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CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to KEV Catalog, Urges Fixes by Feb 25

CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to KEV Catalog, Urges Fixes by Feb 25

Feb 05, 2025 Vulnerability / Software Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-45195 (CVSS score: 7.5/9.8) - A forced browsing vulnerability in Apache OFBiz that allows a remote attacker to obtain unauthorized access and execute arbitrary code on the server (Fixed in September 2024 ) CVE-2024-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5) - An information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could expose the ObjRef URI and lead to remote code execution (Fixed in March 2024 ) CVE-2018-9276 (CVSS score: 7.2) - An operating system command injection vulnerability in Paessler PRTG Network Monitor that allows an attacker with administrative privileges to execute commands via the PRTG System Administrator web console (Fixed in April 2018 ) CVE-2018-19410 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A local file inclusion vulne...
Malicious Go Package Exploits Module Mirror Caching for Persistent Remote Access

Malicious Go Package Exploits Module Mirror Caching for Persistent Remote Access

Feb 04, 2025 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a software supply chain attack targeting the Go ecosystem that involves a malicious package capable of granting the adversary remote access to infected systems. The package, named github.com/boltdb-go/bolt , is a typosquat of the legitimate BoltDB database module ( github.com/boltdb/bolt ), per Socket. The malicious version (1.3.1) was published to GitHub in November 2021, following which it was cached indefinitely by the Go Module Mirror service. "Once installed, the backdoored package grants the threat actor remote access to the infected system, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands," security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in an analysis. Socket said the development marks one of the earliest instances of a malicious actor abusing the Go Module Mirror's indefinite caching of modules to trick users into downloading the package. Subsequently, the attacker is said to have modified the Git tags in the source r...
What Is Attack Surface Management?

What Is Attack Surface Management?

Feb 03, 2025Attack Surface Management
Attack surfaces are growing faster than security teams can keep up – to stay ahead, you need to know what's exposed and where attackers are most likely to strike. With cloud adoption dramatically increasing the ease of exposing new systems and services to the internet, prioritizing threats and managing your attack surface from an attacker's perspective has never been more important. In this guide, we look at why attack surfaces are growing and how to monitor and manage them properly with  tools like Intruder . Let's dive in. What is your attack surface? First, it's important to understand what we mean when we talk about an attack surface. An attack surface is the sum of your digital assets that are 'reachable' by an attacker – whether they are secure or vulnerable, known or unknown, in active use or not. You can also have both internal and external attack surfaces - imagine for example a malicious email attachment landing in a colleague's inbox, vs a new FTP server being...
PyPI Introduces Archival Status to Alert Users About Unmaintained Python Packages

PyPI Introduces Archival Status to Alert Users About Unmaintained Python Packages

Feb 03, 2025 Open Source / Software Security
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry have announced a new feature that allows package developers to archive a project as part of efforts to improve supply chain security . "Maintainers can now archive a project to let users know that the project is not expected to receive any more updates," Facundo Tuesca, senior engineer at Trail of Bits, said . In doing so, the idea is to clearly signal to developers that the Python libraries are no longer being actively maintained and that no future security fixes or product updates should be expected. That said, projects labeled as archived will continue to remain available on PyPI and users can continue to install it without any issues. In a separate blog post detailing the feature, Tuesca said the maintainers are considering additional maintainer-controlled statuses to better communicate a project's status to downstream consumers. PyPI also recommends that package developers release a final version pr...
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Critical Cacti Security Flaw (CVE-2025-22604) Enables Remote Code Execution

Critical Cacti Security Flaw (CVE-2025-22604) Enables Remote Code Execution

Jan 29, 2025 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework that could allow an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-22604, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Due to a flaw in the multi-line SNMP result parser, authenticated users can inject malformed OIDs in the response," the project maintainers said in an advisory released this week. "When processed by ss_net_snmp_disk_io() or ss_net_snmp_disk_bytes(), a part of each OID will be used as a key in an array that is used as part of a system command, causing a command execution vulnerability." Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could permit an authenticated user with device management permissions to execute arbitrary code in the server, and steal, edit, or delete sensitive data. CVE-2025-22604 affects all versions of the software prior to and includ...
Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer

Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer

Jan 29, 2025 Vulnerability / Software Security
Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated blind SQL injection. "A malicious user with network access may be able to use specially crafted SQL queries to gain database access," the company said in an advisory issued Tuesday. Security researchers Daniel Kukuczka and Mateusz Darda have been acknowledged for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. It affects the following version of the software - VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.1.1 (Fixed in 30.1.2-2p2) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.1.2 (Fixed in 30.1.2-2p2) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.2.1 (Fixed in 30.2.1-2p5) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.2.2 (Fixed in 30.2.2-2p2) Broadcom further noted that versions 22.x and 21.x are not susceptible to CVE-2025-22217, and that users running version 30.1.1 must...
Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution

Jan 04, 2025 Vulnerability / Software Security
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei , a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tracked as CVE-2024-43405 , it carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. It impacts all versions of Nuclei later than 3.0.0. "The vulnerability stems from a discrepancy between how the signature verification process and the YAML parser handle newline characters, combined with the way multiple signatures are processed," according to a description of the vulnerability. "This allows an attacker to inject malicious content into a template while maintaining a valid signature for the benign part of the template." Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner designed to probe modern applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and networks to identify security flaws. The scanning engine makes use of templates , wh...
CISA Adds Acclaim USAHERDS Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

CISA Adds Acclaim USAHERDS Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

Dec 24, 2024 Vulnerability / Software Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-44207 (CVSS score: 8.1), a case of hard-coded, static credentials in Acclaim USAHERDS that could allow an attacker to ultimately execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. Specifically, it concerns the use of static ValidationKey and DecryptionKey values in version 7.4.0.1 and prior that could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution on the server that runs the application. That said, an attacker would have to leverage some other means to obtain the keys in the first place. "These keys are used to provide security for the application ViewState," Google-owned Mandiant said in advisory for the flaw back in December 2021. "A threat actor with knowledge ...
Not Your Old ActiveState: Introducing our End-to-End OS Platform

Not Your Old ActiveState: Introducing our End-to-End OS Platform

Dec 18, 2024 Software Security / DevSecOps
Having been at ActiveState for nearly eight years, I've seen many iterations of our product. However, one thing has stayed true over the years: Our commitment to the open source community and companies using open source in their code. ActiveState has been helping enterprises manage open source for over a decade. In the early days, open source was in its infancy. We focused mainly on the developer case, helping to get open source on platforms like Windows. Over time, our focus shifted from helping companies run open source to supporting enterprises managing open source when the community wasn't producing it in the way they needed it. We began managing builds at scale, and supporting enterprises in understanding what open source they're using and if it's compliant and safe. Managing open source at scale in a large organization can be complex. To help companies overcome this and bring structure to their open source DevSecOps practice, we're unveiling our end-to-end platform to help m...
Critical SailPoint IdentityIQ Vulnerability Exposes Files to Unauthorized Access

Critical SailPoint IdentityIQ Vulnerability Exposes Files to Unauthorized Access

Dec 04, 2024 Vulnerability / Software Security
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SailPoint's IdentityIQ identity and access management (IAM) software that allows unauthorized access to content stored within the application directory. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10905 , has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. It affects IdentityIQ versions 8.2. 8.3, 8.4, and other previous versions. IdentityIQ "allows HTTP access to static content in the IdentityIQ application directory that should be protected," according to a description of the flaw on NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The vulnerability has been characterized as a case of improper handling of file names that identify virtual resources ( CWE-66 ), which could be abused to read otherwise inaccessible files. In an alert of its own, SailPoint said it has "released e-fixes for each impacted and supported version of IdentityIQ." The exact list of versions impacted by CVE-2024-10905 is mentioned below...
XML-RPC npm Library Turns Malicious, Steals Data, Deploys Crypto Miner

