vulnerability

News

Issued by: Dark Reading

A zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability in Ivanti software was exploited to carry out an attack on the Norwegian Ministries Security and Service Organization. The attack affected communications networks at 12 Norwegian government ministries, according to the original statement, preventing employees in those departments from accessing mobile services and email. The government noted that the Prime…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Adobe warns customers of a critical ColdFusion pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29300 (CVSS score 9.8), that is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. “Adobe is aware that CVE-2023-29300 has been exploited in the wild in very limited attacks targeting Adobe ColdFusion,” reads a statement sent by the company to its customers….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

A critical security vulnerability in Cisco’s SD-WAN vManage software could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain read and limited write permissions, and access data. The bug carries a score of 9.1 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability-severity scale, and it exists in the vManage API, which is used to monitor and configure Cisco…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Configuration management – especially vulnerability patching – is a significant challenge for many healthcare entities, including some Veterans Affairs medical facilities. A recent watchdog agency security inspection found configuration issues to be a top weakness at a VA healthcare system in Arizona. The Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General in a report issued Tuesday said…

Software Security

Issued by: SecurityWeek

In an update to a critical-level advisory originally released in April this year, VMware said it has confirmed that exploit code for CVE-2023-20864 has been published, underscoring the urgency for enterprise network admins to apply available patches. The vulnerability, which carries a CVSS severity score of 9.8 out of 10, allows an unauthenticated, malicious actor…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

An easy-to-use exploit was publicly released this week for a patched vulnerability that affects the widely used Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco Secure Client applications for Windows. Attackers could leverage the exploit to elevate their privileges on a victim’s system and take full control of it. Cisco Secure Client for Windows, previously known…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

The vulnerability of subdomain takeover in Microsoft Azure continues to pose a threat, with researchers at Keytos discovering approximately 15,000 vulnerable subdomains each month using cryptographic certificates. This relatively common exploit allows cybercriminals to impersonate organizations, launch attacks, and display spam content through legitimate sites. Despite continuous attempts to contact and notify over 1,000 organizations…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The most important of these issues is CVE-2023-3214, a critical use-after-free flaw in Autofill payments. The issue was reported by Rong Jian of VRI, Google notes in its advisory. Use-after-free vulnerabilities are a type of memory corruption bugs that occur when a pointer is not cleared after memory allocation has been freed. Such flaws may…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

The Microsoft Windows vulnerability CVE-2023-29336 (CVSS score 7.8) is an elevation of privilege issue that resides in the Win32k component. Win32k.sys is a system driver file in the Windows operating system. The driver is responsible for providing the interface between user-mode applications and the Windows graphical subsystem. The vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks. The…