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2023-12-27 12:35
Barracuda has revealed that Chinese threat actors exploited a new zero-day in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to deploy backdoor on a "limited number" of devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-7102, the issue relates to a case of arbitrary code execution that resides within a third-party and open-source library Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that's used by the Amavis scanner within the
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2023-12-24 | CVE-2023-7102 | Unspecified vulnerability in Barracuda products Use of a Third Party library produced a vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Inc. | 9.8 |