CVE-2022-23703: Undefined Security Weakness

A security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Nimble Storage Hybrid Flash Arrays, HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays and HPE Nimble Storage Secondary Flash Arrays during update. This would potentially allow an attacker to intercept and modify network communication for software updates...

Microsoft's New Autopatch Feature to Help Businesses Keep Their Systems Up-to-Date

Microsoft last week announced that it intends to make generally available a feature called Autopatch as part of Windows Enterprise E3 in July 2022. "This service will keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints up-to-date automatically, at no additional cost," said Lior Bela, senior...

Cisco Web Security Appliance Filter Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Web-Based Reputation Score WBRS engine of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliance WSA could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass established web request policies and access blocked content on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to...

Cisco IP Phone 6800, 7800, and 8800 Series with Multiplatform Firmware Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IP Phone 6800, 7800, and 8800 Series with Multiplatform Firmware could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack against a user of the web-based interface of an affected system. This...

Cisco Identity Services Engine Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain sensitive information from an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper enforcement of administrative privilege levels for high-value...

5 ways to spring clean your security

It is now officailly spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and with spring and the longer days comes the inescapable urge to shake off the lethargy of Winter and embrace the need to go through your stuff, throw a bunch of it out, and give the rest of it a shiny new lustre. And in our increasingly...

GitLab Releases Patch for Critical Vulnerability That Could Let Attackers Hijack Accounts

DevOps platform GitLab has released software updates to address a critical security vulnerability that, if potentially exploited, could permit an adversary to seize control of accounts. Tracked as CVE-2022-1162, the issue has a CVSS score of 9.1 and is said to have been discovered internally by t...

U.S. Charges 4 Russian Govt. Employees Over Hacking Critical Infrastructure Worldwide

The U.S. government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. "The Federal Security Service conducted a multi-stage campaign in...

VMware Issues Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Carbon Black App Control

VMware on Wednesday released software updates to plug two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Carbon Black App Control platform that could be abused by a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code on affected installations in Windows systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-22951 and CVE-2022-2295...

CVE-2022-22585

An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, macOS Monterey 12.2, macOS Big Sur 11.6.3. An application may be able to access a user's files...

Vulnerability fixed in libxml2

A vulnerability has been fixed in libxml2. The vulnerability allows a remote malicious party the ability to cause a denial-of-service cause. The developers of libxml2 have released an update to fix the vulnerability: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit...

Russia under Attack from New RURansom Wiper

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A series of Wiper Malware attacks have been launched in the continuing cyber war between Russia and Ukraine. Researchers have discovered the RURansom wiper malware, which adds to the current collection of harmful malware. The...

Vulnerabilities fixed in BIND

The Internet Systems Consortium ISC has fixed vulnerabilities in BIND. An unauthenticated remote malicious person can exploit the exploit the vulnerabilities to perform a cache-poisoning attack or cause a denial-of-service. One of the fixed vulnerabilities has been given the attribute CVE-2022-06...

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Bidirectional Forwarding Detection DoS (cisco-sa-nxos-bfd-dos-wGQXrzxn)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the rate limiter for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection BFD traffic of Cisco NX-OS Software for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series...

CVE-2021-41848

An issue was discovered in Luna Simo PPR1.180610.011/202001031830. It mishandles software updates such that local third-party apps can provide a spoofed software update file that contains an arbitrary shell script and arbitrary ARM binary, where both will be executed as the root user with an...

CVE-2021-41848

The CVE-2021-41848 issue affects Luna Simo PPR1.180610.011/202001031830. An attacker with local write access to external storage can supply a spoofed update file containing a shell script and an ARM binary. If processed by /system/bin/osi_bin, this payload can run with the osi SELinux domain as r...

Microsoft Security Update Validation Report March 2022

Microsoft’s March 2022 security updates have passed Citrix testing the updates are listed below. The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English only environments and issues may still be found upon implementation. Follow best practices for testing and installing software...

Hackers Abuse Mitel Devices to Amplify DDoS Attacks by 4 Billion Times

Threat actors have been observed abusing a high-impact reflection/amplification method to stage sustained distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks for up to 14 hours with a record-breaking amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296 to 1. The attack vector – dubbed TP240PhoneHome CVE-2022-26143 – has...

2 New Mozilla Firefox 0-Day Bugs Under Active Attack — Patch Your Browser ASAP!

Mozilla has pushed out-of-band software updates to its Firefox web browser to contain two high-impact security vulnerabilities, both of which it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486, the zero-day flaws have been described as use-after-free...

Cisco StarOS Command Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco StarOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the CLI. A...