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Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. "A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the expected document root," the open-source project maintainers noted in an advisory published Tuesday.
The venerable Apache web server has just been updated to fix a dangerous remote code execution bug. This bug is already both widely-known and trivial to exploit, with examples now circulating freely on Twitter, and a single, innocent-looking web request aimed at your server could be enough for an attacker to take it over completely.
The Apache Software Foundation has hurried out a patch to address a pair of HTTP Web Server vulnerabilities, at least one of which is already being actively exploited. Apache's HTTP Server is widely used, and the vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-41524 and CVE-2021-41773, aren't great.
Unless you want to leak like a sieve The Apache Software Foundation has hurried out a patch to address a pair of HTTP Web Server vulnerabilities, at least one of which is already being actively exploited.…
The Apache Software Foundation has released version 2.4.50 of the HTTP Web Server to address two vulnerabilities, one of which is an actively exploited path traversal and file disclosure flaw.The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source, cross-platform web server that is extremely popular for being versatile, robust, and free.
The Apache Software Foundation has released version 2.4.50 of the HTTP Web Server to address two vulnerabilities, one of which is an actively exploited path traversal and file disclosure flaw. The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source, cross-platform web server that is extremely popular for being versatile, robust, and free.
Google has released the Android October security updates, addressing 41 vulnerabilities, all ranging between high and critical severity. On the 5th of each month, Google releases the complete security patch for the Android OS which contains both the framework and the vendor fixes for that month.
Google on Thursday pushed urgent security fixes for its Chrome browser, including a pair of new security weaknesses that the company said are being exploited in the wild, making them the fourth and fifth actively zero-days plugged this month alone. As is usually the case, the tech giant has refrained from sharing any additional details regarding how these zero-day vulnerabilities were used in attacks until a majority of users are updated with the patches, but noted that it's aware that "Exploits for CVE-2021-37975 and CVE-2021-37976 exist in the wild."
A report released Wednesday by cybersecurity firm Trustwave looks at why security flaws often go unpatched and how organizations can beef up their patch management. The report found that despite the high severity of some of the security flaws that popped up, more than 50% of the servers were unprotected weeks and even months after an update had been released.
Google on Friday rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that's known to have an exploit in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-37973, the vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a web page navigation system that enables a page to show another page as an inset and "Perform a seamless transition to a new state, where the formerly-inset page becomes the top-level document."