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Today is Microsoft's June 2023 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 78 flaws, including 38 remote code execution vulnerabilities. While thirty-eight RCE bugs were fixed, Microsoft only listed six flaws as 'Critical,' including denial of service attacks, remote code execution, and privilege elevation.
Fortinet on Monday disclosed that a newly patched critical flaw impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy may have been "Exploited in a limited number of cases" in attacks targeting government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, concerns a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy SSL-VPN that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specifically crafted requests.
Progress Software customers who use the MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution might not want to hear it, but they should quickly patch their on-prem installations again: With the help of researchers from Huntress, the company has uncovered additional SQL injection vulnerabilities that could potentially be used by unauthenticated attackers to grab data from the web application's database. "The investigation is ongoing, but currently, we have not seen indications that these newly discovered vulnerabilities have been exploited," the company said, and confirmed that they've "Deployed a new patch to all MOVEit Cloud clusters to address the new vulnerabilities."
Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw in its FortiGate firewalls that could be abused by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, is "Reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance," Lexfo Security researcher Charles Fol, who discovered and reported the flaw, said in a tweet over the weekend.
Fortinet has released new Fortigate firmware updates that fix an undisclosed, critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in SSL VPN devices. While not mentioned in the release notes, security professionals and admins have hinted that the updates quietly fixed a critical SSL-VPN RCE vulnerability that would be disclosed on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023.
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Progress Software, the company behind the MOVEit Transfer application, has released patches to address brand new SQL injection vulnerabilities affecting the file transfer solution that could enable the theft of sensitive information. "Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities have been identified in the MOVEit Transfer web application that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to the MOVEit Transfer database," the company said in an advisory released on June 9, 2023.
Progress Software warned customers today of newly found critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in its MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution that can let attackers steal information from customers' databases. "An attacker could submit a crafted payload to a MOVEit Transfer application endpoint which could result in modification and disclosure of MOVEit database content," Progress says in an advisory published today.
On the positive side, Apple hosted its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week with announcements around the new Vision Pro 'spatial computer' powered by the new visionOS, iOS 17 updates, the upcoming Sonoma OS release, new M2 hardware, and much more. On the negative side, in mid-May Apple released zero-day updates to address three critical vulnerabilities.
Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.Tracked as CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.