Actively Exploited
CISA says critical Fortinet RCE flaw now exploited in attacks
Today, CISA revealed that attackers actively exploit a critical FortiOS remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the wild. The flaw (CVE-2024-23113) is caused by the fgfmd daemon accepting an externally controlled format string as an argument, which can let unauthenticated threat actors execute commands or arbitrary code on unpatched devices in low-complexity attacks that don’t […]
Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks
Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, and discovered by ESET researcher Damien Schaeffer, is a use-after-free in Animation timelines. This type of flaw occurs when memory that has been freed is still used […]
Ivanti warns of three more CSA zero-days exploited in attacks
American IT software company Ivanti has released security updates to fix three new Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) zero-days tagged as actively exploited in attacks. As Ivanti revealed on Tuesday, attackers are chaining the three security flaws with another CSA zero-day patched in September. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can let remote attackers run SQL statements via […]
Qualcomm patches high-severity zero-day exploited in attacks
Qualcomm has released security patches for a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service that impacts dozens of chipsets. The security flaw (CVE-2024-43047) was reported by Google Project Zero’s Seth Jenkins and Amnesty International Security Lab’s Conghui Wang, and it is caused by a use-after-free weakness that can lead to memory corruption when […]
Over 4,000 Adobe Commerce, Magento shops hacked in CosmicSting attacks
Adobe Commerce and Magento online stores are being targeted in “CosmicSting” attacks at an alarming rate, with threat actors hacking approximately 5% of all stores. The CosmicSting vulnerability (CVE-2024-34102) is a critical severity information disclosure flaw; when chained with CVE-2024-2961, a security issue in glibc’s iconv function, an attacker can achieve remote code execution on the […]
Critical Ivanti RCE flaw with public exploit now used in attacks
CISA warned today that a critical Ivanti vulnerability that can let threat actors gain remote code execution on vulnerable Endpoint Manager (EPM) appliances is now actively exploited in attacks. Ivanti EPM is an all-in-one endpoint management solution that helps admins manage client devices on various platforms, including Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and IoT operating systems. Tracked […]
Critical Zimbra RCE flaw exploited to backdoor servers using emails
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers that can be triggered simply by sending specially crafted emails to the SMTP server. The Zimbra remote code execution flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-45519 and exists in Zimbra’s postjournal service, which is used to parse incoming emails over SMTP. Attackers can exploit the […]
Ivanti warns of another critical CSA flaw exploited in attacks
Today, Ivanti warned that threat actors are exploiting another Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) security flaw in attacks targeting a limited number of customers. Tracked as CVE-2024-8963, this admin bypass vulnerability is caused by a path traversal weakness. Successful exploitation allows remote unauthenticated attackers to access restricted functionality on vulnerable CSA systems (used as gateways to provide enterprise users secure […]
CISA warns of actively exploited Apache HugeGraph-Server bug
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added five flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, among which is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-27348 and rated critical (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8), is an improper access control vulnerability that impacts HugeGraph-Server versions from 1.0.0 and up to, […]
Hackers targeting WhatsUp Gold with public exploit since August
Hackers have been leveraging publicly available exploit code for two critical vulnerabilities in the WhatsUp Gold network availability and performance monitoring solution from Progress Software. The two flaws exploited in attacks since August 30 are SQL injection vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671 that allow retrieving encrypted passwords without authentication. Despite the vendor addressing the security issues more than two […]