All news with #vulnerability disclosure tag

🔒 CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog affecting Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso. The issues—CVE-2025-6204 (code injection) and CVE-2025-6205 (missing authorization)—have evidence of active exploitation and pose significant risk. Under BOD 22-01, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must remediate KEV-listed CVEs by the required due dates. CISA strongly urges all organizations to prioritize timely remediation as part of routine vulnerability management.

🔴 Wordfence warns that threat actors are actively exploiting three critical 2024 CVEs in popular WordPress plugins, GutenKit and Hunk Companion, which report more than 40,000 and 8,000 active installations respectively. The vulnerabilities permit unauthenticated attackers to install and activate arbitrary plugins or upload spoofed plugin files, enabling remote code execution (RCE) and straightforward site takeover when exploited or chained with other flaws. Discovered via Wordfence's bug bounty in late September and early October, the campaign reignited on 8 October and the vendor has already blocked nearly 8.8 million exploitation attempts while urging administrators to update or remove affected versions.

🔔 CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog following evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2025-54236, affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento, and CVE-2025-59287, affecting Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The issues—an improper input validation flaw and a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability—are common attack vectors that pose significant risk to enterprise networks. Under BOD 22-01, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must remediate cataloged CVEs by required due dates, and CISA strongly urges all organizations to prioritize timely remediation as part of their vulnerability management.

🔐 Hackers gained access to a drivers' portal run by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) during the summer, potentially exposing Formula 1 driver records. The three individuals said they were fans who reported a vulnerability instead of pursuing malicious use and claimed they neither viewed nor stored sensitive data after noticing passport details could be retrievable. The FIA took the site offline, secured the system and worked with the researchers to strengthen the portal.

🔒 Researchers at Forescout’s Vedere Labs have disclosed two vulnerabilities in TP-Link Omada and Festa VPN routers that enable command injection and potential unauthorized root access. The flaws are tracked as CVE-2025-7850 (critical, CVSS v4.0 9.3) and CVE-2025-7851 (high, CVSS v4.0 8.7) and stem from an incomplete 2024 fix that left debug functionality and alternate attack paths. TP-Link has published firmware updates; Vedere Labs urges immediate patching and additional mitigations including WAFs, disabling remote admin, and improved monitoring.

⚠️ CISA added CVE-2025-61932 — an Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel vulnerability in Motex LANSCOPE Endpoint Manager — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after evidence of active exploitation. Under BOD 22-01, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must remediate KEV-listed vulnerabilities by mandated deadlines. CISA strongly urges all organizations to prioritize timely remediation as part of routine vulnerability management and will continue updating the KEV Catalog as new exploited vulnerabilities are confirmed.

⚠️Researchers disclosed a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-62518, CVSS 8.1) in the async-tar Rust library and forks such as tokio-tar that can enable remote code execution via file-overwrite attacks when processing nested TAR archives. Edera, which found the issue in late August 2025, attributes the problem to inconsistent PAX/ustar header handling that allows attackers to 'smuggle' additional entries by exploiting size overrides. Because tokio-tar appears unmaintained, users are advised to migrate to astral-tokio-tar v0.5.6, which patches the boundary-parsing vulnerability affecting projects like testcontainers and wasmCloud.

🔒 TP-Link has published firmware updates to address four security flaws in its Omada gateway devices, including two critical command injection vulnerabilities that could allow arbitrary command execution on the device OS. The issues are tracked as CVE-2025-6541, CVE-2025-6542, CVE-2025-7850 and CVE-2025-7851, affecting multiple ER, FR and G-series models. Users are urged to install the patched builds promptly and verify device configurations after upgrading.

⚠️ TP-Link has disclosed two command injection vulnerabilities affecting Omada gateway devices that allow execution of arbitrary OS commands. One issue, CVE-2025-6542 (CVSS 9.3), can be exploited remotely without authentication; the other, CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS 8.6), requires access to the web management interface. Thirteen models are listed as impacted and TP-Link has released firmware updates to address the flaws; administrators are urged to apply patches and verify configurations after upgrading.

🔒 CISA has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2025-61884, an unauthenticated SSRF in the Oracle Configurator runtime, and added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal agencies are required to patch the issue by November 10, 2025. Oracle released a fix on October 11 rated 7.5 and BleepingComputer says the update blocks a leaked exploit tied to ShinyHunters and related extortion activity.

