Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

CISA has collaborated with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) to release an advisory, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security APT40 Tradecraft in Action outlining a PRC state-sponsored cyber group’s activity. The following organizations also collaborated with ASD’s ACSC on the guidance: The National Security Agency (NSA); The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK); The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS); The New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ); The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV); The…

Overview Background This advisory, authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ), the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and NIS’ National Cyber Security Center, and Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 2code — wpqa_builder  The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 6.1.1 does not have CSRF checks in some places, which could allow attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions via CSRF attacks 2024-07-03 8.8 CVE-2024-2376contact@wpscan.com ABB–ASPECT Enterprise (ASP-ENT-x)  Default credential in install package in ABB ASPECT; NEXUS Series; MATRIX Series version 3.07 allows attacker to login to product instances wrongly configured. 2024-07-01 8.8 CVE-2024-4007cybersecurity@ch.abb.com Adobe–Acrobat for Edge  Acrobat for Edge versions 126.0.2592.68 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file,…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info access_management_specialist_project — access_management_specialist  An issue in Shenzhen Weitillage Industrial Co., Ltd the access management specialist V6.62.51215 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. 2024-06-24 7.5 CVE-2024-37677cve@mitre.org aimeos–ai-client-html  ai-client-html is an Aimeos e-commerce HTML client component. Debug information revealed sensitive information from environment variables in error log. This issue has been patched in versions 2024.04.7, 2023.10.15, 2022.10.13 and 2021.10.22. 2024-06-25 8.8 CVE-2024-38516security-advisories@github.comsecurity-advisories@github.com amazon — freertos-plus-tcp  FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP is a lightweight TCP/IP stack for FreeRTOS. FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.0 contain a buffer over-read issue in the DNS Response…

Progress Software released a security bulletin to address a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer. A cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following bulletin and apply the necessary updates: MOVEit Transfer Critical Security Alert Bulletin – June 2024 – (CVE-2024-5806)

Today, CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre, and Canadian Cyber Security Center, released Exploring Memory Safety in Critical Open Source Projects. This guidance was crafted to provide organizations with findings on the scale of memory safety risk in selected open source software (OSS). This joint guidance builds on the guide The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps by providing a starting point for software manufacturers to create memory safe roadmaps, including plans to address memory safety in external dependencies which commonly include OSS. Exploring Memory Safety in Critical Open Source Projects…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 3uu–Shariff Wrapper  The Shariff Wrapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 4.6.13 via the shariff3uu_fetch_sharecounts function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included. 2024-06-20 9.8 CVE-2024-4098security@wordfence.comsecurity@wordfence.comsecurity@wordfence.com AMD–AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors 5900 WX-Series …

Today, CISA released Barriers to Single Sign-On (SSO) Adoption for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities, a detailed report exploring challenges to SSO adoption by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The report also identifies potential ways to overcome these challenges and improve an SMB’s level of security.  CISA also released a related blog post, Why SMBs Don’t Deploy Single Sign-On (SSO), urging software manufacturers to consider how their business practices may inadvertently reduce the security posture of their customers. For more information, visit CISA’s Secure by Design webpage. To learn more about identity and access management, visit Identity,…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info actpro — extra_product_options_for_woocommerce  Missing Authorization vulnerability in actpro Extra Product Options for WooCommerce.This issue affects Extra Product Options for WooCommerce: from n/a through 3.0.6. 2024-06-10 8.8 CVE-2024-35727audit@patchstack.com adfinis–document-merge-service  Document Merge Service is a document template merge service providing an API to manage templates and merge them with given data. Versions 6.5.1 and prior are vulnerable to remote code execution via server-side template injection which, when executed as root, can result in full takeover of the affected system. As of time of publication, no patched version exists, nor…

 Microsoft has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.   Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following advisory and apply the necessary updates:   Microsoft Security Update Guide for June

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 8theme–XStore Core  Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’) vulnerability in 8theme XStore Core allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects XStore Core: from n/a through 5.3.8. 2024-06-04 8.5 CVE-2024-33557audit@patchstack.com 8theme–XStore  Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’) vulnerability in 8theme XStore allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects XStore: from n/a through 9.3.8. 2024-06-04 9 CVE-2024-33560audit@patchstack.com ABB, Busch-Jaeger–2.4! Display 55, SD/U12.55.11-825  FDSK Leak in ABB, Busch-Jaeger, FTS Display (version 1.00) and BCU (version 1.3.0.33) allows attacker to take…

  High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info ASKEY–5G NR Small Cell  ASKEY 5G NR Small Cell fails to properly filter user input for certain functionality, allowing remote attackers with administrator privilege to execute arbitrary system commands on the remote server. 2024-05-27 7.2 CVE-2024-5403twcert@cert.org.tw Astrotalks–Astrotalks  SQL injection vulnerability in Astrotalks affecting version 10/03/2023. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated local user to send a specially crafted SQL query to the ‘searchString’ parameter and retrieve all information stored in the database. 2024-05-31 8.8 CVE-2024-5523cve-coordination@incibe.es Astrotalks–Astrotalks  Improper privilege management vulnerability in Astrotalks affecting version 10/03/2023. This…