Published on: 2025-04-20 19:09:55
Cisco has released security updates for a high-severity Webex vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain client-side remote code execution using malicious meeting invite links. Tracked as CVE-2025-20236, this security flaw was found in the Webex custom URL parser and can be exploited by tricking users into downloading arbitrary files, which lets threat actors execute arbitrary commands on systems running unpatched software in low complexity attacks. "This vulnerability is due
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The United States government has found itself on bit of a cancelation spree as of late, terminating critical programs with all the subtlety and care of a bull in a china shop. Late yesterday, we got word that the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database (CVE) was about to lose its funding. Considering how critical a role the CVE plays in naming and tracking the sort of security vulnerabilities that malware is always looking to exploit, this felt like a huge, unacceptable risk for the tech i
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CVE-2025-32433 Detail Received This CVE record has recently been published to the CVE List and has been included within the NVD dataset. Description Erlang/OTP is a set of libraries for the Erlang programming language. Prior to versions OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20, a SSH server may allow an attacker to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). By exploiting a flaw in SSH protocol message handling, a malicious actor could gain unauthorized access to affected systems an
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Why it matters: Articles on this site that cover software vulnerabilities typically include CVE codes, which tech companies worldwide use to identify cybersecurity threats. Funding for the program that manages the CVE database nearly expired this week, potentially endangering global cybersecurity coordination efforts. Although the crisis was averted at the last minute, the cybersecurity community has begun taking steps to avoid a repeat. The US Department of Homeland Security has extended fundi
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Federal funding has been restored for a crucial cybersecurity program used by Apple and other tech giants, in a last-minute U-turn. Security experts had described the original decision to remove funding as stupid, dangerous, and chaotic. However, the future of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program remains uncertain, despite its role in helping tech giants identify and fix security holes found in their products … The CVE security program We yesterday summarised the role of the
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critical pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years. Since its inception, the CVE Program has operated as a U.S. government-funded initiative, with oversight and management pro
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In an eleventh-hour scramble before a key contract was set to expire on Tuesday night, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency renewed its funding for the longtime software-vulnerability-tracking project known as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program. Managed by the nonprofit research-and-development group MITRE, the CVE Program is a linchpin of global cybersecurity—providing critical data and services for digital defense and research. The CVE Program is go
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fotograzia/Getty Images Over the weekend, security experts were beginning to panic. MITRE announced that the US government had not renewed funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database. MITRE VP Yosry Barsoum warned that the government contract support enabling MITRE "to develop, operate, and modernize CVE" would expire on April 16. That would mean, Barsoum continued, "multiple impacts to CVE, including deterioration of national vulnerability databases and advisories, too
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Apple released emergency security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were used in an "extremely sophisticated attack" against specific targets' iPhones. The two vulnerabilities are in CoreAudio (CVE-2025-31200) and RPAC (CVE-2025-31201), with both bugs impacting iOS, macOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS," reads an Apple security bul
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The Common Vulnerability and Exposures, or CVE, repository holds the answers to some of information security's most vital questions. Namely, which security issue are we talking about, exactly, and how does it work? The 25-year-old CVE program, an essential part of global cybersecurity, is cited in nearly any discussion or response to a computer security issue, including Ars posts. CVE was at real risk of closure after its contract was set to expire on April 16. The nonprofit MITRE runs CVE and
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR The US government has stopped funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, a standardized global system for identifying and tracking software vulnerabilities across platforms and devices, including Android. Without CVEs, Google’s monthly Android security bulletins may face delays, confusion, or reduced transparency. It’s unclear who, if anyone, will step in to maintain or replace the CVE system. Update, April 16, 2025 (11:01 AM ET):
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The government will continue funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. In a statement to The Verge, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) spokesperson Jared Auchey said it “executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services” last night. On Tuesday, MITRE, the govern
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CISA says the U.S. government has extended funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. "The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA," the U.S. cybersecurity agency told BleepingComputer. "Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners' and stakeholders' patience." The announcement follows a warning from M
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critical pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years. Since its inception, the CVE Program has operated as a U.S. government-funded initiative, with oversight and management pro
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The CVE security program used to track vulnerabilities in both hardware and software has had its federal funding removed with immediate effect. Apple is one of a number of tech giants who rely on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program to identify security flaws in their products. Update: CVE board members have responded by announcing a new non-profit known as the CVE Foundation, intended to continue the work – more at the end … The CVE security program The CVE program provides
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR The US government has stopped funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, a standardized global system for identifying and tracking software vulnerabilities across platforms and devices, including Android. Without CVEs, Google’s monthly Android security bulletins may face delays, confusion, or reduced transparency. It’s unclear who, if anyone, will step in to maintain or replace the CVE system. The United States government has abru
