OpenSSL Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1971) Threat Alert

Overview On December 8, 2020, local time, OpenSSL released a security advisory disclosing a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability (CVE-2020-1971), rating the vulnerability as High-risk. The vulnerability exists in the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function in OpenSSL. GENERAL_NAME_cmp compares different instances of a GENERAL_NAME to see if they are equal or not. When both...

Struts2 S2-061 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-17530) Threat Alert

Overview On December 8, 2020, Struts released a security bulletin disclosing a potential remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-17530) in S2-061. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation. This results in two forced Object Graph Navigation Library (OGNL) evaluations when the original user input is calculated. When the OGNL expression is...

Citrix SD-WAN Vulnerabilities Threat Alert

Overview Recently, Citrix SD-WAN released a security update to address three vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-8271, CVE-2020-8272, CVE-2020-8273). These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to SD-WAN Center to perform arbitrary code execution as root. At present, there exist detailed analysis of relevant vulnerabilities and the proof of concept (POC) concerning...

Multiple Cisco Vulnerabilities Threat Alert-1

Overview On November 18, 2020 (local time), Cisco released security advisories fixing vulnerabilities in multiple products. These vulnerabilities include three high-risk ones: CVE-2020-3531, CVE-2020-3586, and CVE-2020-3470. Reference link: https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x (mais…)