Category: Security, Vulnerabilities

In a new campaign, threat actors have been trying to access EC2 Instance Metadata, which consists of sensitive virtual server information like IP address, instance ID, and security credentials by exploiting server-side request forgery (SSRF) bugs in websites hosted on AWS. According to observations made by F5 Labs, threat actors exploited Instance Metadata Service version…

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Meta is warning Whatsapp users of an issue affecting its Windows rollouts that could allow attackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) on systems running the vulnerable releases. Tracked as CVE-2025-30401, the flaw potentially allows threat actors to trick users into running maliciously crafted files with misleading filename extensions. “Due to a failing in Whatsapp,…

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Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass the supposed protection. This warning comes after researchers at Qualys found three different ways this hardening feature can, under certain circumstances, be bypassed.  “It needs…

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Broadcom is warning customers of a high-severity, authentication bypass flaw, now fixed, affecting VMWare Tools for Windows. Tracked as CVE-2025-22230, the issue stems from improper access control and could allow privilege escalation on the affected system. “An authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows was privately reported to VMware,” said Broadcom in a security…

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The Kubernetes project has released patches for five vulnerabilities in a widely used popular component called the Ingress NGINX Controller that’s used to route external traffic to Kubernetes services. If exploited, the flaw could allow attackers to completely take over entire clusters. “Based on our analysis, about 43% of cloud environments are vulnerable to these…

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a patched, high-severity vulnerability affecting NAKIVO’s backup and replication software to its known exploited vulnerability (KEV) catalog. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-48248, is a path traversal issue that received a high severity rating with CVSS 8.6 out of 10 and was marked “critical” by NAKIVO in…

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Keysight Technologies’ Ixia Vision product family has been found to contain critical security vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to compromise affected devices. According to a newly issued alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), these flaws expose the devices to risks such as remote code execution, unauthorized file downloads, and system crashes,…

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Businesses around the globe have over 12,000 vulnerable instances of the GFI KerioControl application — a unified threat management (UTM) firewall software designed for small and mid-sized enterprises. The unpatched instances remained high weeks after the patches were issued for a critical RCE bug. Tracked as CVE-2024-52875, the vulnerability is an improper input sanitization error…

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Apple has rolled out emergency security patches after discovering that an “extremely sophisticated attack” exploited a flaw in its USB Restricted Mode, potentially targeting specific individuals. The company released updates for iOS and iPadOS to fix the vulnerability, which could allow attackers with physical access to disable security protections on locked devices. “A physical attack…

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Hackers are exploiting a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Cityworks deployments — a GIS-centric asset and work order management software —  to execute codes on a customers’ Microsoft web servers. In a coordinated advisory with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Cityworks’ developer Trimble said that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0994…

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Cisco is warning enterprise admins of two critical flaws within its identity and management (IAM) solution, Identity Services Engine (ISE), that could allow attackers to obtain unauthorized privileges and run arbitrary commands on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-20124 and CVE-2025-20125, the flaws have received a critical severity rating of CVSS 9.9 and 9.1 out of…

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VMware has fixed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its cloud management platform (CMP), VMware Aria, which could allow attackers to steal sensitive credentials from the virtualization giant’s IT management and logging solutions. Parent company Broadcom, in an advisory issued on Thursday, revealed that two out of five recently disclosed vulnerabilities are “high severity” information disclosure flaws…

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Vulnerability remediation is taking a severe hit as security teams are faced with fatigue from a growing number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. According to an analysis by S&P Global Ratings, a joint division of S&P Global and the cyber risk analytics company Guidewire, almost three-quarters of organizations are either occasionally or infrequently remediating the vulnerabilities…

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