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An initial audit from RubyGems reveals that the vulnerability has not been exploited within the last 18 months to alter any gems, but a deeper audit is still in progress with results yet to be announced. This week, RubyGems announced that a critical bug could've enabled any RubyGems.org user to yank versions of a gem that they didn't have authorization for, and replace the gem's contents with newer files.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution attacks via CVE-2022-1388."This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, or disable services," F5 warned yesterday.

F5 has issued a security advisory warning about a flaw that may allow unauthenticated attackers with network access to execute arbitrary system commands, perform file actions, and disable services on BIG-IP. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-1388 and has a CVSS v3 severity rating of 9.8, categorized as critical. According to F5's security advisory, the flaw lies in the iControl REST component and allows a malicious actor to send undisclosed requests to bypass the iControl REST authentication in BIG-IP. Due to the severity of the vulnerability and the widespread deployment of BIG-IP products in critical environments, CISA has also issued an alert today.

Security researchers have disclosed a security vulnerability in the VirusTotal platform that could have been potentially weaponized to achieve remote code execution. The flaw, now patched, made it possible to "Execute commands remotely within VirusTotal platform and gain access to its various scans capabilities," Cysource researchers Shai Alfasi and Marlon Fabiano da Silva said in a report exclusively shared with The Hacker News.

Cloud computing and virtualization technology firm VMWare on Thursday rolled out an update to resolve a critical security flaw in its Cloud Director product that could be weaponized to launch remote code execution attacks. "An authenticated, high privileged malicious actor with network access to the VMware Cloud Director tenant or provider may be able to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability to gain access to the server," VMware said in an advisory.

In this video for Help Net Security, Yakir Kadkoda, Lead Security Researcher, and Assaf Morag, Lead Data Analyst at Aqua Security, talk about new npm flaws that allow attackers to target packages for account takeover. Npm is the default package manager for Node.js, an open-source, crossplatform JavaScript runtime environment.

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the popular Wyze Cam devices that grant malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and access camera feeds as well as unauthorizedly read the SD cards, the latter of which remained unresolved for nearly three years after the initial discovery. The security flaws relate to an authentication bypass, a remote code execution bug stemming from a stack-based buffer overflow, and a case of unauthenticated access to the contents of the SD card.

A research from Detectify found that subdomain takeovers are on the rise but are also getting harder to monitor as domains now seem to have more vulnerabilities in them. Our research found that of the number of scanned apex and subdomains from 2020 to 2021, vulnerabilities increased as much as 25%. Subdomain takeovers and vulnerabilities per domains on the rise.

TLStorm exploits expose more than 20 million UPS units to takeover. The exploits come, said Armis head of research Barak Hadad, in a time when even the least likely of devices has an internet connection that turns it into a potential threat.

Zenly, a social app from Snap that allows users to see the locations of friends and family on a live map, contains a pair of vulnerabilities that could endanger those being tracked. "When submitting a friend request to a user, Zenly will allow access to their phone number regardless of whether the friend request is accepted or not," explained the researchers, in a Thursday posting.