All news with #advisory tag

🔒 The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) warns of imminent exploitation of two critical Check Point VPN vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, urging immediate patching. Check Point issued fixes on September 9 (SK1000117, SK1000118) and provided LivePatch and hotfix releases for affected versions including R81.20, R82, and R82.10. Administrators are advised to apply updates promptly and restrict Site-to-Site VPN access to trusted IPs where possible.

🖥️ Administrators report that September 2026 cumulative updates are causing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025, preventing users from connecting and sometimes requiring hard resets. Affected servers often run normally for hours after patching before RDS connections start failing; existing sessions may not disconnect and new connections hang. Rolling back the updates restores functionality, but also removes security fixes. Microsoft is aware and investigating.

🛡️ OWASP has revised its Top 10 list of critical vulnerabilities affecting large language model (LLM) applications, combining expert voting with real-world incident data. The update keeps prompt injection and sensitive information disclosure as the top two risks, while excessive agency rises to No. 3 as agentic systems become more common. The list outlines causes and prioritized mitigations organizations should apply across all ten categories.

🔒 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that threat actors are actively exploiting a critical command injection vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8037, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on unpatched appliances via unsanitized API inputs. Progress released patches in June for affected GA and LTSF versions, and CISA has directed federal agencies to remediate within three days.

🚨 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an urgent directive requiring federal agencies to mitigate actively exploited vulnerabilities in IBM Langflow, N-central, and Apache Tomcat within three days. The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-9198, impacts Langflow and permits unauthenticated remote code execution via chained API endpoints. Vendors have released patches and a hotfix, but incomplete fixes and public proof-of-concept exploits have enabled ongoing attacks. CISA added all three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and urged immediate remediation.

🔒 N‑able has issued a hotfix (2026.3.1.7) after detecting active exploitation of an authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2026-18577, affecting hosted and on-premises N-central servers. The vendor disclosed the issue on August 1 and released an update the following day, urging immediate upgrade to versions 2026.3 or later. Hosted deployments were updated automatically; on-premises customers must install the patch manually. Indicators of compromise and mitigation guidance are available on the hotfix download page.

🛡️ The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published What To Do When Cyber-Attacks Disrupt Your Organisation, outlining three chronological stages for response: immediate hours and days, recovery to minimum viable operations, and longer-term restoration to business as usual. The guidance emphasizes preparing in advance, practicing realistic simulations, and engaging NCSC-vetted incident response firms to build resilience against escalating threats such as AI-accelerated attacks.

🔒 Arista has released patches for a critical vulnerability in VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) that is actively being exploited in the wild. The vendor warned the flaw may allow remote attackers to access privileged internal functionality and impact VCO hosts, affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Customers are urged to upgrade to fixed releases (VCO 5.2.3.14+, 6.1.3.4+, 6.4.2.4+) and to consider incident response actions such as credential rotation and device validation. Advisors stressed the severity—an unauthenticated command‑injection in an orchestration platform—and warned that on‑premises users often receive fixes more slowly than cloud deployments.

🛡️ Check Point released security updates for Security Management and Multi-Domain Management products to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2026-16232) actively exploited in the wild. The flaw enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain a SmartConsole login token and gain full administrative privileges if Management is exposed to the internet without Trusted Client or firewall restrictions. Additional patches cover two other high-severity issues (CVE-2026-62144 and CVE-2026-62145). Customers are urged to apply the July 22 Jumbo hotfix, restrict Trusted Clients to trusted IPs, and secure Management access with firewall protections.

🛡️ Eclypsium launched InfraTrust and a monthly InfraTrust Pulse to aggregate vendor infrastructure advisories and guide administrators on which flaws to patch first. The inaugural July 2026 Pulse tracked 61 advisories from 14 vendors, flagging six critical advisories and 26 remotely exploitable, unauthenticated vulnerabilities. The report emphasizes prioritizing flaws by exploitability, exposure, and real-world risk rather than CVSS alone.

🛡️ OpenSSL received a silent June fix for a denial-of-service issue Okta branded "HollowByte," which causes servers to allocate up to 131 KB per TLS ClientHello before the body arrives. The bug lets attackers exhaust connections and, on glibc systems, fragment the heap so freed memory remains resident until process restart. Fixed releases are 4.0.1, 3.6.3, 3.5.7, 3.4.6, and 3.0.21 dated June 9, but OpenSSL chose to treat the change as a "bug or hardening" without a CVE, advisory, or changelog note.

