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Critical RCE Vulnerability Uncovered in Juniper SRX Firewalls and EX Switches
2024-01-13 10:45

Juniper Networks has released updates to fix a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-21591, is rated...

Juniper warns of critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches
2024-01-12 17:36

Juniper Networks has released security updates to fix a critical pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. CISA also warned in November of a Juniper pre-auth RCE exploit used in the wild, chaining four bugs tracked as CVE-2023-36844, CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-36846, and CVE-2023-36847 and impacted the company's SRX firewalls and EX switches.

Microsoft January 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 49 flaws, 12 RCE bugs
2024-01-09 19:05

Today is Microsoft's January 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for a total of 49 flaws and 12 remote code execution vulnerabilities. The total count of 49 flaws does not include 4 Microsoft Edge flaws fixed on January 5th. To learn more about the non-security updates released today, you can review our dedicated articles on the new Windows 11 KB5034123 cumulative update.

SQLi vulnerability in Cacti could lead to RCE (CVE-2023-51448)
2024-01-09 11:55

A blind SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti, a widely-used network monitoring, performance and fault management framework, could lead to information disclosure and potentially remote code execution.Cacti is often used in network operation centers of telecoms and web hosting providers, to collect network performance data and store it in RRDtool, a logging and graphing database and system that, through a web interface, creates graphical representations of the collected data.

Hackers target Apache RocketMQ servers vulnerable to RCE attacks
2024-01-05 17:32

Security researchers are detecting hundreds of IP addresses on a daily basis that scan or attempt to exploit Apache RocketMQ services vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw identified as CVE-2023-33246 and CVE-2023-37582. Apache released a fix that was incomplete for the NameServer component in RocketMQ and continued to affect versions 5.1 and older of the distributed messaging and streaming platform.

Apache OFBiz RCE flaw exploited to find vulnerable Confluence servers
2023-12-28 16:20

A critical Apache OFBiz pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability is being actively exploited using public proof of concept exploits. Online URL. The researchers further said those scanning vulnerable servers are particularly interested in finding vulnerable Confluence servers.

Ivanti releases patches for 13 critical Avalanche RCE flaws
2023-12-20 18:03

Ivanti has released security updates to fix 13 critical security vulnerabilities in the company's Avalanche enterprise mobile device management solution.As Ivanti explained on Wednesday, these security flaws are due to WLAvalancheService stack or heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses reported by Tenable security researchers and Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.

Microsoft discovers critical RCE flaw in Perforce Helix Core Server
2023-12-18 20:49

Four vulnerabilities, one of which is rated critical, have been discovered in the Perforce Helix Core Server, a source code management platform widely used by the gaming, government, military, and technology sectors. The four flaws discovered by Microsoft mainly involve denial of service issues, with the most severe allowing arbitrary remote code execution as LocalSystem by unauthenticated attackers.

Beware: Experts Reveal New Details on Zero-Click Outlook RCE Exploits
2023-12-18 15:43

Technical details have emerged about two now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Windows that could be chained by threat actors to achieve remote code execution on the Outlook email service sans...

Sophos backports RCE fix after attacks on unsupported firewalls
2023-12-12 17:29

Sophos was forced to backport a security update for CVE-2022-3236 for end-of-life firewall firmware versions after discovering hackers actively exploiting the flaw in attacks. Although the hotfix was automatically rolled out to appliances set to auto-accept security updates by the vendor, by January 2023, over 4,000 internet-exposed appliances remained vulnerable to attacks.