⚠️ The latest releases of Cursor and Windsurf IDEs embed outdated Chromium and V8 engines that contain at least 94 known, patched vulnerabilities. Ox Security researchers demonstrated a proof‑of‑concept exploiting CVE-2025-7656 (a Maglev JIT integer overflow) to crash Cursor, and warn that similar flaws could enable denial‑of‑service or arbitrary code execution in real attacks. Attack vectors include deeplinks, malicious extensions, poisoned README previews or documentation; the two IDEs together serve an estimated 1.8 million developers. Cursor dismissed the DoS finding as out of scope and Windsurf did not respond to inquiries.

🔔 CISA released 10 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories providing technical details about vulnerabilities, impacts, and mitigations affecting multiple vendors. Notable entries include Rockwell Automation products (1783-NATR, Compact GuardLogix 5370), Siemens devices (SIMATIC S7-1200, RUGGEDCOM ROS), Schneider Electric Modicon controllers and HMI software, plus camera and networking products. Administrators should review each advisory and apply recommended mitigations promptly.

🔧 Microsoft released an out-of-band cumulative update, KB5070773, to restore USB mouse and keyboard functionality in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) after October 2025 security updates disabled USB input in recovery on affected client and server builds. The patch began rolling out on October 20, 2025 and Microsoft recommends installing the latest updates. If a device cannot boot to install the patch, workarounds include using a touchscreen’s touch keyboard, connecting PS/2 peripherals, or booting from a previously created USB recovery drive.

⚠️ CISA added five vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, confirming CVE-2025-61884 — an SSRF in the Runtime component of Oracle E-Business Suite — is being weaponized in the wild. The agency warns CVE-2025-61884 is remotely exploitable without authentication and follows active exploitation of CVE-2025-61882, a critical RCE bug. The KEV update also includes high-severity issues in Microsoft Windows SMB Client, Kentico Xperience CMS, and Apple JavaScriptCore, and FCEB agencies must remediate them by November 10, 2025.

🔒 CISA warns that threat actors are actively exploiting a high-severity Windows SMB vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-33073, which can allow elevation to SYSTEM on unpatched machines. Microsoft patched the flaw in its June 2025 Patch Tuesday release, citing an improper access control weakness that can be abused over a network. The bug affects Windows Server, Windows 10 and Windows 11 up to 24H2. Federal agencies must remediate within three weeks under BOD 22-01, and all organizations are urged to apply the update immediately.

🔒 ConnectWise released a security update for Automate to fix two vulnerabilities including a critical 9.6-severity flaw (CVE-2025-11492) that can cause agents to use cleartext HTTP, enabling adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) interception or modification of commands, credentials, and update payloads. A second 8.8-severity issue (CVE-2025-11493) omits integrity verification for update packages, allowing substituted malicious files. Cloud instances are patched to release 2025.9; on-premise administrators are urged to install the update within days.

🔒 Microsoft patched a critical HTTP request smuggling vulnerability (CVE-2025-55315) in the Kestrel ASP.NET Core web server, which Microsoft described as the highest-severity ASP.NET Core flaw ever. An authenticated attacker could smuggle an additional HTTP request to hijack other users' credentials, bypass front-end security controls, or impact integrity and availability. Microsoft released updates for Visual Studio 2022, ASP.NET Core 2.3, 8.0 and 9.0 and advised developers to apply updates, recompile where required, and restart or redeploy affected applications.

⚠️ Shadowserver Foundation reports 266,978 internet-exposed F5 BIG-IP instances after F5 disclosed a breach in which nation-state actors stole source code and information on undisclosed BIG-IP flaws. F5 issued patches addressing 44 vulnerabilities and urged immediate updates for BIG-IP, F5OS, BIG-IQ, and related products. CISA issued an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to patch or mitigate affected devices by set deadlines. Nearly half of the detected instances are in the United States, with most others across Europe and Asia.

⚠️Microsoft patched a critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability in the built‑in Kestrel web server and assigned it a CVSS score of 9.9, the highest rating the vendor has ever issued. Tracked as CVE-2025-55315, the flaw enables authenticated attackers to use HTTP request smuggling to bypass security checks and could allow actions such as logging in as another user, bypassing CSRF protections, or performing injection attacks. Microsoft advises updating affected runtimes or rebuilding and redeploying self‑contained apps, while noting that reverse proxies or gateways may already mitigate exposure.

🔒 Researchers disclosed a recently patched critical vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware (CVE-2025-9242, CVSS 9.3) that can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via an out-of-bounds write in the iked process. The flaw affects multiple Fireware branches, including 11.10.2 through 11.12.4_Update1 (EOL noted for 11.x), 12.0 through 12.11.3 and 2025.1, and has been fixed across several updates such as 2025.1.1 and 12.11.4. Administrators are urged to apply the vendor updates immediately, limit internet exposure of VPN interfaces, and follow vendor mitigation guidance until patches are deployed.