Security software company Sophos has released a patch update for its firewall product after it was discovered that attackers were exploiting a new critical zero-day vulnerability to attack its customers' network. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-3236 (CVSS score: 9.8), impacts Sophos Firewall v19.0 MR1 (19.0.1) and older and concerns a code injection vulnerability in the User … [Read more...] about Hackers Exploited Zero-Day RCE Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall — Patch Released
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Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Patch New Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google on Friday shipped emergency fixes to address a security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-3075, concerns a case of insufficient data validating in Mojo, which refers to a collection of runtime libraries that provide a platform-agnostic mechanism for inter-process … [Read more...] about Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Patch New Zero-Day Vulnerability
August Patch Tuesday 2022: Updates and Analysis
Microsoft has released 121 security patches for its August 2022 Patch Tuesday rollout. Seventeen vulnerabilities are rated Critical in severity and the rest are classified as Important, with one (CVE-2022-34713) under active exploitation. In this blog, the CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight™ team analyzes this month’s vulnerabilities, highlights the most severe CVEs and recommends … [Read more...] about August Patch Tuesday 2022: Updates and Analysis
July Patch Tuesday 2022: Updates and Analysis
Microsoft has released 84 security patches for its July 2022 Patch Tuesday rollout. Four vulnerabilities are rated Critical in severity and the rest are classified as Important, with one (CVE-2022-22047) under active exploitation. In this blog, the CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight™ team offers an analysis of this month’s vulnerabilities, as well as insights into the vulnerabilities … [Read more...] about July Patch Tuesday 2022: Updates and Analysis
SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products
Network security company SonicWall on Friday rolled out fixes to mitigate a critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability affecting its Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22280, is rated 9.4 for severity on the CVSS scoring system and stems from what the company describes is an "improper neutralization of special … [Read more...] about SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products
Atlassian Releases Patch for Confluence Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in the Wild
Atlassian on Friday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting its Confluence Server and Data Center products that have come under active exploitation by threat actors to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-26134, the issue is similar to CVE-2021-26084 — another security flaw the Australian software company patched in August 2021. Both relate … [Read more...] about Atlassian Releases Patch for Confluence Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in the Wild
GitLab Issues Security Patch for Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability
GitLab has moved to address a critical security flaw in its service that, if successfully exploited, could result in an account takeover. Tracked as CVE-2022-1680, the issue has a CVSS severity score of 9.9 and was discovered internally by the company. The security flaw affects all versions of GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) starting from 11.10 before 14.9.5, all versions … [Read more...] about GitLab Issues Security Patch for Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability
Cisco Issues Patch for New IOS XR Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Cisco on Friday rolled out fixes for a medium-severity vulnerability affecting IOS XR Software that it said has been exploited in real-world attacks. Tracked as CVE-2022-20821 (CVSS score: 6.5), the issue relates to an open port vulnerability that could be abused by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to a Redis instance and achieve code execution. "A successful … [Read more...] about Cisco Issues Patch for New IOS XR Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Security Patch Releases for Critical Zero-Day Bug in Java Spring Framework
The maintainers of Spring Framework have released an emergency patch to address a newly disclosed remote code execution flaw that, if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of a targeted system. Tracked as CVE-2022-22965, the high-severity flaw impacts Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and other older, … [Read more...] about Security Patch Releases for Critical Zero-Day Bug in Java Spring Framework
March 2022 Patch Tuesday: Updates and Analysis
Microsoft has released 71 security patches for its March Patch Tuesday rollout. Of the 71 CVEs addressed, three are ranked as Important zero-days. This month the quantity of patches for Critical vulnerabilities remains low; however, the total number of updates is nearly double what was offered in February 2022. As vulnerabilities and patches continue to be released, and as … [Read more...] about March 2022 Patch Tuesday: Updates and Analysis