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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The Microsoft-owned platform received the vulnerability report on December 26, 2023, and took immediate action to address the issue and revoke potentially exposed credentials, which led to disruptions between December 27 and 29. The security defect, which allowed access to credentials within a production container, had no impact beyond the security researcher who identified and…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

On October 10, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog with five known software flaws. At the top of the list: A use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader PDF-viewing applications that could allow code execution with the privileges of any user that clicked on a malicious file….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

Attackers could start abusing GitHub Codespaces, a new service that allows developers to create and test applications inside development containers running on GitHub’s servers. Developers can make their applications accessible via public GitHub URLs for preview by others, a functionality that can be abused to distribute malware payloads in a stealthy way. “If the application…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2007-4559, initially described as a directory traversal vulnerability in Python’s ‘tarfile’ module that could allow an attacker to remotely overwrite arbitrary files by convincing users to process specially crafted tar archives. The flaw was never properly patched and instead users were warned not to open archive files from untrusted sources….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The flaw, classified as high severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560, impacts polkit, an authorization service that is present by default in many Linux distributions. The security hole was discovered by Kevin Backhouse of the GitHub Security Lab. On Thursday, the researcher published a blog post detailing his findings, as well as a video showing the…