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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) security vulnerability in Apache OFBiz could open organizations to data theft, lateral movement by threat actors into various applications and parts of their networks, and more. The bug, tracked as CVE-2024-38856, carries a notably high CVSS score of 9.8, given how impactful exploitation could be. Apache OFBiz is…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Microsoft researchers warned that multiple ransomware gangs are exploiting the recently patched vulnerability CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score of 6.8) in VMware ESXi flaw. “Microsoft researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in ESXi hypervisors being exploited by several ransomware operators to obtain full administrative permissions on domain-joined ESXi hypervisors.” warned Microsoft. The flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability…

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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Cisco has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20419 (CVSS score of 10.0), in Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem) license servers that allows attackers to change any user’s password. The issue is due to an improper implementation in the password-change process. Threat actors can trigger the vulnerability by sending specially crafted HTTP…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Cisco on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability discovered months ago that allowed a China-nexus hacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the compromised devices. The threat group, dubbed Velvet Ant, remotely connected to Cisco’s NX-OS software used in switches and executed malicious code. The networking giant in an advisory attributes the discovery to cybersecurity…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Juniper Networks has released an emergency patch for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that has been assigned the highest possible CVSS score of 10. The vulnerability, tracked under CVE-2024-2973, affects the Juniper Networks Session Smart Router, Session Smart Conductor, and WAN Assurance Router, and could allow a threat actor to take full control of an…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware that affects multiple families of Intel Core desktop and mobile processors. Tracked as CVE-2024-0762 (CVSS score: 7.5), the “UEFIcanhazbufferoverflow” vulnerability has been described as a case of a buffer overflow stemming from the use of an unsafe variable in the…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Google has issued a Chrome 126 security update, addressing six vulnerabilities, including a flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-6100 which was demonstrated during the SSD Secure Disclosure’s TyphoonPWN 2024. TyphoonPWN is a live hacking competition held annually at TyphoonCon, an Offensive Security Conference in Seoul, South Korea. The vulnerability is a high-severity type confusion issue in the…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Among the more dangerous of the flaws for which Microsoft released a patch this week on Patch Tuesday is a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability publicly disclosed back in February in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-50868 exists in a third-party DNSSEC mechanism called Next Secure Hash 3 (NSEC3) for…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Tracked as CVE-2024-4610, the bug is described as a use-after-free issue that could be exploited by local users to make improper GPU memory processing operations. Successful exploitation of the flaw allows a non-privileged attacker to access previously freed memory, Arm explains in an advisory. “Arm is aware of reports of this vulnerability being exploited in…