GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs

[ad_1] Mar 15, 2024NewsroomHardware Security / Data Protection A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines speculative execution and race conditions. “All the common…

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Researchers Detail Kubernetes Vulnerability That Enables Windows Node Takeover

[ad_1] Mar 14, 2024NewsroomContainer Security / Vulnerability Details have been made public about a now-patched high-severity flaw in Kubernetes that could allow a malicious attacker to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges under specific circumstances. “The vulnerability allows remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster,” Akamai security…

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Fortinet Warns of Severe SQLi Vulnerability in FortiClientEMS Software

[ad_1] Mar 14, 2024The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Network Security Fortinet has warned of a critical security flaw impacting its FortiClientEMS software that could allow attackers to achieve code execution on affected systems. “An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiClientEMS may allow an unauthenticated attacker to…

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CTEM 101 – Go Beyond Vulnerability Management with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

[ad_1] Mar 12, 2024The Hacker NewsCTEM / Vulnerability Management In a world of ever-expanding jargon, adding another FLA (Four-Letter Acronym) to your glossary might seem like the last thing you’d want to do. But if you are looking for ways to continuously reduce risk across your environment while making significant and consistent improvements to security…

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Proof-of-Concept Exploit Released for Progress Software OpenEdge Vulnerability

[ad_1] Mar 11, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability Technical specifics and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit have been made available for a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Progress Software OpenEdge Authentication Gateway and AdminServer, which could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2024-1403, the vulnerability has a maximum severity rating of 10.0 on…

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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability

[ad_1] Mar 08, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8), refers to an authentication bypass bug that…

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New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks

[ad_1] Feb 27, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Data Security Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks. “It’s possible to send malicious pull requests with attacker-controlled data from the Hugging Face service to any…

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WordPress LiteSpeed Plugin Vulnerability Puts 5 Million Sites at Risk

[ad_1] Feb 27, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Website Security A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable unauthenticated users to escalate their privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-40000, the vulnerability was addressed in October 2023 in version 5.7.0.1. “This plugin suffers from unauthenticated site-wide stored [cross-site scripting] vulnerability and could allow…

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WordPress Plugin Alert – Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites

[ad_1] Feb 27, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Cryptojacking A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers has been credited with discovering…

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Researchers Detail Apple’s Recent Zero-Click Shortcuts Vulnerability

[ad_1] Feb 23, 2024NewsroomData Privacy / iOS Security Details have emerged about a now-patched high-severity security flaw in Apple’s Shortcuts app that could permit a shortcut to access sensitive information on the device without users’ consent. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23204 (CVSS score: 7.5), was addressed by Apple on January 22, 2024, with the release…

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