More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules

These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn't win, they sometimes resorted to cheating. Researchers gave the models a seemingly impossible task: to win against Stockfish, which is one of the strongest chess engines in the world and a much better player than an...

CVE-2024-22199

This package provides universal methods to use multiple template engines with the Fiber web framework using the Views interface. This vulnerability specifically impacts web applications that render user-supplied data through this template engine, potentially leading to the execution of malicious...

Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

Cisco Talos observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text salting also known as "poisoning" in the second half of 2024. Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely...

This Week in Spring - January 7th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! It's been another super seven days since we last spoke and, as always, there's a lot to cover so let's dive right into it! A long time in coming, but it's finally here! Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring the Spring AI hits just keep on...

SEO Poisoning: How Cybercriminals Are Turning Search Engines into Traps

Stay protected from SEO poisoning, a cyber threat exploiting search engine rankings to spread malware and phishing scams.…...

CVE-2024-47729 drm/xe: Use reserved copy engine for user binds on faulting devices

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Use reserved copy engine for user binds on faulting devices User binds map to engines with can fault, faults depend on user binds completion, thus we can deadlock. Avoid this by using reserved copy engine for user binds o...

CVE-2024-47495

An Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability allows a locally authenticated attacker with shell access to gain full control of the device when Dual Routing Engines REs are in use on Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved devices. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolv...

CVE-2024-47495

CVE-2024-47495 – Junos OS Evolved dual-REs : A local authorization bypass via a user-controlled key can allow a locally authenticated attacker with shell access to take full control on devices running Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved with dual routing engines. Affected are dual-RE deployments on...

Juniper Junos OS Vulnerability (JSA88122)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the JSA88122 advisory. - An Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability allows a locally authenticated attacker with shell access to gain full control of the device when Dual...

PT-2024-7151 · Juniper Networks · Junos Evolved

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 21.2R3-S8-EVO Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions from 21.4-EVO prior to 21.4R3-S8-EVO Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions from 22.2-EVO prior to 22.2R3-S4-EVO Juniper Networks...

Fedora 40 : roundcubemail (2024-2e908e829a)

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-2e908e829a advisory. Version 1.6.8 - Managesieve: Protect special scripts in managesievekolabmaster mode - Fix newmailnotifier notification focus in Chrome 9467 - Fix...

Indirect prompt injection in the real world: how people manipulate neural networks

What is prompt injection? Large language models LLMs – the neural network algorithms that underpin ChatGPT and other popular chatbots – are becoming ever more powerful and inexpensive. For this reason, third-party applications that make use of them are also mushrooming, from systems for document...

MediaWiki suffers from an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2024-31364)

MediaWiki is a suite of free and freely available web-based Wiki engines from the MediaWiki Foundation. It can be used to deploy in-house knowledge management and content management systems. MediaWiki has a security vulnerability that stems from the presence of a stored cross-site scripting XSS...

GHSA-VVHJ-V88F-5GXR ghtml Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Summary It is possible to introduce user-controlled JavaScript code and trigger a Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in some cases. Actions Taken - Updated the documentation to clarify that while ghtml escapes characters with special meaning in HTML, it does not provide comprehensive protecti...

ghtml Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Summary It is possible to introduce user-controlled JavaScript code and trigger a Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in some cases. Actions Taken - Updated the documentation to clarify that while ghtml escapes characters with special meaning in HTML, it does not provide comprehensive protecti...

USN-6788-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and...

When is One Vulnerability Scanner Not Enough?

Like antivirus software, vulnerability scans rely on a database of known weaknesses. That's why websites like VirusTotal exist, to give cyber practitioners a chance to see whether a malware sample is detected by multiple virus scanning engines, but this concept hasn't existed in the vulnerability...

kernel: drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel i915 graphics driver's GuC virtual engine request handling. A local user with access to GPU rendering can create requests on GuC virtual engines and trap references via syncfile or dmabuf, causing fence release operations to acces...

RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-mysql57-mysql (RHSA-2018:3655)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3655 advisory. MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon, mysqld, and many client programs. The...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6732-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...