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October “In the Trend of VM” (#20): vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA/FTD and sudo

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October In the Trend of VM (#20): vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA/FTD and sudo

October “In the Trend of VM” (#20): vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA/FTD and sudo. A traditional monthly roundup. This time, once again, no Microsoft vulnerabilities. 😲

🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗞 Post on SecurityLab (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website (rus)

Only three identifiers in total:

🔻 Remote Code Execution – Cisco ASA/FTD (CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362). This vulnerability chain has been exploited in attacks since May 2025, but there are no public exploits yet.
🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Sudo (CVE-2025-32463). There are signs of in-the-wild exploitation and many public exploits are available.

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About Remote Code Execution – Cisco ASA/FTD (CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362) vulnerability

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About Remote Code Execution - Cisco ASA/FTD (CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution – Cisco ASA/FTD (CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362) vulnerability. Cisco ASA and FTD are among the most widely used solutions for perimeter protection and for providing remote access to corporate infrastructure. 🔗 On September 25, Cisco released updates addressing a chain of vulnerabilities that could allow attackers take full control of affected devices:

🔻 Vulnerability CVE-2025-20362 allows an unauthenticated attacker to access a restricted URL.

🔻 Vulnerability CVE-2025-20333 allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code as root.

👾 Cisco reports that the vulnerability chain has been exploited in attacks since May 2025. The attacks are linked to the ArcaneDoor campaign and use the LINE VIPER and RayInitiator malware.

🛠 There are no public exploits yet.

🌐 Shadowserver shows over 45,000 vulnerable hosts, with more than 2,000 of them in Russia.

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May “In the Trend of VM” (#15): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and the Erlang/OTP framework

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May In the Trend of VM (#15): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and the Erlang/OTP framework

May “In the Trend of VM” (#15): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and the Erlang/OTP framework. A traditional monthly vulnerability roundup. 🙂

🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website (rus)

A total of 4 trending vulnerabilities:

🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2025-29824)
🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Process Activation (CVE-2025-21204)
🔻 Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2025-24054)
🔻 Remote Code Execution – Erlang/OTP (CVE-2025-32433)

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About Remote Code Execution – Erlang/OTP (CVE-2025-32433) vulnerability

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About Remote Code Execution - Erlang/OTP (CVE-2025-32433) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution – Erlang/OTP (CVE-2025-32433) vulnerability. Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements for high availability. Used in telecom, banking, e-commerce, telephony, and messaging. OTP is a set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

A message handling vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH server allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. The code runs in the context of the SSH daemon. If the daemon is running as root, this grants full control over the device.

🔻 The vendor bulletin was released on April 16. Updated versions: OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20.

🔻 On April 17, a write-up and a PoC exploit (developed using AI) appeared on the Platform Security blog.

🔻 Cisco devices are affected – and likely not the only ones. 😏

👾 No signs of exploitation in the wild so far.

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February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW

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February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW. Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting vulnerabilities.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239140

Let’s start with my open source projects.

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Joint Advisory AA22-279A and Vulristics

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Joint Advisory AA22-279A and Vulristics. Hello everyone! This episode will be about the new hot twenty vulnerabilities from CISA, NSA and FBI, Joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) AA22-279A, and how I analyzed these vulnerabilities using my open source project Vulristics.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239105

Americans can’t just release a list of “20 vulnerabilities most commonly exploited in attacks on American organizations.” They like to add geopolitics and point the finger at some country. Therefore, I leave the attack attribution mentioned in the advisory title without comment.

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Security News: Exchange ProxyShell, Zoom RCE, Citrix Canceled PT Acknowledgments, Cisco No Patch Router RCEs

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Security News: Exchange ProxyShell, Zoom RCE, Citrix Canceled PT Acknowledgments, Cisco No Patch Router RCEs. Hello everyone! This is a new episode with my comments on the latest Information Security news.

Exchange ProxyShell

I want to start with something about attacks on Exchange. ProxyShell is in the news, the LockFile ransomware compromised more than 2000 servers. On the other hand, there is basically nothing to say here.

ProxyShell is the name for 3 vulnerabilities. The bulletins for Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-34473 and Server Elevation of Privilege CVE-2021-34523 were released on July 13, but were fixed by April Patch Tuesday patches. Yes, it happens sometimes. The bulletin for Security Feature Bypass CVE-2021-31207 was released on May 11. Users had 4 months to install the updates. Interestingly, 2 out of 3 vulnerabilities have the property “Less likely to be exploited”. As you can see, it’s pretty useless.

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