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Attackers are leveraging a vulnerability in Anyscale's Ray AI software to compromise enterprise servers and saddle them with cryptominers and reverse shells."We observed hundreds of compromised clusters in the past three weeks alone. Each cluster uses a public IP address, and most clusters contain hundreds to thousands of servers. There are hundreds of servers that are still vulnerable and exposed."
Ivanti has fixed a critical RCE vulnerability in Ivanti Standalone Sentry that has been reported by researchers with the NATO Cyber Security Centre. The vulnerability affects all supported version of Ivanti Standalone Sentry as well as older, unsupported ones.
Proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical RCE vulnerability in Fortra FileCatalyst MFT solution has been published.Fortra FileCatalyst is an enterprise managed file transfer software solution that includes several components: FileCatalyst Direct, Workflow, and Central.
A recently fixed SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Endpoint Management Server solution has apparently piqued the interest of many: Horizon3's Attack Team means to publish technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for it next week, and someone is attempting to sell a PoC for less than $300 via GitHub. "An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiClientEMS may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted requests," the company's product security incident response team pithily states in the associated advisory.
Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities in its Unified Data Protection solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC exploit script demonstrating the attack, as well as one for triggering a third flaw that can lead to denial of service.
Cisco has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Cisco Secure Client enterprise VPN and endpoint security solution, one of which could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to grab users' valid SAML authentication token."The attacker could then use the token to establish a remote access VPN session with the privileges of the affected user," Cisco says, but notes that "Individual hosts and services behind the VPN headend would still need additional credentials for successful access."
Apple has fixed two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in the wild. "Additional CVE entries [are] coming soon," Apple noted for both updates.
JetBrains has fixed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting TeamCity On-Premises and is urging customers to patch them immediately. "Rapid7 originally identified and reported these vulnerabilities to us and has chosen to adhere strictly to its own vulnerability disclosure policy. This means that their team will publish full technical details of these vulnerabilities and their replication steps within 24 hours of this notice," the company stated today.
The recently patched vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software are being exploited by numerous attackers to deliver a variety of malicious payloads. After PoC exploits for CVE-2024-1709 have been made public, various attackers began targeting vulnerable public-facing ScreenConnect servers, hoping to use them as a way into enterprise networks.
The report from Coalition indicates an anticipated 25% rise in the total count of published common vulnerabilities and exposures for 2024, reaching 34,888 vulnerabilities, equivalent to approximately 2,900 per month.Sharp CVE increase heightens software vulnerability concerns.