Security News

F5 Releases Critical Security Patch for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
2021-08-27 00:48

Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Chief among them is CVE-2021-23031, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall and BIG-IP Application Security Manager that allows an authenticated user to perform a privilege escalation.

F5 Releases Critical Security Patch for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
2021-08-27 00:48

Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Chief among them is CVE-2021-23031, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall and BIG-IP Application Security Manager that allows an authenticated user to perform a privilege escalation.

Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw
2021-08-26 06:00

Atlassian has warned users of its Confluence Server that they need to patch the product to remedy a Critical-rated flaw. Atlassian has released fixed versions of the product - namely versions 6.13.23, 7.4.11, 7.11.6, 7.12.5, and 7.13.0 - but the company's advisory suggests upgrading to the latest long-term service release.

Critical Flaw Discovered in Cisco APIC for Switches — Patch Released
2021-08-25 22:58

Cisco Systems on Wednesday issued patches to address a critical security vulnerability affecting the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller interface used in its Nexus 9000 Series Switches that could be potentially abused to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. " A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an affected device," the company said in an advisory.

Critical Flaw Discovered in Cisco APIC for Switches — Patch Released
2021-08-25 22:58

Cisco Systems on Wednesday issued patches to address a critical security vulnerability affecting the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller interface used in its Nexus 9000 Series Switches that could be potentially abused to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. " A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an affected device," the company said in an advisory.

Cisco Issues Critical Fixes for High-End Nexus Gear
2021-08-25 22:48

Cisco Systems released six security patches tied to its high-end 9000 series networking gear ranging in importance from critical, high and medium severity. The most serious of the bugs patched by Cisco could allow a remote and unauthenticated adversary to read or write arbitrary files on to an application protocol interface used in Cisco 9000 series switches designed to manage its software-defined networking data center solution.

Critical F5 BIG-IP bug impacts customers in sensitive sectors
2021-08-25 18:58

BIG-IP application services company F5 has fixed more than a dozen high-severity vulnerabilities in its networking device, one of them being elevated to critical severity under specific conditions. The issues are part of this month's delivery of security updates, which addresses almost 30 vulnerabilities for multiple F5 devices.

Mirai-style IoT botnet is now scanning for router-pwning critical vuln in Realtek kit
2021-08-25 17:11

A denial-of-service vulnerability affecting SDKs for Realtek chipsets used in 65 vendors' IoT devices has been incorporated into a son-of-Mirai botnet, according to new research. Warning that the vuln had been included in Dark.IoT's botnet "Less than a week" after it was publicly disclosed, Radware said: "This vulnerability was recently disclosed by IoT Inspectors Research Lab on August 16th and impacts IoT devices manufactured by 65 vendors relying on the Realtek chipsets and SDK.".

Critical ThroughTek SDK Bug Could Let Attackers Spy On Millions of IoT Devices
2021-08-20 08:21

A security vulnerability has been found affecting several versions of ThroughTek Kalay P2P Software Development Kit, which could be abused by a remote attacker to take control of an affected device and potentially lead to remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2021-28372 and discovered by FireEye Mandiant in late 2020, the weakness concerns an improper access control flaw in ThroughTek point-to-point products, successful exploitation of which could result in the "Ability to listen to live audio, watch real time video data, and compromise device credentials for further attacks based on exposed device functionality."

Critical Flaw Found in Older Cisco Small Business Routers Won't Be Fixed
2021-08-20 03:10

A critical vulnerability in Cisco Small Business Routers will not be patched by the networking equipment giant, since the devices reached end-of-life in 2019. "The Cisco Small Business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W Routers have entered the end-of-life process. Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Small Business RV132W, RV160, or RV160W Routers."