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View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Festo Equipment: Controller CECC-S,-LK,-D Family Firmware Vulnerabilities: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere, Untrusted Pointer Dereference, NULL Pointer Dereference, Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Out-of-bounds Write, Improper Privilege Management, Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'), Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime, Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions, Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm, Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password, Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort, Improper Access Control, Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Improper Input Validation, Buffer Over-read, Use of Insufficiently Random Values, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path ...

A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor called UNC5174, according to NVISO Labs. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), a local privilege escalation bug affecting the following versions - VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x and 5.x VMware

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to

Cybersecurity never stops—and neither do hackers. While you wrapped up last week, new attacks were already underway. From hidden software bugs to massive DDoS attacks and new ransomware tricks, this week’s roundup gives you the biggest security moves to know. Whether you’re protecting key systems or locking down cloud apps, these are the updates you need before making your next security

The llama-index-core package, up to version 0.12.44, contains a vulnerability in the `get_cache_dir()` function where a predictable, hardcoded directory path `/tmp/llama_index` is used on Linux systems without proper security controls. This vulnerability allows attackers on multi-user systems to steal proprietary models, poison cached embeddings, or conduct symlink attacks. The issue affects all Linux deployments where multiple users share the same system. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-379, CWE-377, and CWE-367, indicating insecure temporary file creation and potential race conditions.

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed that threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws impacting Cisco firewalls as part of zero-day attacks to deliver previously undocumented malware families like RayInitiator and LINE VIPER. "The RayInitiator and LINE VIPER malware represent a significant evolution on that used in the previous campaign, both in

The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking the activity under the name DeceptiveDevelopment, said the campaign targets software developers across all operating systems, Windows,

China-backed UNC5221 targets US legal and tech firms by deploying BRICKSTORM malware on neglected VMware and Linux/BSD appliances, Google's Mandiant reports.

Companies in the legal services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and technology sectors in the U.S. have been targeted by a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group to deliver a known backdoor referred to as BRICKSTORM. The activity, attributed to UNC5221 and closely related, suspected China-nexus threat clusters, is designed to facilitate

Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-51591 (CVSS score: 6.5), which refers to a case of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows attackers to