The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) on Thursday added three security flaws to its Identified Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog primarily based on proof of energetic exploitation within the wild.
The vulnerabilities are as follows –
- CVE-2023-36584 (CVSS rating: 5.4) – Microsoft Home windows Mark-of-the-Internet (MotW) Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-1671 (CVSS rating: 9.8) – Sophos Internet Equipment Command Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-2551 (CVSS rating: 8.8) – Oracle Fusion Middleware Unspecified Vulnerability
CVE-2023-1671 pertains to a important pre-auth command injection vulnerability that enables for the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2023-2551 is a flaw within the WLS Core Parts that enables an unauthenticated attacker with community entry to compromise the WebLogic Server.
There are presently no public stories documenting in-the-wild assaults leveraging the 2 flaws.
However, the addition of CVE-2023-36584 to the KEV catalog is predicated on a report from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 earlier this week, which detailed spear-phishing assaults mounted by pro-Russian APT group referred to as Storm-0978 (aka RomCom or Void Rabisu) concentrating on teams supporting Ukraine’s admission into NATO in July 2023.
CVE-2023-36584, patched by Microsoft as a part of October 2023 security updates, is claimed to have been used alongside CVE-2023-36884, a Home windows distant code execution vulnerability addressed in July, in an exploit chain to ship PEAPOD, an up to date model of RomCom RAT.
In mild of energetic exploitation, federal companies are really helpful to use the fixes by December 7, 2023, to safe their networks in opposition to potential threats.
Fortinet Discloses Essential Command Injection Bug in FortiSIEM
The event comes as Fortinet is alerting prospects of a important command injection vulnerability in FortiSIEM report server (CVE-2023-36553, CVSS rating: 9.3) that may very well be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary instructions.
CVE-2023-36553 has been described as a variant of CVE-2023-34992 (CVSS rating: 9.7), an identical flaw in the identical product that was remediated by Fortinet in early October 2023.
“An improper neutralization of particular components utilized in an OS command vulnerability [CWE-78] in FortiSIEM report server could enable a distant unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized instructions by way of crafted API requests,” the corporate mentioned in an advisory this week.
The vulnerability, which impacts FortiSIEM variations 4.7, 4.9, 4.10, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4, has been fastened in variations 7.1.0, 7.0.1, 6.7.6, 6.6.4, 6.5.2, 6.4.3, or later.
