Security News

Week in review: Critical git vulnerabilities, increasingly malicious Google Search ads
2023-01-22 09:30

Cacti servers under attack by attackers exploiting CVE-2022-46169If you're running the Cacti network monitoring solution and you haven't updated it since early December, now is the time to do it to foil attackers exploiting a critical command injection flaw. PoC for critical ManageEngine bug to be released, so get patching!If your enterprise is running ManageEngine products that were affected by CVE-2022-47966, check now whether they've been updated to a non-vulnerable version because Horizon3 will be releasing technical details and a PoC exploit this week.

Exploits released for two Samsung Galaxy App Store vulnerabilities
2023-01-20 20:09

Two vulnerabilities in the Galaxy App Store, Samsung's official repository for its devices, could enable attackers to install any app in the Galaxy Store without the user's knowledge or to direct victims to a malicious web location. The Korean smartphone maker announced on January 1, 2023 that it fixed the two flaws and released a new version for Galaxy App Store.

Critical RCE vulnerabilities found in git (CVE-2022-41903, CVE-2022-23251)
2023-01-19 12:04

A source code audit has revealed two critical vulnerabilities affecting git, the popular distributed version control system for collaborative software development. Aside from the two critical issues, a high severity flaw has also been patched in the Git GUI for Windows.

Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link Routers
2023-01-18 10:20

Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Netcomm and TP-Link routers, some of which could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, concern a case of stack-based buffer overflow and authentication bypass and impact Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions earlier than R6B035.

Cisco Issues Warning for Unpatched Vulnerabilities in EoL Business Routers
2023-01-14 04:11

Cisco has warned of two security vulnerabilities affecting end-of-life Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers that it said will not be fixed, even as it acknowledged the public availability of proof-of-concept exploit. The issues are rooted in the router's web-based management interface, enabling a remote adversary to sidestep authentication or execute malicious commands on the underlying operating system.

Vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries found through modern fuzzing
2023-01-13 14:47

Recently patched vulnerabilities in MatrixSSL and wolfSSL, two open-source TLS/SSL implementations / libraries for embedded environments, have emphasized the great potential of using fuzzing to uncover security holes in implementations of cryptographic protocols. Fuzzing cryptographic libraries to flag security flaws.

Critical vulnerabilities in Siemens PLC devices could allow bypass of protected boot features (CVE-2022-38773)
2023-01-12 15:29

Red Balloon Security disclosed multiple, critical architectural vulnerabilities in the Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS S7-1500 Series PLC that allow for bypass of all protected boot features. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow offline attackers to generate arbitrary encrypted firmware that are bootable on all Siemens S7-1500 series PLC CPU modules.

Crypto audit of Threema revealed many vulnerabilities
2023-01-11 12:24

Researchers have discovered cryptographic vulnerabilities in Swiss-based secure messaging application Threema that may have allowed attackers to do things like break authentication or recover users' long-term private keys. The vulnerabilities have been fixed and Threema has since switched to a new communication protocol they designed with the help of external cryptographers.

GitHub makes it easier to scan your code for vulnerabilities
2023-01-09 19:27

GitHub has introduced a new option to set up code scanning for a repository known as "Default setup," designed to help developers configure it automatically with just a few clicks. While the CodeQL code analysis engine, which powers GitHub's code scanning, comes with support for many languages and compilers, the new option only shows up for Python, JavaScript, and Ruby repositories.

New Study Uncovers Text-to-SQL Model Vulnerabilities Allowing Data Theft and DoS Attacks
2023-01-09 13:37

A group of academics has demonstrated novel attacks that leverage Text-to-SQL models to produce malicious code that could enable adversaries to glean sensitive information and stage denial-of-service attacks. The findings, which were validated against two commercial solutions BAIDU-UNIT and AI2sql, mark the first empirical instance where natural language processing models have been exploited as an attack vector in the wild.