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Tag : Vulnerabilities
reader comments 56 with 0 posters participating Share this story As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry out and give unauthenticated users on the Internet complete control, a security firm has warned. The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 9.8 out ..
QNAP Systems this week issued a warning on a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject malicious code on network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The Taiwan-based manufacturer is known for its NAS appliances and professional network video recorder (NVR) solutions, but also produces various types of networking equipment. Tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS score of 9.8), ..
A researcher has disclosed the details of a two-factor authentication (2FA) vulnerability that earned him a $27,000 bug bounty from Facebook parent company Meta. Gtm Manoz of Nepal discovered in September 2022 that a system designed by Meta for confirming a phone number and email address did not have any rate-limiting protection. A fix was ..
Printer and imaging products manufacturer Lexmark this week published a security advisory to warn users of a critical vulnerability impacting over 120 printer models. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-23560 (CVSS score of 9.0), is described as a server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in the Web Services feature of newer Lexmark devices, which could be exploited ..
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) this week announced patches for multiple high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The addressed issues could be exploited remotely to cause named – the BIND daemon that acts both as an authoritative name server and as a recursive resolver – to crash, or could lead to ..
Cloud risk management and threat detection firm Rapid7 warns that it has seen organizations being compromised in attacks exploiting a recently patched Zoho ManageEngine vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2022-47966, the security defect exists in a third-party dependency (Apache xmlsec, also known as XML Security for Java, version 1.4.1), allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely without ..
Several vulnerabilities described as having critical and high impact, including ones allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, have been found and patched in OpenText’s enterprise content management (ECM) product. The vulnerabilities were discovered by a researcher at cybersecurity consultancy Sec Consult in OpenText’s Extended ECM, which is designed for managing the distribution and use of information ..
A China-linked threat actor was observed exploiting a recently disclosed Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN vulnerability when it was still a zero-day, months before patches were released, Mandiant reports. The security bug, tracked as CVE-2022-42475 (CVSS score of 9.8), is described as a buffer overflow issue that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code ..
Drupal this week announced software updates that resolve a total of four vulnerabilities in Drupal core and three plugins, and which could lead to unauthorized access to data. The Drupal core issue exists because the Media Library module does not perform proper checks on entity access in some cases, which could allow users who can ..


