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October Linux Patch Wednesday

October Linux Patch Wednesday

October Linux Patch Wednesday. There are 248 vulnerabilities in total. Of these, 92 are in the Linux Kernel.

5 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild:

🔻 Remote Code Execution – CUPS (CVE-2024-47176) and 4 more CUPS vulnerabilities that can also be used to enhance DoS attacks
🔻 Remote Code Execution – Mozilla Firefox (CVE-2024-9680)

For 10 vulnerabilities there are no signs of exploitation in the wild yet, but exploits exist. Among them, the following can be highlighted:

🔸 Remote Code Execution – Cacti (CVE-2024-43363)
🔸 Elevation of Privilege – Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-46848)
🔸 Arbitrary File Reading – Jenkins (CVE-2024-43044)
🔸 Denial of Service – CUPS (CVE-2024-47850)
🔸 Cross Site Scripting – Rollup JavaScript module (CVE-2024-47068)

🗒 Vulristics October Linux Patch Wednesday Report

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September Linux Patch Wednesday

September Linux Patch Wednesday

September Linux Patch Wednesday. 460 vulnerabilities. Of these, 279 are in the Linux Kernel.

2 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild, but without public exploits:

🔻 Security Feature Bypass – Chromium (CVE-2024-7965)
🔻 Memory Corruption – Chromium (CVE-2024-7971)

29 vulnerabilities with no sign of exploitation in the wild, but with a link to a public exploit or a sign of its existence. Can be highlighted:

🔸 Remote Code ExecutionpgAdmin (CVE-2024-2044), SPIP (CVE-2024-7954), InVesalius (CVE-2024-42845)
🔸 Command Injection – SPIP (CVE-2024-8517)

Among them are vulnerabilities from 2023, fixed in repos only now (in RedOS):

🔸 Remote Code Executionwebmin (CVE-2023-38303)
🔸 Code Injection – webmin (CVE-2023-38306, CVE-2023-38308)
🔸 Information DisclosureKeePass (CVE-2023-24055)

Debian brought “Google Chrome on Windows” vulnerabilities. 😣👎

🗒 Vulristics September Linux Patch Wednesday Report

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August Linux Patch Wednesday

August Linux Patch Wednesday

August Linux Patch Wednesday. 658 vulnerabilities. Of these, 380 are in the Linux Kernel. About 10 have signs of exploitation in the wild. I will highlight:

🔻 Vulnerabilities of IT Asset Management system GLPI: AuthBypass (CVE-2023-35939, CVE-2023-35940) and Code Injection (CVE-2023-35924, CVE-2023-36808, CVE-2024-27096, CVE-2024-29889). Fixed in RedOS.
🔻 InfDisclosure – Minio (CVE-2023-28432). Old and trendy, but also fixes appeared only in RedOS.
🔻 DoS – PHP (CVE-2024-2757). If I were to take into account Fedora or Alpine bulletins, this would be in an earlier LPW. 🤔 2DO.

About 30 without signs of exploitation in the wild, but with exploits. I will highlight:

🔸 Command Injection – Apache HTTP Server (CVE-2024-40898)
🔸 AuthBypass – Apache HTTP Server (CVE-2024-40725)
🔸 AuthBypass – Neat VNC (CVE-2024-42458)
🔸 RCE – Calibre (CVE-2024-6782); yes, e-books software 🙂

🗒 Vulristics report on August Linux Patch Wednesday

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July Linux Patch Wednesday

July Linux Patch Wednesday

July Linux Patch Wednesday. There are 705 vulnerabilities, of which 498 are in the Linux Kernel. There are no vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild yet, 11 have public exploits.

🔻 RCE – OpenSSH “regreSSHion” (CVE-2024-6387) is in the absolute top with many variations of exploits on GitHub. Mind the malicious fakes (❗️). I will also mention a similar vulnerability RCE – OpenSSH (CVE-2024-6409) with no exploits yet.
🔻 Public PoC links for DoS in Suricata (CVE-2024-38536) and QEMU (CVE-2024-3567).

According to BDU, public exploits exist for:

🔸 AuthBypass – RADIUS Protocol (CVE-2024-3596), it was also fixed in the July MSPT
🔸 Security Feature Bypass – Exim (CVE-2024-39929) – mime_filename blocking bypass, as well as in Nextcloud (CVE-2024-22403) – eternal OAuth codes
🔸 DoS – OpenTelemetry (CVE-2023-45142)
🔸 Memory Corruption – 7-Zip (CVE-2023-52168)

🗒 Vulristics report on July Linux Patch Wednesday

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TOP 5 CVEs that were most often exploited by Positive Technologies pentesters in 2023

TOP 5 CVEs that were most often exploited by Positive Technologies pentesters in 2023. The report was released on July 2. I generated a rap track on this topic in Russian using Suno. 🙂 English subtitles available.

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Exchange “ProxyNotShell” (CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41080, CVE-2022-41082)
🔻 Remote Code Execution – Bitrix Site Manager “PollsVotes” (CVE-2022-27228)
🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Polkit “PwnKit” (CVE-2021-4034)

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Trending vulnerabilities for June according to Positive Technologies

Trending vulnerabilities for June according to Positive Technologies. Traditionally, in 3 formats (in Russian):

📹 The section “Trending VM” in the SecLab news video (starts at 15:03)
🗞 Post on the Habr website, in fact this is a slightly expanded scenario for the “Trending VM” section
🗒 Compact digest with technical details on the official PT website

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows CSC (CVE-2024-26229)
🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (CVE-2024-26169)
🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-30088)
🔻 RCE in PHP (CVE-2024-4577)
🔻 EoP in Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086)
🔻 InfDisclosure in Check Point Security Gateways (CVE-2024-24919)
🔻 RCE in VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-37079, CVE-2024-37080)
🔻 AuthBypass in Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-29849)

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