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Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access
2025-02-19 00:15

If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two...

Critical Cisco ISE bug can let attackers run commands as root
2025-02-06 16:40

Cisco has fixed two critical Identity Services Engine (ISE) vulnerabilities that can let attackers with read-only admin privileges bypass authorization and run commands as root. [...]

Cisco Patches Critical ISE Vulnerabilities Enabling Root CmdExec and PrivEsc
2025-02-06 07:40

Cisco has released updates to address two critical security flaws Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on...

Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root
2024-11-20 19:04

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04. [...]

Cisco bug lets hackers run commands as root on UWRB access points
2024-11-06 19:34

Cisco has fixed a maximum severity vulnerability that allows attackers to run commands with root privileges on vulnerable Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points that provide...

QNAP patches second zero-day exploited at Pwn2Own to get root
2024-10-30 17:36

QNAP has fixed a second zero-day vulnerability exploited at the Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 hacking contest to gain a root shell and take over a TS-464 NAS device. [...]

VMware fixes critical RCE, make-me-root bugs in vCenter - for the second time
2024-10-22 17:02

If the first patches don't work, try, try again VMware has pushed a second patch for a critical, heap-overflow bug in the vCenter Server that could allow a remote attacker to fully compromise...

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder Vulnerability Exposes Nodes to Root Access Risk
2024-10-17 05:18

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Kubernetes Image Builder that, if successfully exploited, could be abused to gain root access under certain circumstances. The vulnerability,...

Critical default credential in Kubernetes Image Builder allows SSH root access
2024-10-16 21:58

It's called leaving the door wide open – especially in Proxmox A critical bug in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow unauthorized SSH access to virtual machines (VMs) thanks to default...

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs
2024-10-16 16:58

A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project. [...]