02 Dec, 2024

Palo Alto Networks patches two firewall zero-days used in attacks

Palo Alto Networks has finally released security updates for two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW). The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-0012, is an authentication bypass found in the PAN-OS management web interface that remote attackers can exploit to gain administrator privileges without requiring authentication or user interaction. The second one (CVE-2024-9474) is a PAN-OS privilege escalation […]

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Critical RCE bug in VMware vCenter Server now exploited in attacks

Broadcom warned today that attackers are now exploiting two VMware vCenter Server vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical remote code execution flaw. TZL security researchers reported the RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-38812) during China’s 2024 Matrix Cup hacking contest. It is caused by a heap overflow weakness in the vCenter’s DCE/RPC protocol implementation and affects products […]

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LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin bug lets hackers get admin access

The free version of the popular WordPress plugin LiteSpeed Cache has fixed a dangerous privilege elevation flaw on its latest release that could allow unauthenticated site visitors to gain admin rights. LiteSpeed Cache is a caching plugin used by over six million WordPress sites, helping to speed up and improve user browsing experience. The newly discovered high-severity flaw […]

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