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Cybersecurity News
Cybersecurity Announcement: WordPress Releases Patch for High Severity SQL Injection Vulnerability
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.
Cybersecurity Announcement: Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2022-36804)
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.
Cybersecurity Announcement: Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool and Point-to-Point Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-34713) and (CVE-2022-30133)
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.
Cybersecurity Announcement: Django SQL injection vulnerability
Django, an open-source Python-based web framework, has detected a SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-34265) in some recent versions.
Cybersecurity Announcement: Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034 PwnKit)
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.
Cybersecurity Announcement: Critical Illumina vulnerabilities (multiple CVEs)
Four critical vulnerabilities were discovered in Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), software used by sequencing instruments to aid in genetic analysis.
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Cybersecurity Announcement: Microsoft “Follina” zero-day in the wild (CVE-2022-30190)
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 …
Cybersecurity Announcement: Microsoft Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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.