Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q2 2024

Q2 2024 was eventful in terms of new interesting vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques for applications and operating systems. Attacks through vulnerable drivers have become prevalent as a general means of privilege escalation in the operating system. Such attacks are notable in that the...

CISA Warns of Critical Jenkins Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a critical security flaw impacting Jenkins to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, following its exploitation in ransomware attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23897 CVSS score: 9.8, is a path travers...

Oracle Linux 8 : grafana (ELSA-2024-5291)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-5291 advisory. 9.2.10-17 - Allow for mssql datasource in selinux policy - Resolves RHEL-43435 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

KLA71479 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Office. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, spoof user interface, gain privileges. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. A remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint can be exploit...

Courier Management System 2020-1.0 SQL Injection

Titles: courier-management-system-2020-1.0 Multiple-SQLi Author: nu11secur1ty Date: 08/12/2024 Vendor: https://github.com/oretnom23 Software: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14611/courier-management-system-using-phpmysqli-source-code.htmlcomment-105424 Reference:...

Fedora 39 : firefox / nss (2024-4fcf85b0ff)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4fcf85b0ff advisory. Update NSS to 3.103.0 Update to Firefox 129.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note...

Fedora 40 : python3.13 (2024-bec5d0df1f)

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-bec5d0df1f advisory. - Security fix for CVE-2024-6923. - Fix SystemError in PyEvalGetLocals Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedor...

OpenVPN 2.5.x < 2.5.10, 2.6.x < 2.6.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Windows)

According to its self-reported version number, the version of OpenVPN installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an arbitrary plug-i...

eduAuthorities 1.0 SQL Injection

Titles: eduAuthorities-1.0 Multiple-SQLi Author: nu11secur1ty Date: 07/29/2024 Vendor: https://www.mayurik.com/ Software: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/16137/online-student-management-system-php-free-download.html Reference: https://portswigger.net/web-security/sql-injection Description: The...

Nearly 7% of Internet Traffic Is Malicious

Cloudflare reports on the state of applications security. It claims that 6.8% of Internet traffic is malicious. And that CVEs are exploited as quickly as 22 minutes after proof-of-concepts are published. News articles...

Fedora 40 : exim (2024-55603127f3)

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-55603127f3 advisory. This is new version of exim fixing CVE-2024-39929. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note tha...

CVE-2023-32471

Dell Edge Gateway BIOS, versions 3200 and 5200, contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with high privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read contents of stack memory and use this information for further exploits...

Photon OS 5.0: Libssh PHSA-2024-5.0-0187

An update of the libssh package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-0187. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Nginx PHSA-2023-5.0-0123

An update of the nginx package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-5.0-0123. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2023-5.0-0107

An update of the linux package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-5.0-0107. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 4.0: Calico PHSA-2024-4.0-0605

An update of the calico package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-4.0-0605. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 4.0: Git PHSA-2023-4.0-0426

An update of the git package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-4.0-0426. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid20426...

Photon OS 4.0: Openssh PHSA-2023-4.0-0440

An update of the openssh package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-4.0-0440. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2023-5.0-0101

An update of the linux package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-5.0-0101. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 4.0: Runc PHSA-2023-4.0-0425

An update of the runc package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-4.0-0425. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...