2024 State of Ransomware in Education: 92% spike in K-12 attacks

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, “known attacks” are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of...

CVE-2023-6237

Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take a long time. Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVPPKEYpubliccheck to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that is being checked has been obtained from an untrusted source this may...

RUSTSEC-2023-0075 Unaligned write of u64 on 32-bit and 16-bit platforms

Affected versions allocate memory using the alignment of usize and write data to it of type u64, without using core::ptr::writeunaligned. In platforms with sub-64bit alignment for usize including wasm32 and x86 these writes are insufficiently aligned some of the time. If using an ordinary optimiz...

CVE-2022-48616

A Huawei data communication product has a command injection vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to gain higher privileges...

Command injection

A Huawei data communication product has a command injection vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to gain higher privileges...

CVE-2022-48616

A Huawei data communication product has a command injection vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to gain higher privileges...

PT-2023-12332 · Unknown · Apm Java Agent

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: APM Java agent affected versions not specified Description: A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious plugin to an application running the APM Java agent. By usin...

PT-2023-30382 · WordPress · Scott Paterson Easy Paypal Shopping Cart

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Scott Paterson Easy PayPal Shopping Cart plugin versions = 1.1.10 Description: The issue is related to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability that affects users with contributor or higher permissions. This allows for malicious script...

Trellix GetSusp Security Vulnerability

Trellix GetSusp is a heuristic malware detection program from FireEye Trellix USA. A security vulnerability exists in Trellix GetSusp versions prior to 5.0.0.27, which stems from a mismanagement of privileges vulnerability. A local, low-privilege attacker could exploit the vulnerability to access...

open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass

A flaw was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows a malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias...

kernel: filemap: Handle sibling entries in filemap_get_read_batch()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filemap: Handle sibling entries in filemapgetreadbatch If a read races with an invalidation followed by another read, it is possible for a folio to be replaced with a higher-order folio. If that happens, we'll see a sibling entry...

PT-2023-12445 · Unknown · Opay Mobile

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Opay Mobile application version 1.5.1.26 Description: An Information Disclosure issue exists in the Opay Mobile application, potentially affecting versions higher than 1.5.1.26, as indicated by the presence of sensitive information in the...

PT-2025-41113

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw in the skb copy ubufs function related to TCP handling and large TCP segments BIG TCP. A crash can occur when using TCP zerocopy with hugepages and skb...

CVE-2023-38994

The 'checkuniventionjoinstatus' prometheus monitoring script and other scripts in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuratio...

Default configuration

The 'checkuniventionjoinstatus' prometheus monitoring script and other scripts in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuratio...

CVE-2023-38994

The 'checkuniventionjoinstatus' prometheus monitoring script and other scripts in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuratio...

CVE-2023-5335

The Buzzsprout Podcasting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buzzsprout' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers...

Add Custom Body Class <= 1.4.1 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description The plugin does not properly escape the addcustombodyclass parameter before outputting it to the page, allowing users with the role of contributor of higher to inject arbitrary web scripts potentially targeting higher privileged users...

CVE-2023-5533 AI ChatBot <= 4.8.9 and 4.9.2 - Missing Authorization on AJAX actions

The AI ChatBot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized use of AJAX actions due to missing capability checks on the corresponding functions in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 as well as 4.9.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform some of those actions tha...

open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass

An improper signature verification flaw was found in open-vm-tools that may lead to a bypass of SAML token signature. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been...