Tag: vulnerabilities

March 9, 2023

Tracked as CVE-2023-27898 and CVE-2023-27905 and impacting both Jenkins Server and Update Center, the two security defects are described as cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs that can be exploited by providing a malicious plugin. Rated ‘high severity’, CVE-2023-27898 exists because Jenkins […]

March 8, 2023

A total of 24 of the addressed security defects were reported by external researchers. These include eight high-severity flaws, 11 medium-severity bugs, and five low-severity issues. Three of the high-severity vulnerabilities reported by external researchers are use-after-free bugs impacting Swiftshader, […]

March 6, 2023

The vulnerabilities were discovered by Ryan Pickren from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Cyber-Physical Security Lab. The issues were identified by the researcher as part of a PhD project on the security of industrial control systems (ICS). Pickren previously earned […]

March 2, 2023

The cybercrime economy centered around access to compromised systems, services, and networks has grown dramatically in the past year — with a sixfold increase in the number of credentials stolen via malware and offered for sale. With cyberattackers using information-stealing […]

March 1, 2023

Researchers from ESET discovered a new stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit, named BlackLotus, that is able to bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11. Secure Boot is a security feature of the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.3.1 […]

February 23, 2023

Rezilion uncovered the presence of hundreds of Docker container images containing vulnerabilities that are not detected by most standard vulnerability scanners and SCA tools. The research revealed numerous high-severity/critical vulnerabilities hidden in hundreds of popular container images, downloaded billions of […]

February 22, 2023

Researchers identified 56 new vulnerabilities associated with ransomware threats among a total of 344 threats identified in 2022 – marking a 19% increase year-over-year. Threat actors are actively searching the internet and deep and dark web for 180 vulnerabilities known […]

February 20, 2023

Fortinet has dropped fixes for 40 vulnerabilities in a variety of its products, including two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-39952, CVE-2021-42756) affecting its FortiNAC and FortiWeb solutions. Since cyberattackers love to exploit vulnerabilities in Fortinet enterprise solutions and a PoC exploit for […]

February 16, 2023

Security researchers have disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting Schneider Electric Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could allow for authentication bypass and remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-45788 (CVSS score: 7.5) and CVE-2022-45789 (CVSS score: 8.1), are part […]

February 16, 2023

Oligo Security launched out of stealth on Wednesday with its runtime application security platform for detecting vulnerabilities in open source components. Oligo generates a dynamic bill of materials (BOM), identifies vulnerabilities in packages, and sets fix priorities for vulnerabilities based […]

February 15, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address 75 flaws spanning its product portfolio, three of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. The updates are in addition to 22 flaws the Windows maker patched in its Chromium-based […]

February 15, 2023

The most severe vulnerabilities are CVE-2023-22939 and CVE-2023-22935 (CVSS score of 8.1), two issues that could lead to the bypass of search processing language (SPL) safeguards for risky commands. Both flaws affect instances with Splunk Web enabled and require a […]

February 9, 2023

A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. “Threat actors […]

February 7, 2023

Threat actors are leveraging known flaws in Sunlogin software to deploy the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework for carrying out post-exploitation activities. The findings come from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC), which found that security vulnerabilities in Sunlogin, a remote […]

February 3, 2023

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on February 2 added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The first of the two vulnerabilities is CVE-2022-21587 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical […]

February 3, 2023

F5 has warned of a high-severity flaw impacting BIG-IP appliances that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution. The issue is rooted in the iControl Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interface and affects the following versions of BIG-IP […]

February 1, 2023

Two more supply chain security flaws have been disclosed in AMI MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software, nearly two months after three security vulnerabilities were brought to light in the same product. Firmware security firm Eclypsium said the two shortcomings […]

January 26, 2023

Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that between August and October 2022 the number of attacks that attempted to exploit a Realtek Jungle SDK RCE (CVE-2021-35394) (CVSS score 9.8) accounted for more than 40% of the total number of attacks. “Realtek […]

January 23, 2023

An EMA survey of 129 software development professionals uncovered that for those using code scanning tools, only 10% of organizations prevented a higher percentage of vulnerabilities than organizations not using code scanning tools, while continuous training greatly improved code security […]

January 20, 2023

The Drupal core issue exists because the Media Library module does not perform proper checks on entity access in some cases, which could allow users who can edit content to view metadata about media items that they should not have […]