Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Researchers have unearthed 11 vulnerabilities affecting Nagios XI, a widely used enterprise IT infrastructure/network monitoring solution, some of which can be chained to allow remote code execution with root privileges on the underlying system. Attackers are likely to try to exploit vulnerabilities in network management systems like Nagios because their oversee critical network components and…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Over 70% of the severe bugs identified last year in Chrome were memory safety issues, namely “mistakes with pointers in the C or C++ languages,” and Google decided to tackle the problem before it becomes even more serious. Of the potential solutions, the Internet search giant decided to focus on two, namely introducing runtime checks…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Tracked as CVE-2021-40539 and rated critical severity (CVSS score of 9.8), the vulnerability has been exploited since August 2021 to execute code remotely and take over vulnerable systems. Affecting the representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) URLs of the self-service password management and single sign-on solution, the issue is an authentication bypass bug…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

News has surfaced of a rather dangerous practice in Microsoft Azure, whereby when a user creates a Linux virtual machine and enables certain Azure services, the Azure platform automatically installs the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) agent on the machine. The user won’t know it. Although a stealth installation might sound terrible on its face, this…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The most important of the newly released security notes patches a missing authorization check in SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java. Tracked as CVE-2021-37535, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10. Two other critical vulnerabilities (CVSS score of 9.9) were addressed with Hot News security notes for NetWeaver. These include CVE-2021-38163, an unrestricted file…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Siemens Siemens has released 21 new advisories and updated 25 previously published advisories. The new advisories cover 36 vulnerabilities, including five that have been assigned a critical severity rating. One of the critical flaws, with a CVSS score of 10, impacts the Desigo CC building management platform and the Cerberus danger management station (DMS). The…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Users have been informed that the latest update includes three security fixes, including for a data exposure flaw related to the REST API, and a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in the block editor. WordPress 5.8.1 also updates Lodash, a JavaScript library that provides utility functions for common programming tasks, to address security issues. These vulnerabilities…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

While a user can easily turn on WhatsApp on any new device, given that accounts are phone number-based, conversation history isn’t available unless a backup was created on the previous device. Users can set time intervals for the creation of local backups and can also choose to store those in the cloud, for fast access….