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Adobe has released security patches tackling four critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Bridge, along with other critical and important-rated updates for bugs in Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Photoshop and RoboHelp. In all, Adobe fixed 10 security holes in its products during its scheduled April updates, seven of them listed as critical.
Adobe has released security updates that address security vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Bridge, and RoboHelp. In total, the company addressed ten security vulnerabilities affecting four products, with seven of them rated as critical as they allow arbitrary code execution or arbitrary file writes.
An exploit is now publicly available for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting QNAP network-attached storage devices that run the Surveillance Station video management system. The bug, specifically a memory corruption issue, was found to impact QNAP NAS devices running Surveillance Station versions 5.1.5.4.2 and 5.1.5.3.2, and was addressed in February this year.
Networking equipment major Cisco Systems has said it does not plan to fix a critical security vulnerability affecting some of its Small Business routers, instead urging users to replace the devices. The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-1459, is rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10, and affects RV110W VPN firewall and Small Business RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected appliance.
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Cisco this week announced patches for tens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a critical severity issue impacting the SD-WAN vManage software. Tracked as CVE-2021-1479 with a CVSS score of 9.8, the critical bug exists because of improper validation of user-supplied input and could allow an attacker to trigger a buffer overflow by sending a crafted connection request to the remote management component of SD-WAN vManage.
The April 2021 Android security bulletin published this week by Google describes more than 30 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, including a remote code execution flaw in the System component. Tracked as CVE-2021-0430 and affecting Android 10 and 11, the code execution vulnerability is deemed critical severity.
A critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance could be exploited to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable systems. Carbon Black Cloud Workload is a data center security product from VMware that aims to protect critical servers and workloads hosted on vSphere, the company's cloud-computing virtualization platform.
Cyber attackers are actively setting their sights on unsecured SAP applications in an attempt to steal information and sabotage critical processes, according to new research. "Observed exploitation could lead in many cases to full control of the unsecured SAP application, bypassing common security and compliance controls, and enabling attackers to steal sensitive information, perform financial fraud or disrupt mission-critical business processes by deploying ransomware or stopping operations," cybersecurity firm Onapsis and SAP said in a joint report published today.
A critical security vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance would allow privilege escalation and the ability to take over the administrative rights for the solution. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload platform is designed to provide cybersecurity defense for virtual servers and workloads that are hosted on the VMware's vSphere platform.