XML-RPC npm Library Turns Malicious, Steals Data, Deploys Crypto Miner

Nov 28, 2024 Software Security / Data Breach
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a software supply chain attack that has remained active for over a year on the npm package registry by starting off as an innocuous library and later adding malicious code to steal sensitive data and mine cryptocurrency on infected systems. The package, named @0xengine/xmlrpc , was originally published on October 2, 2023 as a JavaScript-based XML-RPC server and client for Node.js. It has been downloaded 1,790 times to date and remains available for download from the repository. Checkmarx , which discovered the package, said the malicious code was strategically introduced in version 1.3.4 a day later, harboring functionality to harvest valuable information such as SSH keys, bash history, system metadata, and environment variables every 12 hours, and exfiltrate it via services like Dropbox and file.io. "The attack achieved distribution through multiple vectors: direct npm installation and as a hidden dependency in a legitimate-looking ...
Critical Flaw in ProjectSend Under Active Exploitation Against Public-Facing Servers

Critical Flaw in ProjectSend Under Active Exploitation Against Public-Facing Servers

Nov 27, 2024 Vulnerability / Software Security
A critical security flaw impacting the ProjectSend open-source file-sharing application has likely come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, originally patched over a year-and-a-half ago as part of a commit pushed in May 2023, was not officially made available until August 2024 with the release of version r1720 . As of November 26, 2024, it has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-11680 (CVSS score: 9.8).  Synacktiv, which reported the flaw to the project maintainers in January 2023, described it as an improper authorization check that allows an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible servers. "An improper authorization check was identified within ProjectSend version r1605 that allows an attacker to perform sensitive actions such as enabling user registration and auto validation, or adding new entries in the whitelist of allowed extensions for uploaded files," it said in a report published in Ju...
Google's AI-Powered OSS-Fuzz Tool Finds 26 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects

Google's AI-Powered OSS-Fuzz Tool Finds 26 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects

Nov 21, 2024 Artificial Intelligence / Software Security
Google has revealed that its AI-powered fuzzing tool, OSS-Fuzz, has been used to help identify 26 vulnerabilities in various open-source code repositories, including a medium-severity flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. "These particular vulnerabilities represent a milestone for automated vulnerability finding: each was found with AI, using AI-generated and enhanced fuzz targets," Google's open-source security team said in a blog post shared with The Hacker News. The OpenSSL vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-9143 (CVSS score: 4.3), an out-of-bounds memory write bug that can result in an application crash or remote code execution. The issue has been addressed in OpenSSL versions 3.3.3, 3.2.4, 3.1.8, 3.0.16, 1.1.1zb, and 1.0.2zl. Google, which added the ability to leverage large language models (LLMs) to improve fuzzing coverage in OSS-Fuzz in August 2023, said the vulnerability has likely been present in the codebase for two decades and that it "wo...
Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitation

Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitation

Nov 20, 2024 Software Security / Vulnerability
Oracle is warning that a high-severity security flaw impacting the Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21287 (CVSS score: 7.5), could be exploited sans authentication to leak sensitive information. "This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., it may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password," it said in an advisory. "If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may result in file disclosure." CrowdStrike security researchers Joel Snape and Lutz Wolf have been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. There is currently no information available on who is exploiting the vulnerability, the targets of the malicious activity, and how widespread these attacks are. "If successfully exploited, an unauthenticated perpetrator could download, from the targeted system, files accessible under the privileges used ...
Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System

Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System

Nov 05, 2024 Mobile Security / Vulnerability
Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, has been described as a privilege escalation flaw in the Android Framework component that could result in unauthorized access to "Android/data," "Android/obb," and "Android/sandbox" directories, and their respective sub-directories, according to a code commit message . There are currently no details about how the vulnerability is being weaponized in real-world attacks, but Google acknowledged in its monthly bulletin that there are indications it "may be under limited, targeted exploitation." The tech giant has also flagged CVE-2024-43047, a now-patched security bug in Qualcomm chipsets, as having been actively exploited. A use-after-free vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Service, a successful exploitation of the security flaw could lead to memory corrupti...
Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning

Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning

Nov 04, 2024 Vulnerability / Cyber Threat
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including denial-of-service, model poisoning, and model theft. "Collectively, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to carry out a wide-range of malicious actions with a single HTTP request, including denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, model poisoning, model theft, and more," Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky said in a report published last week. Ollama is an open-source application that allows users to deploy and operate large language models (LLMs) locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS devices. Its project repository on GitHub has been forked 7,600 times to date. A brief description of the six vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2024-39719 (CVSS score: 7.5) - A vulnerability that an attacker can exploit using /api/create an endpoint to determine the existence of a file in the se...
Google’s AI Tool Big Sleep Finds Zero-Day Vulnerability in SQLite Database Engine

Google's AI Tool Big Sleep Finds Zero-Day Vulnerability in SQLite Database Engine

Nov 04, 2024 Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability
Google said it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the SQLite open-source database engine using its large language model (LLM) assisted framework called Big Sleep (formerly Project Naptime). The tech giant described the development as the "first real-world vulnerability" uncovered using the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. "We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software," the Big Sleep team said in a blog post shared with The Hacker News. The vulnerability in question is a stack buffer underflow in SQLite, which occurs when a piece of software references a memory location prior to the beginning of the memory buffer, thereby resulting in a crash or arbitrary code execution. "This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is decremented to a position before the buffer, when pointer arithmetic results in a position before the beginning of t...
Researchers Uncover Python Package Targeting Crypto Wallets with Malicious Code

Researchers Uncover Python Package Targeting Crypto Wallets with Malicious Code

Oct 30, 2024 Cybercrim / Cryptocurrency
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious Python package that masquerades as a cryptocurrency trading tool but harbors functionality designed to steal sensitive data and drain assets from victims' crypto wallets. The package, named "CryptoAITools," is said to have been distributed via both Python Package Index (PyPI) and bogus GitHub repositories. It was downloaded over 1,300 times before being taken down from PyPI. "The malware activated automatically upon installation, targeting both Windows and macOS operating systems," Checkmarx said in a new report shared with The Hacker News. "A deceptive graphical user interface (GUI) was used to distract vic4ms while the malware performed its malicious ac4vi4es in the background." The package is designed to unleash its malicious behavior immediately after installation through code injected into its "__init__.py" file that first determines if the target system is Windows or macOS ...
Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Oct 24, 2024 Vulnerability / Network Security
Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability is also known as FortiJump and is rooted in the FortiGate to FortiManager ( FGFM ) protocol. "A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability [CWE-306] in FortiManager fgfmd daemon may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially crafted requests," the company said in a Wednesday advisory. The shortcoming impacts FortiManager versions 7.x, 6.x, FortiManager Cloud 7.x, and 6.x. It also affects old FortiAnalyzer models 1000E, 1000F, 2000E, 3000E, 3000F, 3000G, 3500E, 3500F, 3500G, 3700F, 3700G, and 3900E that have at least one interface with fgfm service enabled and the below configuration on - config system global set fmg-status enable end Fortinet has also provided three workarounds for the flaw depending on the...
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

Oct 23, 2024 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence
A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38094 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a deserialization vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could result in remote code execution. "An authenticated attacker with Site Owner permissions can use the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code and execute this code in the context of SharePoint Server," Microsoft said in an alert for the flaw. Patches for the security defect were released by Redmond as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for July 2024. The exploitation risk is compounded by the fact that proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the flaw are available in the public domain. "The PoC script [...] automates authentication to a target SharePoint site using NTLM, creates a spe...
Researchers Reveal 'Deceptive Delight' Method to Jailbreak AI Models

Researchers Reveal 'Deceptive Delight' Method to Jailbreak AI Models

Oct 23, 2024 Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by sneaking in an undesirable instruction between benign ones. The approach has been codenamed Deceptive Delight by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which described it as both simple and effective, achieving an average attack success rate (ASR) of 64.6% within three interaction turns. "Deceptive Delight is a multi-turn technique that engages large language models (LLM) in an interactive conversation, gradually bypassing their safety guardrails and eliciting them to generate unsafe or harmful content," Unit 42's Jay Chen and Royce Lu said. It's also a little different from multi-turn jailbreak (aka many-shot jailbreak) methods like Crescendo , wherein unsafe or restricted topics are sandwiched between innocuous instructions, as opposed to gradually leading the model to produce harmful outpu...
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