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October 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Three Zero-Days Flaws

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for October 2023 covers a total of 103 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting WordPad, Skype and the HTTP/2 “ Rapid Reset ” DDoS vulnerability. CVE-2023-41763 , an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Skype for Business with a CVSS score of 5.3

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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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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 30, 2023 – Citrix & Cisco Haunted by Vulnerabilities

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It can also be a challenge for security and IT pros even to know everything they own — a vulnerable device may have been forgotten — so asset management is an increasingly important part of vulnerability management. The problem: CVE-2023-20198 , with a highest-possible CVSS Score of 10.0, and CVE-2023-20273 with a CVSS Score of 7.2,

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – August 21, 2023 – When ACE Equals Bad

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Here’s a roundup of the week’s major vulnerabilities that security teams should mitigate or patch. A few small errors in the implementation of AES Encryption allows for unauthenticated ACE, and the security firm GreyNoise notes a significant spike in attackers trying to exploit this vulnerability.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 9, 2023 – Zero-Days Strike Android, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco & More

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The sheer number of security issues underscores the need for strong patch and vulnerability management — and for cyber resilience that goes deeper than common preventive measures. The problem: Arm has issued a security alert on CVE-2023-4211 , an actively exploited vulnerability in its Mali GPU drivers.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 18, 2023 – Patch Tuesday Also For Adobe, Apple and More

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This week, the following active exploits of vulnerabilities were announced: Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploits January 2023 vulnerabilities in Fortinet firewalls and ManageEngine software to perform remote code execution (RCE) on U.S. Read More: The 8 Best Vulnerability Scanner Tools for 2023 What is Patch Management?

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – November 6, 2023 – Windows Drivers and Exchange Flaws

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30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6