Tag: privilege escalation

  • The Register: 1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/22/palo_alto_firewalls_under_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: 1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole Feedly Summary: PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to…

  • Slashdot: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in the Linux utility “needrestart,” crucial for professionals in security and compliance to recognize, as they highlight significant risks associated with resource…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/20/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-38812 VMware vCenter Server Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2024-38813 VMware vCenter Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors…

  • The Register: Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/palo_alto_networks_patches/ Source: The Register Title: Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches Feedly Summary: Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers Palo Alto Networks (PAN) finally released a CVE identifier and patch for the zero-day exploit that caused such a fuss last week.… AI Summary and…

  • The Register: Critical 9.8-rated VMware vCenter RCE bug exploited after patch fumble

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/vmware_vcenter_rce_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: Critical 9.8-rated VMware vCenter RCE bug exploited after patch fumble Feedly Summary: If you didn’t fix this a month ago, your to-do list probably needs a reshuffle Two VMware vCenter server bugs, including a critical heap-overflow vulnerability that leads to remote code execution (RCE), have been exploited in…

  • The Register: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/fortinet_vpn_authentication_bypass_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost Feedly Summary: Plus a bonus hard-coded local API key A now-patched, high-severity bug in Fortinet’s FortiClient VPN application potentially allows a low-privilege rogue user or malware on a vulnerable Windows system to gain higher…

  • Cloud Blog: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-enhancing-your-adversarial-emulation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation Feedly Summary: Matthijs Gielen, Jay Christiansen Background New solutions, old problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are here to signal a new day in the cybersecurity world, but what does that mean for us—the attackers…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-the-high-security-cost-of-legacy-tech/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today I’m joined by Andy Wen, Google Cloud’s senior director of product management for Google Workspace, to discuss a new Google survey into the high security…

  • Hacker News: Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

    Source URL: https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/ Source: Hacker News Title: Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents a detailed case study of a vulnerability exploitation chain discovered in Ubuntu 24.04, demonstrating a privilege escalation from a default user to root through the improper handling of…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/12/cisa-adds-five-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added five new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-26086 Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2014-2120 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability CVE-2021-41277 Metabase GeoJSON API Local…