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The US's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the latest actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting Google Chrome to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.With its addition to the KEV Catalog, CISA has effectively indicated that exploits for the vulnerability pose a "Significant risk to the federal enterprise," and agencies in the Federal Civilian Executive Branch have been set a three-week deadline of October 23 to apply the recommended fixes.

CISA also plans to create a guide to best practices in open source security for government entities and critical infrastructure organizations, according to the roadmap. CISA notes that open source software can lead to great innovation; however, CISA said, vulnerabilities like the widespread Log4shell vulnerability in 2021 mean open source software can introduce insidious flaws in widely-used code.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has announced it is offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities, such as water utilities, to help protect these crucial units from hacker attacks. "(CISA) can help your drinking water and wastewater system identify and address vulnerabilities with a no-cost vulnerability scanning service subscription.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered federal agencies today to patch security vulnerabilities abused as part of a zero-click iMessage exploit chain to infect iPhones with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. On Monday, CISA added the two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, tagging them as "Frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors" and posing "Significant risks to the federal enterprise."

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday warned that multiple nation-state actors are exploiting security flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to gain unauthorized access and establish persistence on compromised systems. "Nation-state advanced persistent threat actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized access to a public-facing application, establish persistence, and move laterally through the network," according to a joint alert published by the agency, alongside Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Cyber National Mission Force.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities a critical-severity issue tracked as CVE-2023-33246 that affects Apache's RocketMQ distributed messaging and streaming platform. CISA is warning federal agencies that they should patch the CVE-2023-33246 vulnerability for Apache RocketMQ installations on their systems by September 27.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical security flaw in Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-26359, relates to a deserialization flaw present in Adobe ColdFusion 2018 and ColdFusion 2021 that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user without requiring any interaction.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical security flaw in Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, based on evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation. "This vulnerability affects all currently supported versions of customer-managed ShareFile storage zones controller before version 5.11.24," Citrix said in an advisory released in June.

CISA is warning that a critical Citrix ShareFile secure file transfer vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-24489 is being targeted by unknown actors and has added the flaw to its catalog of known security flaws exploited in the wild. "A vulnerability has been discovered in the customer-managed ShareFile storage zones controller which, if exploited, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely compromise the customer-managed ShareFile storage zones controller," Citrix explains.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft's.NET and Visual Studio products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.