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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 4, 2023 – Attackers Hit Network Devices and More

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Collectively, these episodes highlight the need for comprehensive cybersecurity defenses and timely patch management for risk mitigation. Unpatched devices can give attackers privileged access to networks, particularly those set up as VPN virtual servers, ICA proxies, RDP proxies, or AAA servers. Versions of RocketMQ before 5.1.0

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VulnRecap 2/12/24: Ivanti, JetBrains, Fortinet, Linux Issues

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This code exists in all software that uses Secure Boot, like SUSE, Red Hat, and Debian. The RCE vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-40547 and has a severity rating of 8.3. Orca Security published a blog post about the vulnerabilities — its researchers discovered and reported the issues in Fall 2023, and Microsoft quickly patched them.

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Patch Tuesday Targets 74 Flaws, Including Microsoft Teams, Office

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for August 2023 addresses 74 vulnerabilities, six of them critical. The six critical vulnerabilities discussed in the release note are as follows: CVE-2023-29328 and CVE-2023-29330 , a pair of remote code execution flaws in Microsoft Teams with a CVSS score of 8.8 exe and hvciscan_arm64.exe),

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VulnRecap 3/11/24 – JetBrains & Atlassian Issues Persist

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We’ve seen multiple over the last couple of months, but these are new and not to be confused with CVEs from 2023. JetBrains released a detailed blog post explaining the specific timeline of discovering the vulnerabilities, the conflict with Rapid7, and JetBrains’ stance on releasing vulnerability information. LTS) 8.5.5 (LTS)

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

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Most Compromises Exploit Unmanaged Devices Microsoft’s fourth annual Digital Defense Report for 2023 reveals that 80% of all ransomware compromises come from unmanaged devices and that 60% of those attacks use remote encryption. Sophos X-Ops illustrates how remote encryption operates beyond security tool detection.

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Vulnerability Recap 3/19/24 – Microsoft, Fortinet & More

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March 8, 2024 150,000 Fortinet Secure Web Gateways Remain Exposed Type of vulnerability: Arbitrary code execution (ACE). The problem: The FortiOS SSL VPN feature vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762, disclosed February 8th , remains exposed to attack on nearly 150,000 devices according to the ShadowServer Foundation website.