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New episode “In the Trend of VM” (#12): 8 February CVEs & Why the Darknet Matters for VM Specialists

New episode “In the Trend of VM” (#12): 8 February CVEs & Why the Darknet Matters for VM Specialists. Now with a new design and new video editing. 😉

📹 Video on YouTube and LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:00 Greetings
🔻 00:23 Remote Code Execution – Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112)
🔻 01:35 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Configuration Manager (CVE-2024-43468)
🔻 02:38 Remote Code Execution – Windows OLE (CVE-2025-21298)
🔻 03:55 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335)
🔻 05:02 Authentication Bypass – FortiOS/FortiProxy (CVE-2024-55591)
🔻 06:16 Remote Code Execution – 7-Zip (CVE-2025-0411)
🔻 07:27 Should a VM specialist be aware of what is happening in the Darknet?
🔻 08:48 About the digest of trending vulnerabilities

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Should a VM specialist be aware of what is happening in the Darknet?

Should a VM specialist be aware of what is happening in the Darknet?

Should a VM specialist be aware of what is happening in the Darknet? Of course. At least roughly. Otherwise, he’ll fall for the “nobody’s attacking us” myth. 😏

The reality is that every organization is under attack all the time. It’s like commercial fishing with trawlers. Anything that gets caught in the nets will be classified, priced, and put up for sale. 🐟 In today’s world of cybercrime, access to an organization’s infrastructure is a commodity. 🏪 The same is true for vulnerabilities, exploits, and ready-made malware.

Attacker groups have specialized:

🔻 some research vulnerabilities and write exploits
🔻 others embed them in malware
🔻 still others implement bypass of the InfoSec systems
🔻 the fourth get primary access
🔻 fifth people monetize this access 💰
🔻 sixth support the operation of trading platforms

And whether these guys can break your organization depends on you, VM specialist!

🟥 PT has published a large study on this topic. 👍

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#11): vulnerabilities that became trending in December and the final report on trending vulnerabilities for 2024

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#11): vulnerabilities that became trending in December and the final report on trending vulnerabilities for 2024. I made this episode exclusively for the Telegram channel @avleonovcom “Vulnerability Management and More”. 😉

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:00 Greetings
🔻 00:28 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144)
🔻 01:30 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138)
🔻 02:37 Remote Code Execution – Apache Struts (CVE-2024-53677)
🔻 03:31 Authentication Bypass – Hunk Companion WordPress plugin (CVE-2024-11972)
🔻 04:44 Trending vulnerabilities for 2024

👾 08:10 Channel mascot 😅

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I have finalized the list of trending vulnerabilities for 2024 according to Positive Technologies

I have finalized the list of trending vulnerabilities for 2024 according to Positive Technologies

I have finalized the list of trending vulnerabilities for 2024 according to Positive Technologies. Last year, 74 vulnerabilities were classified as trending (to compare the scale, just over 40,000 were added to NVD in 2024).

All trending vulnerabilities are found in Western commercial products and open source projects. This year, the vulnerabilities of domestic Russian products did not reach the level of criticality required to classify them as trending.

For 55 of all trending vulnerabilities there are currently signs of exploitation in attacks, for 17 there are public exploits (but no signs of exploitation) and for the remaining 2 there is only a possibility of future exploitation.

Vulnerabilities were often added to trending ones before signs of exploitation in the wild appeared. For example, the remote code execution vulnerability in VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812) was added to the list of trending vulnerabilities on September 20, 3 days after the vendor’s security bulletin appeared. There were no signs of exploitation in the wild or public exploit for this vulnerability. Signs of exploitation appeared only 2 months later, on November 18.

Most of the vulnerabilities in the trending list are of the following types: Remote Code or Command Execution (24) and Elevation of Privilege (21).

4 vulnerabilities in Barracuda Email Security Gateway (CVE-2023-2868), MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2023-34362), papercut (CVE-2023-27350) and SugarCRM (CVE-2023-22952) were added in early January 2024. These vulnerabilities were massively exploited in the West in 2023, and attacks using these vulnerabilities could also tangentially affect those domestic Russian organizations where these products had not yet been taken out of service. The rest of the vulnerabilities became trending in 2024.

34 trending vulnerabilities affect Microsoft products (45%).

🔹 17 of them are Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel and standard components.

🔹 1 Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Licensing Service (CVE-2024-38077).

2 trending Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities affect Linux systems: one in nftables (CVE-2024-1086), and the second in needrestart (CVE-2024-48990).

Other groups of vulnerabilities

🔻 Phishing attacks: 19 (Windows components, Outlook, Exchange, Ghostscript, Roundcube)
🔻 Network security and entry points: 13 (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, Ivanti, Check Point, Zyxel)
🔻 Virtual infrastructure and backups: 7 (VMware, Veeam, Acronis)
🔻 Software development: 6 (GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, PHP, Fluent Bit, Apache Struts)
🔻 Collaboration tools: 3 (Atlassian Confluence, XWiki)
🔻 CMS WordPress plugins: 3 (LiteSpeed Cache, The Events Calendar, Hunk Companion)

🗒 Full Vulristics report

🟥 Article on the official website “Vulnerable software and hardware vs. security researchers” (rus)

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:29 Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2024-43451)
🔻 01:16 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039)
🔻 02:16 Spoofing – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-49040)
🔻 03:03 Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990)
🔻 04:11 Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575)
🔻 05:19 Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012)
🔻 06:32 Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474)
🔻 07:42 Path Traversal – Zyxel firewall (CVE-2024-11667)
🔻 08:37 Is it possible to Manage Vulnerabilities with no budget?
🔻 09:53 Should a VM specialist specify a patch to install on the host in a Vulnerability Remediation task?
🔻 10:51 Full digest of trending vulnerabilities
🔻 11:18 Backstage

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:37 Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090)
🔻 01:46 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250)
🔻 02:38 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573)
🔻 03:43 Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982)
🔻 04:44 The scandal with the removal of Russian maintainers at The Linux Foundation, its impact on security and possible consequences.
🔻 05:22 Social “Attack on the complainer
🔻 06:35Ford’s method” for motivating IT staff to fix vulnerabilities: will it work?
🔻 08:00 About the digest, habr and the question contest 🎁
🔻 08:29 Backstage

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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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