Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGL

Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chromes Web Graphics Library WebGL. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser -- and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser that both Google and other software developers use as the basis to buil...

Two remote code execution vulnerabilities disclosed in Microsoft Excel

Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet management software that could allow a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine. Microsoft disclosed these issues and patched them as part of Junes monthly security release for the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Authentication bypass, use-after-free vulnerabilities found in a library for the µC/OS open-source operating system

Kelly Leuschner of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in a library for µC/OS, an open-source operating system developed by Micrium. µC/OS is an embedded operating system that supports TCP/IP, USB, CAN bus and Modbus. The two...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly round of security updates and patches today, continuing its trend of fixing zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday. Aprils security update includes one vulnerability thats actively being exploited in the wild. There are also eight critical vulnerabilities and the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in popular Japanese word processing software could lead to arbitrary code execution, other issues

A Cisco Talos researcher discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered four vulnerabilities in Ichitaro, a popular word processing software in Japan produced by JustSystems that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Ichitaro uses the ATOK input method IME and uses the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Buffer overflow vulnerability in ADMesh library

Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered an improper array index validation vulnerability in a functionality of the ADMesh library. ADMesh is a C library used to process 3-D triangular meshes. Talos found an improper array index validation...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Netgear Orbi router vulnerable to arbitrary command execution

Christopher McBee and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered four vulnerabilities in the Netgear Orbi mesh wireless system, including the main hub router and satellite routers that extend the networks range. A mesh system allows users to set...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Node-SQLite3 issue could lead to denial of service in Ghost CMS

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a vulnerability in node-sqlite3 that affects the Ghost content management system and could affect other software utilizing this library. Ghost is a content management system with tools to build a website,...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 83 vulnerabilities across the companys hardware and software line, including two issues that are actively being exploited in the wild, continuing a trend of zero-days appearing in Patch Tuesdays over the past few months. Two of th...

Vulnerability Spotlight: EIP Stack Group OpENer open to two remote code execution vulnerabilities

Jared Rittle of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in EIP Stack Group OpENer, an ethernet/IP stack for I/O adapter devices, that could allow an attacker to cause a targeted server to crash or open the door to remote code execution...

Vulnerability Spotlight: XSS vulnerability in Ghost CMS

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Ghost CMS. Ghost is a content management system with tools to build a website, publish content and send newsletters. Ghost offers paid subscriptions to members a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Integer and buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in QT QML

Emma Reuter and Theo Morales of ASIG and Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco ASIG and Cisco Talos recently discovered code execution vulnerabilities in QT QML. Qt is a popular software suite primarily used to create graphical user interfaces. It also contains...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 98 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 11 are classified as "Critical", 87 are classified as "Important", no vulnerability classified as "Moderate." According to Microsoft all "Critical" vulnerability are either less...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Asus router access, information disclosure, denial of service vulnerabilities discovered

Lilith of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in Asus router software. The Asus RT-AX82U router is one of the newer Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax-enabled routers that also supports mesh networking with other Asus routers. Like other routers, it i...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Authentication bypass and enumeration vulnerabilities in Ghost CMS

Dave McDaniel and other members of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in Ghost CMS, one authentication bypass vulnerability and one enumeration vulnerability. Ghost is a content management system with tools to build a website, publish...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 48 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 6 are classified as "Critical", 41 are classified as "Important", with the remaining vulnerability classified as "Moderate." One of the critical vulnerabilities, which Microsoft...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Memory corruption vulnerability discovered in PowerISO

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in PowerISO. TALOS-2022-1644 CVE-2022-41992 is a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the VHD File Format parsing functionality of PowerISO 8.3. A specially crafte...

Vulnerability Spotlight: NVIDIA driver memory corruption vulnerabilities discovered

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two memory corruption vulnerabilities in shader functionality of an NVIDIA driver. NVIDIA Graphics drivers are software for NVIDIA Graphics GPU installed on the PC. They are used to communicate between th...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Lansweeper directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Lansweeper. Lansweeper is an IT Asset Management solution that gathers hardware and software information of computers and...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Callback Technologies CBFS Filter denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Callback Technologies CBFS Filter. Callback Technologies has a CBFS file storage solution for use in customizing data persistence on devices. To accompany...