Sep 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Threat Intelligence Ivanti has revealed that a newly patched security flaw in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows remote code execution under certain circumstances. "An OS command injection … [Read more...] about Ivanti Warns of Active Exploitation of Newly Patched Cloud Appliance Vulnerability
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Critical WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw Patched for 500,000+ WordPress Sites
Mar 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / WordPress Patches have been released for a critical security flaw impacting the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress, which is installed on over 500,000 websites. The flaw, if left unresolved, could enable a bad actor to gain unauthorized admin access to impacted stores, the company said in an advisory on March 23, 2023. It … [Read more...] about Critical WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw Patched for 500,000+ WordPress Sites
Researchers Reveal Detail for Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability Patched Last Month
Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) that could be exploited by an attacker to gain elevated permissions on compromised machines. Tracked as CVE-2022-37969 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue was addressed by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for September 2022, while also noting that it was being actively … [Read more...] about Researchers Reveal Detail for Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability Patched Last Month
MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can’t Be Patched
A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple's M1 processor chipsets, potentially arming a malicious actor with the capability to gain arbitrary code execution on macOS systems. It leverages "speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce … [Read more...] about MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can’t Be Patched
New UAF Vulnerability Affecting Microsoft Office to be Patched Today
Four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online, could be potentially abused by bad actors to deliver attack code via Word and Excel documents. "Rooted from legacy code, the vulnerabilities could have granted an attacker the ability to execute code on targets via malicious Office documents, such as Word, Excel and … [Read more...] about New UAF Vulnerability Affecting Microsoft Office to be Patched Today
PoC Released for Outlook Flaw that Microsoft Patched 6 Month After Discovery
As we reported two days ago, Microsoft this week released an updated version of its Outlook app for Android that patches a severe remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-1105) that impacted over 100 million users.However, at that time, very few details of the flaw were available in the advisory, which just revealed that the earlier versions of the email app contained a … [Read more...] about PoC Released for Outlook Flaw that Microsoft Patched 6 Month After Discovery