CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

cisa Known Exploited Vulnerabilities RESURGE

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 66 new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 15 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.ⓘ

According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.

Experts recommend also private organizations review the Catalog and address the vulnerabilities in their infrastructure.

The new vulnerabilities added to the catalog have to be addressed by federal agencies by April 15, 2022.

The oldest flaws in the set of 66 recently added issues are dated back to 2005.

One of the 66 flaws added to the catalog is the recently discovered Windows CVE-2022-21999 vulnerability, which is a Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege bug. Microsoft addressed this bug with the release of the February 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.

Another issue added to the catalog, tracked as CVE-2022-26318, is an arbitrary code execution in WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Appliances.

CISA also added the CVE-2022-26143 vulnerability affecting Mitel MiCollab and MiVoice Business Express that can be exploited by a threat actor to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and services, cause performance degradations or a denial of service condition on the affected system.

The CISA Catalog has reached a total of 570 entries with the latest added issues.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.