DOS

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2026
Cisco Warns of Seven ClamAV Flaws, Two With Public PoCs

Cisco warns that seven ClamAV flaws affect Secure Endpoint Connector products, with two having public PoCs that could enable remote DoS attacks. Cisco warned that seven ClamAV vulnerabilities affect its Secure Endpoint Connector on Windows, macOS and Linux. ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine widely used to scan files and emails for malware. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2026
OpenSSL Fixes HollowByte Memory Exhaustion Bug

Okta disclosed HollowByte, an 11-byte OpenSSL flaw that lets remote attackers exhaust server memory and trigger denial-of-service attacks. Okta’s Red Team disclosed a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSL they named HollowByte, and the attack payload is exactly 11 bytes. A remote, unauthenticated attacker sends that payload and the server allocates up to 131 KB of memory […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2025
Cisco IOS XR flaw allows attackers to crash BGP process on routers

Cisco addressed a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers. Cisco has addressed a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20115, that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers by sending a single BGP […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2025
OpenSSH bugs allows Man-in-the-Middle and DoS Attacks

Two OpenSSH vulnerabilities could allow machine-in-the-middle (MitM) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks under certain conditions. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered two vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The first, tracked as CVE-2025-26465 (CVSS score: 6.8) can be exploited by an attacker to conduct an active machine-in-the-middle attack on the OpenSSH client when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2024
Critical RCE vulnerability found in OpenPLC

Cisco’s Talos reported critical and high-severity flaws in OpenPLC that could lead to DoS condition and remote code execution. Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence unit has disclosed details of five newly patched vulnerabilities in OpenPLC, an open-source programmable logic controller. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or execute remote code. OpenPLC […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2024
Cisco addressed a high-severity flaw in NX-OS software

Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities impacting NX-OS software, including a high-severity flaw in the DHCPv6 relay agent. Cisco released security updates for NX-OS software that address multiple vulnerabilities. The most severe of the vulnerabilities fixed by the IT giant is a high-severity issue tracked as CVE-2024-20446. The vulnerability impacts the DHCPv6 relay agent of NX-OS, an […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2024
Microsoft discloses 2 flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus

Microsoft discovered two flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit. Microsoft responsibly disclosed two vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit to perform remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS). The RCE vulnerability in PanelView Plus involves exploiting two custom classes to upload and load […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2024
Palo Alto Networks fixed multiple DoS bugs in its firewalls

Palo Alto Networks fixed several vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS operating system, including 3 issues that can trigger a DoS condition on its firewalls. Palo Alto Networks released security updates to address several high-severity vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS operating system. The company fixed the following DoS vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-3385 – The company reported that a packet processing […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood technique can be exploited in DoS attacks

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood: Researchers warn of a new HTTP/2 vulnerability that can be exploited to conduct powerful denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. HTTP messages can contain named fields in both header and trailer sections. CERT/CC experts explained that both header and trailer fields are serialized as field blocks in HTTP/2 to transmit them in multiple fragments to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2024
Cisco fixed high-severity elevation of privilege and DoS bugs

Cisco this week addressed high-severity elevation of privilege and denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in IOS RX software. Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in IOS RX software, including three high-severity issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability CVE-2024-20320 is a Cisco IOS XR Software SSH privilege escalation vulnerability. The […]