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ServiceNow Patches Critical AI Platform Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated User Impersonation

ServiceNow Patches Critical AI Platform Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated User Impersonation

Jan 13, 2026 Vulnerability / SaaS Security
ServiceNow has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its ServiceNow artificial intelligence (AI) Platform that could enable an unauthenticated user to impersonate another user and perform arbitrary actions as that user. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-12420 , carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0. It has been codenamed BodySnatcher by AppOmni. "This issue [...] could enable an unauthenticated user to impersonate another user and perform the operations that the impersonated user is entitled to perform," the company said in an advisory released Monday. The shortcoming was addressed by ServiceNow on October 30, 2025, by deploying a security update to the majority of hosted instances, with the company also sharing the patches with ServiceNow partners and self-hosted customers. The following versions include a fix for CVE-2025-12420 - Now Assist AI Agents (sn_aia) - 5.1.18 or later and 5.2.19 or later Virtual Agent API (sn_va_as_ser...
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Gogs Vulnerability Enabling Code Execution

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Gogs Vulnerability Enabling Code Execution

Jan 13, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of a high-severity security flaw impacting Gogs by adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7), relates to a case of path traversal in the repository file editor that could result in code execution. "Gogs Path Traversal Vulnerability: Gogs contains a path traversal vulnerability affecting improper Symbolic link handling in the PutContents API that could allow for code execution," CISA said in an advisory. Details of the shortcoming came to light last month when Wiz said it discovered it being exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerability essentially bypasses protections put in place for CVE-2024-55947 to achieve code execution by creating a git repository, committing a symbolic link pointing to a sensitive target, and using the PutContents API to write data to the symlink. This, in t...
China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Jan 09, 2026 Virtualization / Vulnerability
Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before it could progress to the final stage, said it may have resulted in a ransomware attack. Most notably, the attack is believed to have exploited three VMware vulnerabilities that were disclosed as zero-days by Broadcom in March 2025: CVE-2025-22224 (CVSS score: 9.3), CVE-2025-22225 (CVSS score: 8.2), and CVE-2025-22226 (CVSS score: 7.1). Successful exploitation of the issue could permit a malicious actor with admin privileges to leak memory from the Virtual Machine Executable (VMX) process or execute code as the VMX process. That same month, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) ca...
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Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions

Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions

Jan 09, 2026 Vulnerability / Endpoint Security
Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-69258 , carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. The vulnerability has been described as a case of remote code execution affecting LoadLibraryEX. "A LoadLibraryEX vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to load an attacker-controlled DLL into a key executable, leading to execution of attacker-supplied code under the context of SYSTEM on affected installations," the cybersecurity company said. Also patched by Trend Micro are two other flaws - CVE-2025-69259 (CVSS score: 7.5) - A message unchecked NULL return value vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create a denial-of-service condition on affected ins...
CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

Jan 09, 2026 Government / Vulnerability Management
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it's retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024. The list of the directives now considered closed is as follows - ED 19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering ED 20-02: Mitigate Windows Vulnerabilities from January 2020 Patch Tuesday ED 20-03: Mitigate Windows DNS Server Vulnerability from July 2020 Patch Tuesday   ED 20-04: Mitigate Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability from August 2020 Patch Tuesday ED 21-01: Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities ED 21-03: Mitigate Pulse Connect Secure Product Vulnerabilities   ED 21-04: Mitigate Windows Print Spooler Service Vulnerability   ED 22-03: Mitigate VMware Vulnerabilities ED 24-02: Mitigating the Significant Risk from Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email System   Stating that these directives were iss...
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