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Not every security vulnerability is high risk on its own - but in the hands of an advanced attacker, even small weaknesses can escalate into major breaches. These five real vulnerabilities, uncovered by Intruder's bug-hunting team, reveal how attackers turn overlooked flaws into serious security incidents. 1. Stealing AWS Credentials with a Redirect Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) is a common vulnerability that can have a significant impact, especially in cloud-hosted applications. If a web application fetches resources from user-supplied URLs, care should be taken to ensure attackers can't manipulate requests to access unintended resources. While assessing a home-moving app running in AWS, our team tested common SSRF bypass techniques. The attack chain was as follows: the app sent a webhook request to the attacker's web server, which responded with a 302 redirect to AWS's metadata service. The app followed the redirect and logged the response, which exposed sensitive metadat...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the below vulnerabilities - CVE-2024-58136 (CVSS score: 9.0) - An improper protection of alternate path flaw in the Yii PHP framework used by Craft CMS that could be exploited to access restricted functionality or resources (A regression of CVE-2024-4990 ) CVE-2025-32432 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Craft CMS (Patched in versions 3.9.15, 4.14.15, and 5.6.17) According to the cybersecurity company, CVE-2025-32432 resides in a built-in image transformation feature that allows site administrators to keep images to a certain format. "CVE-2025-32432 relies on the fact that an unauthenticated user could send a POST request to the endpoint responsible for the image transf...

Threat actors are likely exploiting a new vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver to upload JSP web shells with the goal of facilitating unauthorized file uploads and code execution.  "The exploitation is likely tied to either a previously disclosed vulnerability like CVE-2017-9844 or an unreported remote file inclusion (RFI) issue," ReliaQuest said in a report published this week. The cybersecurity company said the possibility of a zero-day stems from the fact that several of the impacted systems were already running the latest patches. The flaw is assessed to be rooted in the "/developmentserver/metadatauploader" endpoint in the NetWeaver environment, enabling unknown threat actors to upload malicious JSP-based web shells in the "servlet_jsp/irj/root/" path for persistent remote access and deliver additional payloads. Put differently, the lightweight JSP web shell is configured to upload unauthorized files, enable entrenched control over the infected host...

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Commvault Command Center that could allow arbitrary code execution on affected installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-34028 , carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the Command Center installation, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code without authentication," Commvault said in an advisory published on April 17, 2025. "This vulnerability could lead to a complete compromise of the Command Center environment." It impacts the 11.38 Innovation Release, from versions 11.38.0 through 11.38.19, and has been resolved in the following versions - 11.38.20 11.38.25 watchTowr Labs researcher Sonny Macdonald, who has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw on April 7, 2025, said in a report shared with The Hacker News that it could be exploited to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution. Specif...

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Erlang/Open Telecom Platform (OTP) SSH implementation that could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code sans any authentication under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32433 , has been given the maximum CVSS score of 10.0. "The vulnerability allows an attacker with network access to an Erlang/OTP SSH server to execute arbitrary code without prior authentication," Ruhr University Bochum researchers Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Marcel Maehren, and Jörg Schwenk said . The issue stems from improper handling of SSH protocol messages that essentially permit an attacker to send connection protocol messages prior to authentication. Successful exploitation of the shortcomings could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the SSH daemon . Further exacerbating the risk, if the daemon process is running as root, it enables the attacker to have full control of the device, in ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30406 (CVSS score: 9.0), concerns a case of a hard-coded cryptographic key that could be abused to achieve remote code execution. It has been addressed in version 16.4.10315.56368 released on April 3, 2025. "Gladinet CentreStack contains a use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the way that the application manages keys used for ViewState integrity verification," CISA said. "Successful exploitation allows an attacker to forge ViewState payloads for server-side deserialization, allowing for remote code execution." Specifically, the shortcoming is rooted in the use of a hard-code "machineKey" in the IIS web.config file, which enables threat actors with knowl...

