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Fortinet on Monday disclosed that a newly patched critical flaw impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy may have been "Exploited in a limited number of cases" in attacks targeting government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, concerns a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy SSL-VPN that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specifically crafted requests.
Infosec in brief Security firms helping Progress Software dissect the fallout from a ransomware attack against its MOVEit file transfer suite have discovered more issues that the company said could be used to stage additional exploits. The newly discovered exploits are distinct from the issue reported earlier, and as such another patch for MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Cloud have been issued to fix this latest discovered bug.
Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems. "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges," Microsoft disclosed in an advisory issued last month as part of Patch Tuesday updates.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have published a joint advisory regarding the active exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer application to drop ransomware. "The Cl0p Ransomware Gang, also known as TA505, reportedly began exploiting a previously unknown SQL injection vulnerability in Progress Software's managed file transfer solution known as MOVEit Transfer," the agencies said.
VMware issued multiple security patches today to address critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Networks, allowing attackers to gain remote execution or access sensitive information. Previously known as vRealize Network Insight, this network visibility and analytics tool helps admins optimize network performance or manage and scale various VMware and Kubernetes deployments.
MOVEit is managed file transfer software from Progress, an application development and digital experience technologies provider. Aspx is the native file used by MOVEit Transfer for its web interface.
Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.Tracked as CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.
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A critical flaw in Progress Software's in MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer application has come under widespread exploitation in the wild to take over vulnerable systems."An SQL injection vulnerability has been found in the MOVEit Transfer web application that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer's database," the company said.
A critical zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software's enterprise managed file transfer solution MOVEit Transfer is being exploited by attackers to grab corporate data. " could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment," the company warned on Wednesday, and advised customers to take action to protect their MOVEit Transfer environment, "While our team produces a patch."