Security

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2023
CISA adds Plex Media Server bug, exploited in LastPass attack, to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added remote code execution vulnerability in Plex Media Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Plex Media Server, tracked as CVE-2020-5741 (CVSS score: 7.2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2023
The risk of pasting confidential company data into ChatGPT

Experts warn that employees are providing sensitive corporate data to the popular artificial intelligence chatbot model ChatGPT. Researchers from Cyberhaven Labs analyzed the use of ChatGPT by 1.6 million workers at companies across industries. They reported that 5.6% of them have used it in the workplace and 4.9% have provided company data to the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2023
Cisco fixed CVE-2023-20049 DoS flaw affecting enterprise routers

Cisco fixed a high-severity DoS vulnerability (CVE-2023-20049) in IOS XR software that impacts several enterprise routers. Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity DoS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20049 (CVSS score of 8.6), in IOS XR software used by several enterprise-grade routers. The vulnerability resides in the bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) hardware offload feature […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2023
CISA adds VMware’s Cloud Foundation bug to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added an actively exploited vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Foundation to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Foundation, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSS score: 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The remote code execution vulnerability resides in the XStream open-source library. Unauthenticated attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2023
Akamai mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack that peaked 900Gbps

Akamai has mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever, which peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second. Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The attack traffic peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2023
CloudBees flaws in Jenkins server can lead to code execution

CloudBees vulnerabilities in the Jenkins open-source automation server can be exploited to achieve code execution on targeted systems. Researchers from cloud security firm Aqua discovered a chain of two vulnerabilities in the Jenkins open-source automation server that could lead to code execution on targeted systems. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
A critical flaw affects Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy, patch it now!

Fortinet addressed a critical heap buffer underflow vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Fortinet addressed a critical buffer underwrite (‘buffer underflow’) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-25610 (CVSS v3 9.3), that resides in the administrative interface in FortiOS and FortiProxy. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
Veeam warns to install patches to fix a bug in its Backup & Replication product

Veeam addressed a high-severity vulnerability in the Backup Service that impacts Backup & Replication software. Veeam addressed a high-severity vulnerability in the Backup Service, tracked as CVE-2023-27532 (CVSS v3 score: 7.5), that impacts all versions of Backup & Replication software versions. “Vulnerability CVE-2023-27532 in Veeam Backup & Replication component allows to obtain encrypted credentials stored in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
CISA adds three new bugs to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added actively exploited flaws in Teclib GLPI, Apache Spark, and Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. US CISA added the following actively exploited flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: The CVE-2022-35914 flaw is a PHP code injection vulnerability that resides in the /vendor/htmlawed/htmlawed/htmLawedTest.php in the htmlawed module for GLPI […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
VMware NSX Manager bugs actively exploited in the wild since December

Security researchers warn of hacking attempts in the wild exploiting critical vulnerabilities in VMware NSX Manager. Cyber security firm Wallarm is warning of ongoing attacks exploiting the critical flaws, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSS score of 9.8) and CVE-2022-31678 (CVSS score of 9.1), in VMware NSX Manager. VMware NSX is a network virtualization solution that is […]