Critical Patch Out for Critical Pulse Secure VPN 0-Day Under Attack

Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has released a security patch to remediate a critical security vulnerability that was found being actively exploited in the wild by at least two different threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2021-22893 CVSS score 10, the flaw concerns "multiple us...

PT-2021-6023

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows 10 versions prior to the fixed version Windows 11 versions prior to the fixed version Windows Server 2019 versions prior to the fixed version Windows Server 2022 versions prior to the fixed version Description The issue is related to a...

Actively exploited vulnerability found in Pulse Connect Secure

A vulnerability has been found in Pulse Connect Secure. The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote malicious person able to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code execute arbitrary code on the Pulse Connect Secure system. The vulnerability has a CVSS3.1 score of 10. Pulse Secure...

CVE-2021-1782

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, watchOS 7.3, tvOS 14.4, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a...

Critical F5 BIG-IP Flaw Now Under Active Attack

Attackers are exploiting a recently-patched, critical vulnerability in F5 devices that have not yet been updated. The unauthenticated remote command execution flaw CVE-2021-22986 exists in the F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ enterprise networking infrastructure, and could allow attackers to take full contro...

CISA Orders Fed Agencies to Patch Exchange Servers

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement about active cyber-espionage campaigns that are exploiting four serious security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. government is mandating patching for the issues. The news comes as security firms report escalating numbers of relat...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws

Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Google Chrome

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Google Chrome. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person to launch attacks that lead to the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS Circumvention of security measure Remote code execution User rights Access to sensitive data As usual, Google...

Microsoft Issues Patches for In-the-Wild 0-day and 55 Others Windows Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 56 flaws, including a critical vulnerability that's known to be actively exploited in the wild. In all, 11 are listed as Critical, 43 are listed as Important, and two are listed as Moderate in severity — six of which are previously disclosed vulnerabilities...

Hackers Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bug in SonicWall SMA 100 Devices

SonicWall on Monday warned of active exploitation attempts against a zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access SMA 100 series devices. The flaw, which affects both physical and virtual SMA 100 10.x devices SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, SMA 500v, came to light after the NCC Group on...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Apple iOS and iPadOS

Apple has fixed several vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS. A malicious person, possibly remotely, can exploit the vulnerabilities exploit them to execute arbitrary code or to obtain elevated privileges on the vulnerable system. Apple has made few substantive details publicly available, but...

PT-2021-1546

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Defender versions prior to the fixed version Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the mpengine.dll library of Microsoft Defender, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially...

VMware Workspace One Access / VMware Identity Manager Command Injection Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0027)

The VMware Workspace One Access formerly VMware Identity Manager application running on the remote host is affected by a unspecified command injection vulnerability. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version. C Tenable...

Two New Chrome 0-Days Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser

Google has patched two more zero-day flaws in the Chrome web browser for desktop, making it the fourth and fifth actively exploited vulnerabilities addressed by the search giant in recent weeks. The company released 86.0.4240.198 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling out over...

WARNING: Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Bug Exploited in the Wild

Google has disclosed details of a new zero-day privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system that's being actively exploited in the wild. The elevation of privileges EoP vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-17087, concerns a buffer overflow present since at least Windows 7 in the Window...

Cisco Warns of Active Exploitation of Flaw in Carrier-Grade Routers

Cisco Systems says hackers are actively exploiting previously unpatched vulnerabilities in its carrier-grade routers that could allow adversaries to crash or severely disrupt devices. The vulnerabilities exist in the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol DVMRP feature of Cisco IOS XR Softwar...

Microsoft Reveals New Innocent Ways Windows Users Can Get Hacked

Microsoft earlier today released its August 2020 batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems and other products. This month's Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 120 newly discovered software vulnerabilities, of which 17 are critical, and th...

Microsoft Addresses RCE and Spoofing Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities—CVE-2020-1380 and CVE-2020-1464—that are being actively exploited. CVE-2020-1380 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 11, and CVE-2020-1464 is a spoofing vulnerability that affects multiple...

Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Cisco Adaptive_Security_Appliance_Software

CVE-2020-3452 Little, stupid python validator? for CVE-2020...

Citrix Releases Patches for Critical ADC Vulnerability Under Active Attack

Citrix has finally started rolling out security patches for a critical vulnerability in ADC and Gateway software that attackers started exploiting in the wild earlier this month after the company announced the existence of the issue without releasing any permanent fix. I wish I could say, "better...