general security best practices, particularly that of maintaining software applications to the latest patch level.
Should organizations identify activity similar to that described in this Alert, they are encouraged to contact the Cyber Centre by email (contact@cyber.gc.ca) or by telephone (1-833-CYBER-88 or 1-833-292-3788).
REFERENCES
ACSC Alert:
https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/alerts/active-exploitation-vulnerable-mobileiron-products
MobileIron Security Updates:
https://www.mobileiron.com/en/blog/mobileiron-security-updates-available
NOTE TO READERS
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) operates as part of the Communications Security Establishment. We are Canada's national authority on cyber security and we lead the government's response to cyber security events. As Canada's national computer security incident response team, the Cyber Centre works in close collaboration with government departments, critical infrastructure , Canadian businesses and international partners to prepare for, respond to, mitigate, and recover from cyber events. We do this by providing authoritative advice and support, and coordinating information sharing and incident response. The Cyber Centre is outward-facing, welcoming partnerships that help build a stronger, more resilient cyber space in Canada.