Overview On February 24, local time, researchers from Qualys released a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-8794) existing in OpenSMTPD. As part of the OpenBSD part, OpenSMTPD (also known as OpenBSD's mail server) is a free implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321. CVE-2020-8794 is an out-of-bounds...
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Google Chrome Releases Updates for Remediation of the Zero-day Vulnerability (CVE-2020-6418) Threat Alert
Overview On February 24, local time, Google released updates for fixing multiple vulnerabilities existing in the desktop Chrome browser, including the high-risk CVE-2020-6418 vulnerability that has been exploited by attackers in the wild. CVE-2020-6418 is a type confusion vulnerability in V8, which is Google Chrome's open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine....
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-3943) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, VMware released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-3943) in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter. VMware has evaluated the severity of this vulnerability to be in the critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.0. (more…)
Fastjson 1.2.62 and Earlier Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On February 19, National Vulnerability Database (NVD) released a JNDI injection vulnerability (CVE-2020-8840) in jackson-databind. However, gadget deserialization in jackson-databind also affects Fastjson. According to researchers from NSFOCUS, when the AutoType fucntion is enabled (disabled by default), this vulnerability affects Fastjson 1.2.62, allowing attackers to result in remote...
Jackson-databind Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8840) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On February 19, National Vulnerability Database (NVD) disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-8840) that resulted from JNDI injection in jackson-databind and assigned a CVSS score of 9.8. Affected versions of jackson-databind lack certain xbean-reflect/JNDI blocking, as demonstrated by org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.JndiConverter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...
Microsoft SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0618) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On February 12, Microsoft released a security update to announce the fix of the remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-0618) in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. SQL Server, developed by Microsoft, is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used in the world. (more…)
