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Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning users about a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited to breach the company's Email Security Gateway appliances. "The vulnerability stems from incomplete input validation of a user-supplied.tar file as it pertains to the names of the files contained within the archive. As a consequence, a remote attacker can specifically format these file names in a particular manner that will result in remotely executing a system command through Perl's qx operator with the privileges of the Email Security Gateway product."

Barracuda, a company known for its email and network security solutions, warned customers today that some of their Email Security Gateway appliances were breached last week by targeting a now-patched zero-day vulnerability. While the flaw was patched over the weekend, Barracuda warned on Tuesday that some of its customers' ESG appliances were compromised by exploiting the now-patched security bug.

The U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday said a threat actor tracked as APT5 has been actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway to take over affected systems. Successful exploitation requires that the Citrix ADC or Citrix Gateway appliance is configured as a SAML service provider or a SAML identity provider.

Citrix strongly urges admins to apply security updates for an 'Critical' zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that is actively exploited by state-sponsored hackers to gain access to corporate networks. Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway version 13.1 are not affected by CVE-2022-27518, so upgrading to it solves the security problem.

Citrix is strongly urging admins to apply security updates for an actively exploited 'Critical' zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that allows a remote attacker to take control of a device. Citrix is warning admins to install the latest update "As soon as possible" as the vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks.

Citrix has released security updates to address a critical authentication bypass flaw in the application delivery controller and Gateway that could be exploited to take control of affected systems.Successful exploitation of the issues could enable an adversary to gain authorized access, perform remote desktop takeover, and even circumvent defenses against login brute-force attempts under specific configurations.

Citrix is urging customers to install security updates for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway."Note that only appliances that are operating as a Gateway are affected by the first issue, which is rated as a Critical severity vulnerability," explains the Citrix security bulletin.

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