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Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in WordPress Core

RIPS Technologies (www. www.ripstech.com/) published an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the WordPress core on 26 June 2018. Any WordPress version including the current version is affected. After an attacker gains the privileges to edit and delete media files, the vulnerability can be used to escalate privileges attained through the...

NSFOCUS Weekly Cybersecurity Report

(Report ID: 201824) Internet Threat Status CVE Statistics Last week we saw a slight increase in the total entries of CVE IDs.   Threat Review New 'Lazy FP State Restore' Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs Date: 06-13-2018 Description: Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel...

Zip Slip Vulnerability Advisory

On 5th June 2018 Snyk Security team disclosed a Zip Slip vulnerability, which could result in potential command execution using a specially crafted archive that holds directory traversal filenames . Reference: https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability Description Attackers could use a specially crafted archive holding directory traversal filenames (e.g. ../../evil.sh) to trigger this vulnerability....

Cisco IOS XE AAA RCE Vulnerability

Cisco released an advisory on 6th June for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0315) in its Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Login Authentication service. It could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device or cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service condition....

Drupal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Analysis

Overview Drupal released a security advisory on 28 March 2018 to disclose a remote execution code (RCE) vulnerability in the Drupal core, sa-core-2018-002 (CVE-2018-7600). Soon, two more security advisories were also published within a month, including a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability and a critical code execution vulnerability — sa-core-2018-004 (CVE-2018-7602)....

Code Execution Vulnerability in Red Hat DHCP Client Script

  Red Hat released a security advisory on May 15 for fixing a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-1111)in the DHCP Client. An attacker on local network could use a malicious DHCP server or a spoofed DHCP response to execute arbitrary command with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager which is configured to...