Cybersecurity Announcements

WordPress has released version 6.0.2.  This security and maintenance release contains patches for 3 vulnerabilities, including a high severity SQL Injection vulnerability in the Links functionality (CVSS Score of 8.0), as well as two Medium Severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

Atlassian has published a security advisory warning Bitbucket Server and Data Center users of a critical security flaw that allows remote attackers with access to public repositories or read access to private Bitbucket repositories to execute arbitrary code.

Microsoft released announcements for known vulnerabilities addressed in their Tuesday Patch release. Two are considered Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, meaning an attacker can exploit the system vulnerabilities remotely.

Django, an open-source Python-based web framework, has detected a SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-34265) in some recent versions.

Qualys researchers discovered a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) in polkit’s pkexec, a program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.

Four critical vulnerabilities were discovered in Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), software used by sequencing instruments to aid in genetic analysis.

About the Event A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected machines. The flaw, dubbed “Follina”, exists due to improper validation of …

Microsoft released a patch as part of April 2022’s Patch Tuesday for a Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26809). This vulnerability impacts most Windows Server and Desktop versions, including Windows 7 and Windows 11.

Spring announced a remote code execution vulnerability in Spring Core, aka Spring4Shell. Details and actions here.