Patch for Cisco Zero Day Bug to Become Available Oct. 22
Image source: Shutterstock Company’s investigation shows attackers actually leveraged two previously unknown bugs, not one, as assumed. There are two important new developments around CVE-2023-20198, the widely exploited zero-day bug in the web UI of Cisco’s IOS EX software. Two 0-Day Bugs, Not One The first is, Cisco’s investigation into the recent widespread attacks targeting […]
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Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Cisco IOS XE Gives Attackers Total Admin Access to Affected Devices
Image source: Shutterstock Cisco recommends that customers immediately disable HTTPS Server feature on all Internet-facing devices running the operating system till a fix or other workaround becomes available. An unknown threat actor is actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the web user interface of Cisco’s IOS XE operating system to drop an implant for arbitrary […]
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APT37 using South Korea stampede themed lure to exploit new IE zero-day flaw
Microsoft patched flaw after Google TAG researchers reported it to the company in October. Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s Jscript engine after researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) informed the company about seeing North Korea’s APT37 group using it in attacks against South Korean targets. The zero-day flaw (CVE-2022-41128) stems […]
Read MoreCISA Adds Patched Apple iOS/iPadOS Zero-Day to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
CVE-2022-42827 is the eighth kernel level flaw so far this year for which Apple has released a patch only after active exploitation was underway [277 words]. What: CISA has added a newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2022-42827) in different versions of iOS and iPadOS, to its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. US federal civilian executive branch agencies […]
Read MoreZscaler releases technical details—and PoC—for now-patched Windows 0-day
Microsoft has rated the previously exploited CVE-2022-37969 as being of high-severity, so now might be a good time to patch (264 words). What: New technical details and proof-of-concept code have become available on a zero-day bug in the Windows Common Log File System Driver (CLFS.sys) that Microsoft addressed in its September 2022 security update (CVE-2022-37969) […]
Read MoreMultiple APTs Exploiting Zimbra Vulnerability CVE-2022-41352
Patch or mitigate now [300 words] What: Organizations using Zimbra Collaboration suite (ZCS) 8.8.15 and 9.0 should immediately update to Zimbra 9.0.0 P27 released on October 10. Those that cannot should implement Zimbra’s recommended workaround which is to install the pax utility and restart Zimbra services. Ubuntu-based Zimbra installations are not impacted because pax is […]
Read MoreMicrosoft looking into reports of a third Exchange Server zero-day?
Security vendor that discovered bug recommends organizations limit IIS app operating privileges on Exchange Server [297 words] What: Microsoft apparently is looking into a report it received from South Korean cybersecurity vendor AhnLab about yet another Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability. To be clear, the vulnerability it is reportedly looking into now is different from the […]
Read MoreHere are the highlights of Microsoft’s October 2022 Security Update
Microsoft released fixes for a total of 84 CVEs across its products [300 words]. One of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched today is a zero-day that is being actively exploited: Windows COM+ Event System Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2022-41033): An attacker could gain system level privileges. Two other recently disclosed zero-days (CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082) […]
Read MoreHere’s what you need to know about the new (actively exploited) Microsoft Exchange Server 0-Days: CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082
Latest update: Microsoft has updated its mitigation for the flaw. Implement it. [265 words] What: Two zero-day vulnerabilities exist in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. One of the flaws CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. The other is CVE-2022-41082, allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) via PowerShell. Both vulnerabilities require an attacker […]
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