Patch now! September Microsoft Patch Tuesday includes two actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft's September 2023 Patch Tuesday is another important one. Not because it's a busy one, but because we have some special cases. Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 59 bugs, two of which are known to be actively exploited. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has...

binutils: Fix of 3 CVEs

CVE-2022-47673: Fix multiple out of bound reads which may cause a DoS - CVE-2022-47695: Fix NULL pointer segmentation fault which may cause a DoS - CVE-2022-47696: Fix read of unitialized field which may cause a DoS...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in commons-codec-1.10.jar affect IBM Application Performance Management products

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in commons-codec-1.10.jar used by IBM Application Performance Management. IBM Applicatoon Performance Management has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details IBM X-Force ID: 177835 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Codec could allow a remote attack...

CLSA-2023-1693904331 Fix of 11 CVEs

Jammy update: v5.15.86 upstream stable release LP: 2005113 // CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3606 - libbpf: Fix null-pointer dereference in findprogbysecinsn Jammy update: v5.15.87 upstream stable release LP: 2007441 // CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-23454 - net:...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.6.1 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Summary IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.6.1 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-32681 DESCRIPTION: python-requests could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leaking of Proxy-Authorization...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product using IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition is affected by multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-22045, CVE-2023-22049)

Summary This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their July 2023 Critical Patch Update. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products are vulnerable to this attack, it has been addressed in this bulletin: Jazz Foundation, IBM Engineering Test...

Exploitation of Juniper Networks SRX Series and EX Series Devices

On August 17, 2023, Juniper Networks published an out-of-band advisory on four different CVEs affecting Junos OS on SRX and EX Series devices: CVE-2023-36846 Affects the SRX Series A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an...

microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for microcodectl. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel processors...

RLSA-2023:3582 Important: .NET 6.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

.NET is a managed-software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and several new APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation. New versions of .NET that address a security vulnerability are now available. The updated versions are .NET SDK 6.0.118 and .NET Runtime 6.0.18. The...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect

Summary IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect is vulnerable and that can result in runtime errors, denial of service attacks, remote code execution, or remote access authentication bypass. The vulnerabilities have been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2018-17142 DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is...

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper. Hello everyone! This month I decided NOT to make an episode completely dedicated to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Instead, this episode will be an...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM Java included with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Summary Vulnerabilities in IBM® Java™ Technology Edition that is shipped as part of multiple IBM Tivoli Monitoring ITM components. CVEs: CVE-2023-21930, CVE-2023-21967, CVE-2023-21954, CVE-2023-21939, CVE-2023-21968, CVE-2023-21937, CVE-2023-21938, CVE-2023-2597 and CVE-2022-40609 Vulnerability...

Qualys Tackles 2022’s Top Routinely Exploited Cyber Vulnerabilities

A unified front against malicious cyber actors is climactic in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, a collaboration between leading cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, is a critical guide to...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 affect IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® DB2 used by IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights 1.3.6 and earlier. IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights has addressed the applicable CVEs CVE-2023-30447, CVE-2023-30446, CVE-2023-30443, CVE-2023-30448, CVE-2023-30445,...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs14 (SUSE-SU-2023:3306-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3306-1 advisory. - CVE-2023-32002: Fixed permissions policies bypass via Module.load bsc1214150. - CVE-2023-32006: Fixed permissions policies...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday Addresses Active Zero-Day Exploits

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In the August Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft addressed a total of 73 CVEs, encompassing six critical and 67 important vulnerabilities. Within this range of vulnerabilities, the security update...

Previewing Talos at BlackHat 2023

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. The time has come once again for all of us well, not me specifically but lots of other Talos people to descend on Las Vegas for Hacker Summer Camp. Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the ne...

K000135479: Overview of F5 vulnerabilities (August 2023)

Security Advisory Description On August 2, 2023, F5 announced the following security issues. This document is intended to serve as an overview of these vulnerabilities to help determine the impact to your F5 devices. You can find the details of each issue in the associated articles. Important :...

Industrial Control Systems Vulnerabilities Soar: Over One-Third Unpatched in 2023

About 34% of security vulnerabilities impacting industrial control systems ICSs that were reported in the first half of 2023 have no patch or remediation, registering a significant increase from 13% the previous year. According to data compiled by SynSaber, a total of 670 ICS product flaws were...

The many vulnerabilities Talos discovered in SOHO and industrial wireless routers post-VPNFilter

Since the discovery of the widespread VPNFilter malware in 2018, Cisco Talos researchers have been researching vulnerabilities in small and home office SOHO and industrial routers. During that research, Talos has worked with vendors to report and mitigate these vulnerabilities, totaling 141...