Tag: flaw
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint and Check Point SmartConsole flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SharePoint and Check Point flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)added DD-WRT, Langflow, and WordPress flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the KeV catalog: The first flaw added to the KeV…
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Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes
A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra’s webmail client.The payload goes after the last 90 days of email, the organization’s entire email directory, the password saved in the browser and the codes kept for two-factor recovery. Opening the message was enough to start it.The NSA, CISA…
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Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft
CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing attacks with the exploitation of a now-patched Zimbra vulnerability. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-hackers-exploit-zimbra-zero-click-flaw-for-email-theft/
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Russia-backed threat actor targets Western organizations in phishing campaign
The threat actor exploited a zero-day flaw in Zimbra to exfiltrate months of emails and other sensitive information. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/russia-threat-actor-western-organizations-Zimbra-phishing/826029/
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Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac.Accomplish AI, which shared details of the vulnerability with The Hacker News ahead of…
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New Kimi K3 AI Agent Uncovers Redis Remote Code Execution Flaws in Just 27 Minutes
Moonshot AI’s newly unveiled Kimi K3 model is attracting considerable attention in the cybersecurity community after successfully demonstrating its ability to autonomously identify critical vulnerabilities in Redis within minutes. This 2.8-trillion-parameter AI agent reportedly discovered multiple remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities across various Redis versions, specifically 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0. This highlights the increasing…
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OpenAI Models Breached Hugging Face During Internal Cyber Test
OpenAI models escaped from a controlled cyber test, exploited zero-day flaws and breached Hugging Face while searching its production database for test answers. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/openai-models-breached-hugging-face/
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New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/new-refluxfs-linux-flaw-lets-attackers-gain-root-privileges/
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Critical FreePBX Flaws Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and Take Over Administrator Accounts
Critical security vulnerabilities in FreePBX have been disclosed, exposing organizations to risks of unauthenticated remote code execution and the takeover of administrator accounts. These flaws, tracked under GitHub advisories GHSA-37j8-fhxx-9vhp and GHSA-g27h-xf3q-h3rm, affect FreePBX versions 16 and 17, carrying a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3, which highlights their severity. Security researchers warn that these…
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Critical FreeRDP Clipboard Flaw Could Let Malicious RDP Servers Execute Code
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in FreeRDP’s Windows client could allow a malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code on a connecting client. This flaw specifically affects the Clipboard Redirection (CLIPRDR) virtual channel in wfreerdp, where an attacker-controlled response can exceed the size that the client originally…
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Exim Vulnerability Lets Attackers Access Files Outside the Mail Spool
A high-severity directory traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the Exim mail transfer agent. This flaw allows local attackers to access files outside the intended mail spool directory and potentially escalate their privileges. It is tracked as EXIM-Security-2026-06-22.1 and assigned GCVE-25-2026-07-45-1. The vulnerability affects Exim versions 4.88 through 4.99.4 and was announced on July 22,…
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Flaws in Passkey Implementation Show Old Attacks Still Work
Ahead of Black Hat USA, researchers find exploitable flaws in how Microsoft handles passkeys that could allow attackers to impersonate privileged users. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/flaws-passkeys-implementation-old-attacks-work
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Attackers exploit critical Check Point flaw to take over firewall management (CVE-2026-16232)
Attackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-16232) that affects Check Point Security Management and Multi-Domain Security Management, the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/23/check-point-vulnerability-cve-2026-16232/
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Check Point patches actively exploited SmartConsole authentication bypass flaw
Check Point addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, in SmartConsole that is being actively exploited. Check Point has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score of 9.3), a critical authentication bypass flaw affecting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM). The vulnerability, which is under active exploitation, allows unauthenticated…
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Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access.Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives, Fedora Server, and Amazon Linux can meet the conditions for exploitation.The company demonstrated…
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Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild.The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an authentication bypass affecting the Check Point SmartConsole login process that allows an First seen…
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Check Point warns of SmartConsole zero-day exploited in attacks
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software has addressed an actively exploited zero-day flaw in the company’s SmartConsole graphical user interface (GUI) admin panel. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/check-point-patches-smartconsole-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/
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Critical RefluXFS Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Attackers Gain Root Access
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, identified as CVE-2026-64600 and referred to as RefluXFS. This vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to gain root access on systems that utilize reflink-enabled XFS filesystems. The flaw resides in the XFS copy-on-write path and has reportedly existed since the release of Linux kernel version 4.1 in 2017.…
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Critical Adobe Acrobat Chrome Extension Flaw “HermeticReader” Lets Hackers Hijack WhatsApp Chats of 300M+ Users
Guardio Labs has disclosed a critical vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could allow a malicious website to hijack and exfiltrate rendered WhatsApp Web data from affected users. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-48294 and has impacted Adobe Acrobat extension version 26.5.2. The extension is installed across approximately 329 million browsers. Adobe…
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CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections
Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-8933, a high-severity Ubuntu flaw that lets local attackers gain root privileges through a race condition in snap-confine. Qualys has disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score of 7.8), affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The flaw stems from a race condition introduced during a…
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Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension bug enabled silent WhatsApp data theft
Adobe patched CVE-2026-48294, a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could let attackers steal WhatsApp Web chats by luring users to a webpage. Guardio Labs researcher Shaked Biner disclosed HermeticReader, a vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that allowed any attacker-controlled webpage to silently steal a visitor’s WhatsApp chats, contacts, profile name,…
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Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment.The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The disclosure comes as…
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Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user’s WhatsApp data.The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardio Labs. It’s officially tracked as CVE-2026-48294 (CVSS score: 7.4), with the vulnerability First…
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OpenAI Models Escaped Test Environment and Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI models escaped from a controlled cyber test, exploited zero-day flaws and breached Hugging Face while searching its production database for test answers. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/openai-models-breached-hugging-face/
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New InfraTrust report reveals infrastructure flaws admins should patch first
Eclypsium has launched InfraTrust, a new infrastructure cybersecurity knowledge base and monthly InfraTrust Pulse report designed to help organizations prioritize vulnerabilities affecting infrastructure, firmware, networking, and edge devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-infratrust-report-reveals-infrastructure-flaws-admins-should-patch-first/
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Adobe Chrome extension flaw let sites access private WhatsApp chats
The Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome could be used to access conversations and data rendered in WhatsApp Web without any form of authentication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-chrome-extension-flaw-let-sites-access-private-whatsapp-chats/
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Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication
A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5), a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill’s “get_log_file” endpoint (“/api/w/{workspace}/jobs_u/get_log_file/{filename}”).”The filename parameter is concatenated into First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/07/hackers-exploit-windmill-flaw-to-read.html