Vulnerabilities

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-29357 Microsoft SharePoint Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. CVE-2023-29357 Detail: Description: Microsoft SharePoint …

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has identified six security vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited. These vulnerabilities have been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2023-27524 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Superset. It has a CVSS score of 8.9 and could allow remote code …

Fortinet released a security update for FortiOS and FortiProxy software to fix a vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow a cyber threat actor to take control of a system. CISA recommends that users and administrators review security bulletin FG-IR-23-315 for FortiOS & FortiProxy and install updates as needed. Fortiguard PSIRT posted …

Google is focusing on improving web privacy by disabling third-party cookies on the Chrome browser. According to Anthony Chavez, VP for Privacy Sandbox, Google will test Tracking Protection, a new feature that limits cross-site tracking by restricting website access to third-party cookies by default. “We’ll roll this out to 1% …

Security researchers found that Apache RocketMQ services are being targeted by malicious activities. The vulnerabilities, known as CVE-2023-33246 and CVE-2023-37582, remain a serious threat even after the vendor released patches in May 2023. Vulnerability Overview: The CVE-2023-33246 affected different parts of RocketMQ, such as NameServer, Broker, and Controller. Rongtong Jin, …

CISA released three ICS advisories on January 4, 2024. These advisories give important information about security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits concerning ICS. ICSA-24-004-01 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation: Vulnarability overview Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager and Studio 5000 Logix Designer uses the affected Wibu-Systems’ products which internally use a version of …

F5 releases security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities including K000132893: GRUB2 vulnerability CVE-2022-28733. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious packet, triggering an integer underflow in grub code. Consequently, the memory allocation for handling the packet data may be smaller than the size needed. This issue causes an out-of-bands …

Google’s cybersecurity firm Mandiant get back its x (twitter) account after being taken over by someone sharing links to a cryptocurrency platform. On Wednesday afternoon around 3:30 pm EST, the scammar took the control over mandiant’s x account, renamed it as phantom and tweeted out links to a company called …

Around 11 million SSH servers are at risk from the Terrapin attack, which can compromise the security of certain SSH connections. This constitutes roughly 52% of all scanned samples in the IPv4 and IPv6 space monitored by Shadoserver. The Terrapin attack, created by researchers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, …

CISA added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog for January 2024 due to evidence of ongoing exploitation. They are the Google Chromium WebRTC Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2023-7024) and the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-7101). In December 2023, Google released an update to fix a vulnerability …