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MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum has warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs expires today, which could lead to widespread disruption across the global cybersecurity industry. CVE, the most critical of the two, is maintained by MITRE with funding from the U.S. National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CVE is crucial for providing accuracy, clarity, and shared
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A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is in danger of breaking down. The federally funded, non-profit research and development organization MITRE warned today that its contract to maintain the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program — which is traditionally funded each year by the Department of Homeland Security — expires on April 16. Tens of thousands of security flaws in
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In a stunning development that demolishes a cornerstone of cybersecurity defense, nonprofit R&D organization MITRE said that its contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to maintain the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, which organizes computer vulnerabilities, will expire at midnight on April 16. Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director of the Center for Securing the Homeland at MITRE, wrote in a missive to the CVE board, “On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, fundi
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Funding is about to run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program – a system used by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, and AMD to identify and track publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The program helps engineers identify how bad an exploit is and how to prioritize applying patches or other miti
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The PHP Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of a comprehensive security audit of the PHP source code (php/php-src), commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency. This initiative was organized in partnership with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) and executed by the esteemed security group Quarkslab. Audit Overview Conducted over a two-month period in 2024, the audit encompassed: Development of a threat model tailored to php-src Manual code reviews Dynamic testin
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Demystifying the #! (shebang): Kernel Adventures From my first experience creating a shell script, I learned about the shebang ( #! ), the special first line used to specify the interpreter for executing the script: #! /usr/bin/sh echo "Hello, World!" So that you can just invoke it with ./hello.sh and it will run with the specified interpreter, assuming the file has execute permissions. Of course, the shebang isn’t limited to shell scripts; you can use it for any script type: #! /usr/bin/
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 03:09:14
Fortinet has released security patches for a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. The company says Daniel Rozeboom of the FortiSwitch web UI development team discovered the vulnerability (CVE-2024-48887) internally. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this unverified FortiSwitch GUI password change security flaw (rated with a 9.8/10 severity score) in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction. Fo
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Microsoft says the RansomEXX ransomware gang has been exploiting a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System to gain SYSTEM privileges on victims' systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824, was patched during this month's Patch Tuesday and was only exploited in a limited number of attacks. CVE-2025-29824 is due to a use-after-free weakness that lets local attackers with low privileges gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don't require user i
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Cisco has warned admins to patch a critical Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) vulnerability, which exposes a built-in backdoor admin account now used in attacks. CSLU is a Windows app for managing licenses and linked products on-premises without connecting them to Cisco's cloud-based Smart Software Manager solution. Cisco patched this security flaw (CVE-2024-20439) in September, describing it as "an undocumented static user credential for an administrative account" that lets unauthenticated
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:35:33
Apple has released security updates that backport fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities that were exploited as zero-days to older versions of its operating systems. At the same time, the consumer tech giant released security updates for the latest stable iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, addressing numerous security flaws. Backporting zero-day fixes The first backport concerns CVE-2025-24200, a flaw discovered by Citizen Lab that was exploited by mobile forensic tools to disable 'USB Restricted
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Attackers are now targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the CrushFTP file transfer software using exploits based on publicly available proof-of-concept code. The security vulnerability (CVE-2025-2825) was reported by Outpost24, and it allows remote attackers to gain unauthenticated access to devices running unpatched CrushFTP v10 or v11 software. "Please take immediate action to patch ASAP. The bottom line of this vulnerability is that an exposed HTTP(S) port could lead t
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Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot loader for most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, while U-Boot and Barebox are commonly used in embedded and IoT devices. Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in filesystem parsers, command flaws, and a side-channel in cryptogra
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Mozilla has released Firefox 136.0.4 to patch a critical security vulnerability that can let attackers escape the web browser's sandbox on Windows systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-2857, this flaw is described as an "incorrect handle could lead to sandbox escapes" and was reported by Mozilla developer Andrew McCreight. The vulnerability impacts the latest Firefox standard and extended support releases (ESR) designed for organizations that require extended support for mass deployments. Mozilla fixed
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Dozens of vulnerabilities in products from three leading makers of solar inverters, Sungrow, Growatt, and SMA, could be exploited to control devices or execute code remotely on the vendor’s cloud platform. The potential impact of the security problems has been assessed as severe because they could be used in attacks that could at least influence grid stability, and affect user privacy. In a grimmer scenario, the vulnerabilities could be exploited to disrupt or damage power grids by creating an
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