Cybersecurity of High-Altitude Platform Stations: Threat Taxonomy, Attacks and Defenses with Standards Mapping - DDoS Attack Use Case

High-Altitude Platform Stations HAPS are emerging stratospheric nodes within non-terrestrial networks. We provide a structured overview of HAPS subsystems and principal communication links, map cybersecurity and privacy exposure across communication, control, and power subsystems, and propose a...

Adaptive Dual-Layer Web Application Firewall (ADL-WAF) Leveraging Machine Learning for Enhanced Anomaly and Threat Detection

Web Application Firewalls are crucial for protecting web applications against a wide range of cyber threats. Traditional Web Application Firewalls often struggle to effectively distinguish between malicious and legitimate traffic, leading to limited efficacy in threat detection. To overcome these...

Iranian Hackers Launch 'SpearSpecter' Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be...

Prototype Pollution Third-Party Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server - CVE-2022-46175

This High severity vulnerability known as CVE-2022-46175 was introduced in 7.19.0, 8.5.0, 8.6.0, 8.8.0, 8.7.1, 8.9.0, 9.1.0, 9.0.1, 9.2.0, 9.3.1 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 7.1 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H...

CVE-2024-7017

Inappropriate implementation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.182 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security severity: High...

EUVD-2024-55075

Inappropriate implementation in Dawn in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 130.0.6723.92 allowed a remote attacker to perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security severity: High...

Prototype Pollution Third-Party Dependency in Bitbucket Data Center and Server - CVE-2020-8203

This High severity vulnerability known as CVE-2020-8203 was introduced in 4.4.0, 8.19.0, 8.19.1, 8.19.2, 8.19.3, 8.19.4, 8.19.5, 8.19.6, 8.19.7, 8.19.8, 8.19.9, 8.19.10, 8.19.11, 8.19.12, 8.19.13, 8.19.14, 8.19.15 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 7.4 an...

Open Redirect Third-Party Dependency in Bitbucket Data Center and Server - CVE-2023-26159

This High severity vulnerability known as CVE-2023-26159 was introduced in 8.19.0, 8.19.1, 8.19.2, 8.19.3, 8.19.4, 8.19.5, 8.19.6, 8.19.7, 8.19.8, 8.19.9, 8.19.10, 8.19.11, 8.19.12, 8.19.13, 8.19.14, 8.19.15 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 7.3 and a CV...

WordPress LifterLMS plugin <= Various versions - Authenticated (Student+) Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Authenticated Student+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability discovered by shark3y in WordPress Plugin LifterLMS versions 9.1.0...

CVE-2025-40163

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/deadline: Stop dlserver before CPU goes offline IBM CI tool reported kernel warning1 when running a CPU removal operation through drmgr2. i.e "drmgr -c cpu -r -q 1" WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219...

DoS (Denial of Service) Third-Party Dependency in Confluence Data Center and Server - CVE-2024-37890

This High severity vulnerability known as CVE-2024-37890 was introduced in 3.3.3, 9.4.0, 9.2.3 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This vulnerability with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center and...

CVE-2025-30185

Active debug code for some Intel UEFI reference platforms within Ring 0: Kernel may allow a denial of service and escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data alteration. This result may potentially occur via local...

CVE-2025-25059

Uncontrolled search path for some IntelR One Boot Flash Update IntelR OFU software before version 14.1.31 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation ...

CVE-2025-27725

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition for some ACAT before version 3.13 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially...

CVE-2025-33000

Improper input validation for some Intel QuickAssist Technology before version 2.6.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result ma...

CVE-2025-22391

Improper access control for some SigTest before version 6.1.10 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially...

CVE-2025-35972

Uncontrolled search path for the Intel MPI Library before version 2021.16 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may...

CVE-2025-35968

Protection mechanism failure in the UEFI firmware for the Slim Bootloader within firmware may allow an escalation of privilege. Startup code and smm adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via...

CVE-2025-31931

Uncontrolled search path for the Instrumentation and Tracing Technology API ITT API software before version 3.25.4 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable...

SUSE CVE-2025-13042

Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 142.0.7444.166 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Chromium security severity: High...