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Atlassian has released fixes to contain an actively exploited critical zero-day flaw impacting publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances. The vulnerability, tracked as...
Atlassian today said miscreants have exploited a critical bug in on-premises instances of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center to create and abuse admin accounts within the enterprise colab software. "Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances," according to a Wednesday advisory from the software giant.
Apple released emergency security updates to patch a new zero-day security flaw exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and iPad users. The zero-day is caused by a weakness discovered in the XNU kernel that enables local attackers to escalate privileges on unpatched iPhones and iPads.
Australian software company Atlassian released emergency security updates to fix a maximum severity zero-day vulnerability in its Confluence Data Center and Server software, which has been exploited in attacks. "Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances," the company said.
Qualcomm has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities in its Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers. Vulnerabilities exploited in Qualcomm GPU and DSP drivers.
Google has released the October 2023 security updates for Android, addressing 54 unique vulnerabilities, including two known to be actively exploited. CVE-2023-4211 is an actively exploited flaw impacting multiple versions of Arm Mali GPU drivers used in a broad range of Android device models.
Chipmaker Qualcomm has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities in various components, while warning that three other zero-days have come under active exploitation. Of the 17 flaws,...
Qualcomm is warning of three zero-day vulnerabilities in its GPU and Compute DSP drivers that hackers are actively exploiting in attacks. Qualcomm says it has released security updates that address the issues in its Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers, and impacted OEMs were also notified.
Microsoft released emergency security updates for Edge, Teams, and Skype to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source libraries used by the three products. The libwebp library is used by a large number of projects for encoding and decoding images in the WebP format, including modern web browsers like Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and the native Android web browsers, as well as popular apps like 1Password and Signal.
The US's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the latest actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting Google Chrome to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.With its addition to the KEV Catalog, CISA has effectively indicated that exploits for the vulnerability pose a "Significant risk to the federal enterprise," and agencies in the Federal Civilian Executive Branch have been set a three-week deadline of October 23 to apply the recommended fixes.