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Week in review: Dangerous Bluetooth, EU cybersecurity certification, how Equifax hackers got in
2017-09-18 01:30

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Equifax breach happened because of a missed patch The attackers who breached Equifax managed to do so by exploiting a vulnerability in its US website, the company has finally confirmed. The vulnerability in question was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. Organizations struggle to maximize the value of threat intelligence Amidst growing concerns of large-scale cyber attacks, 84 percent of organizations participating in a … More →


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-03-11 CVE-2017-5638 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in multiple products
The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.
network
low complexity
apache ibm lenovo hp oracle arubanetworks netapp CWE-755
critical
9.8

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Bluetooth 4 3 10 3 0 16