Microsoft has released security fixes to address a massive set of 125 flaws affecting its software products, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 125 vulnerabilities, 11 are rated Critical, 112 are rated Important, and two are rated Low in severity. Forty-nine of these vulnerabilities are classified as privilege escalation, 34 as remote code execution, 16 as information disclosure, and 14 as denial-of-service (DoS) bugs. The updates are aside from the 22 flaws the company patched in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the release of last month's Patch Tuesday update . The vulnerability that has been flagged as under active attack is an elevation of privilege (EoP) flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver ( CVE-2025-29824 , CVSS score: 7.8) that stems from a use-after-free scenario, allowing an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. CVE-2025-29824 is the sixth EoP vulnerability to be di...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in the Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager (SSM) Agent that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to achieve privilege escalation and code execution. The vulnerability could permit an attacker to create directories in unintended locations on the filesystem, execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges, and likely escalate privileges or perform malicious activities by writing files to sensitive areas of the system, Cymulate said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Amazon SSM Agent is a component of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables administrators to remotely manage, configure, and execute commands on EC2 instances and on-premises servers.  The software processes commands and tasks defined in SSM Documents , which can include one or more plugins, each of which is responsible for carrying out specific tasks, such as running shell scripts or automating deployment or configura...

Ivanti has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security vulnerability impacting its Connect Secure product that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22457 (CVSS score: 9.0), concerns a case of a stack-based buffer overflow that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. "A stack-based buffer overflow in Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.6, Ivanti Policy Secure before version 22.7R1.4, and Ivanti ZTA Gateways before version 22.8R2.2 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution," Ivanti said in an alert released Thursday. The flaw impacts the following products and versions - Ivanti Connect Secure (versions 22.7R2.5 and prior) - Fixed in version 22.7R2.6 (Patch released on February 11, 2025) Pulse Connect Secure (versions 9.1R18.9 and prior) - Fixed in version 22.7R2.6 (Contact Ivanti to migrate as the device has reached end-of-support as of December ...

A maximum severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Apache Parquet's Java Library that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source columnar data file format that's designed for efficient data processing and retrieval, providing support for complex data, high-performance compression, and encoding schemes. It was first launched in 2013. The vulnerability in question is tracked as CVE-2025-30065 . It carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Schema parsing in the parquet-avro module of Apache Parquet 1.15.0 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code," the project maintainers said in an advisory. According to Endor Labs, successful exploitation of the flaw requires tricking a vulnerable system into reading a specially crafted Parquet file to obtain code execution. "This vulnerability can impact data pipelines and analytics systems...

Threat actors are using the "mu-plugins" directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites. mu-plugins, short for must-use plugins , refers to plugins in a special directory ("wp-content/mu-plugins") that are automatically executed by WordPress without the need to enable them explicitly via the admin dashboard. This also makes the directory an ideal location for staging malware. "This approach represents a concerning trend, as the mu-plugins (Must-Use plugins) are not listed in the standard WordPress plugin interface, making them less noticeable and easier for users to ignore during routine security checks," Sucuri researcher Puja Srivastava said in an analysis. In the incidents analyzed by the website security company, three different kinds of rogue PHP code have been discovered in the directory - "wp-content/mu-plugins/redirect.php," ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed 46 new security flaws in products from three solar power system vendors, Sungrow, Growatt, and SMA, that could be exploited by a bad actor to seize control of devices or execute code remotely, posing severe risks to electrical grids.  The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed SUN:DOWN by Forescout Vedere Labs. "The new vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on devices or the vendor's cloud, take over accounts, gain a foothold in the vendor's infrastructure, or take control of inverter owners' devices," the company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Some of the notable flaws identified are listed below - Attackers can upload .aspx files that will be executed by the web server of SMA (sunnyportal[.]com), resulting in remote code execution Unauthenticated attackers can perform username enumeration via the exposed "server.growatt.com/userCenter.do" endpoint Unauthen...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two six-year-old security flaws impacting Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform (XP) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2019-9874 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A deserialization vulnerability in the Sitecore.Security.AntiCSRF module that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a serialized .NET object in the HTTP POST parameter __CSRFTOKEN CVE-2019-9875 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A deserialization vulnerability in the Sitecore.Security.AntiCSRF module that allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a serialized .NET object in the HTTP POST parameter __CSRFTOKEN There are currently no details on how the flaws are being weaponized in the wild and by whom, although SiteCore, in an update shared on March 30, 2020, said it became "aware of active exploit...

A set of five critical security shortcomings have been disclosed in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution, putting over 6,500 clusters at immediate risk by exposing the component to the public internet. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514, CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, and CVE-2025-1974 ), assigned a CVSS score of 9.8, have been collectively codenamed IngressNightmare by cloud security firm Wiz. It's worth noting that the shortcomings do not impact NGINX Ingress Controller , which is another ingress controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus. "Exploitation of these vulnerabilities leads to unauthorized access to all secrets stored across all namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster by attackers, which can result in cluster takeover," the company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. IngressNightmare, at its core, affects the admission controller component of the Ingress N...