🛡️ This Unit 42 advisory, developed in partnership with Siemens, describes a chained exploit of three zero-day vulnerabilities in Siemens ROX II OT switches. The chain (CVE-2025-40948, CVE-2025-40947, CVE-2025-40949) enables arbitrary file disclosure, root privilege escalation and persistent root execution, risking full device compromise. Siemens has issued advisories and a firmware update V2.17.1; Palo Alto Networks provides virtual patching and OT device protections.

🔒 CISA has warned that three Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities are being actively exploited and urged organizations to immediately patch on-premises SharePoint deployments. Administrators should follow Microsoft’s mitigation guidance, enable AMSI integration, hunt for indicators of compromise, and rotate machine keys where appropriate. The agency added CVE-2026-33201, CVE-2026-45659, and the newly listed CVE-2026-56164 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and required rapid remediation for federal agencies.

🔒 July’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft addressed an unprecedented number of vulnerabilities, with reports of 570–622 CVEs (620 if platform-level fixes are counted), plus hundreds in Chromium. The release includes many high-severity flaws — notably elevation of privilege and remote code execution bugs — with only three zero-days and 59 critical issues. Microsoft’s new summary-style advisories and its AI-powered MDASH scanning explain the surge, forcing organizations to reassess patch management and prioritization.

🔒 Cyber agencies from 12 countries warn that Russian FSB Centre 16 (aka Berserk Bear/Static Tundra) is scanning the internet for routers using default or weak SNMP credentials and occasionally exploiting known CVEs in Cisco devices. Sectors such as communications, defence, energy, finance, government and healthcare are urged to adopt SNMPv3, patch affected systems and disable vulnerable features like Smart Install when patching is not possible. The advisory links Centre 16’s tactics to broader disruptive campaigns and coincides with UK/EU attribution of late 2025 attacks on Poland’s energy grid to the group.

🔒 Cisco Talos disclosed multiple vulnerabilities across WolfSSL, GeoVision, and VTK-DICOM, all of which have been patched by vendors in line with Cisco’s disclosure policy. The findings include three WolfSSL issues (two improper input validation and one integer underflow), 14 GeoVision advisories spanning 37 CVEs, and one heap-based buffer overflow in VTK-DICOM. Snort rules to detect exploit attempts are available from Snort.org. Discoveries were made by Ankur Tyagi, Philippe Laulheret, and Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos.

🔧 Adobe has issued emergency updates to fix a maximum-severity ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) that is now being actively exploited, the Canadian Center for Cyber Security (CCCS) warned. The flaw affects ColdFusion 2025.9, 2023.20, and earlier, enabling unauthenticated remote code execution on unpatched systems. Adobe urges administrators to install the patch immediately, and Shadowserver reports nearly 800 exposed ColdFusion instances online.

🔐 The FBI and CISA warn that Russian-linked threat actors have shifted phishing tactics to steal Signal Backup Recovery Keys, enabling access to users' historical messages. The campaign, tracked as UNC5792 and UNC4221, targets high-value individuals including officials, journalists, and military personnel. Attackers impersonate Signal support, trick users into enabling backups and then request the recovery key to restore data to attacker-controlled devices. Authorities advise that official support never asks for codes or recovery keys and recommend reporting incidents to the FBI or CISA.

🔒 CISA warns that malicious actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices using compromised credentials, a campaign dubbed FortiBleed affecting roughly 74,000 devices including firewalls and VPN gateways. The agency urges immediate actions such as terminating active SSL VPN and administrative sessions, resetting credentials, enforcing strong password policies, and ensuring secure credential storage using PBKDF2. Organizations should review logs for suspicious activity, enable phishing-resistant MFA for remote and administrative access, and restrict management interfaces from public internet exposure.

🔒 A security issue was identified in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Analytics PavilionX due to improper authorization enforcement in API endpoints, allowing unauthorized actors to perform privileged operations such as user and role management. Rockwell Automation recommends updating PavilionX to version 7.01 or later. CISA advises minimizing network exposure of control system devices, isolating them behind firewalls, and using secure remote access methods while performing impact analysis before defensive changes.