Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT discovered a critical security bulletin released by Microsoft to disclose a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-36934) in Windows. A privilege escalation vulnerability exists because of overly permissive Access Control Lists (ACLs) on multiple system files (including the Security Account Manager (SAM) database). When a built-in administrator account...
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Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-33909) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT discovered that the Qualys research team disclosed a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-33909, aka Sequoia) in the filesystem layer in the Linux kernel. It is a size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the seq_file interface in the Linux kernel. fs/seq_file.c's improper restriction of the seq buffer allocation...
WebLogic Multiple High-Risk Vulnerabilities Threat Alert
Overview On July 21, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the April 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 342 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. Among these vulnerabilities, three severe ones are easy to exploit to affect WebLogic. Users are advised to take measures without delay to protect against the...
Oracle July 2021 Critical Patch Update for All Product Families
Overview On July 21, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the July 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 342 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. This CPU involves multiple commonly used products, such as Oracle Database Server, Oracle Java SE, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle MySQL, and Oracle Communications. Oracle strongly...
Microsoft’s July 2021 Security Updates Fix Multiple Products’ High-Risk Vulnerabilities
Overview According to NSFOCUS CERT's monitoring, Microsoft released July 2021 Security Updates on July 14 to fix 117 vulnerabilities, including high-risk remote code execution and privilege escalation, in widely used products like Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Visual Studio, and SharePoint Server. In the vulnerabilities fixed by this month's security...
SolarWinds Serv-U Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-35211) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT, through ongoing monitoring, found that SolarWinds released a security advisory fixing a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-35211). Microsoft reported to SolarWinds that they had discovered that the vulnerability was exploited in the wild and provided a proof of concept of the exploit. Unauthenticated, remote attackers could...
