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An issue discovered in IXP Data EasyInstall 6.6.14907.0 allows attackers to gain escalated privileges via static Cryptographic Key.

By Deeba Ahmed All a user needs to do is visit the official WinRAR website and install the latest version to thwart the attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: APTs Exploiting WinRAR 0day Flaw Despite Patch Availability

Terminal character injection in Mintty before 3.6.3 allows code execution via unescaped output to the terminal.

State-sponsored cyber espionage actors from Russia and China continue to target WinRAR users with various info-stealing and backdoor malware, as a patching lag plagues the software's footprint.

A Path Traversal vulnerability exists in PaperCut NG before 22.1.1 and PaperCut MF before 22.1.1. Under specific conditions, this could potentially allow an attacker to achieve read-only access to the server's filesystem.

This Metasploit module exploits an improper input validation issue in Atlassian Confluence, allowing arbitrary HTTP parameters to be translated into getter/setter sequences via the XWorks2 middleware and in turn allows for Java objects to be modified at run time. The exploit will create a new administrator user and upload a malicious plugins to get arbitrary code execution. All versions of Confluence between 8.0.0 through to 8.3.2, 8.4.0 through to 8.4.2, and 8.5.0 through to 8.5.1 are affected.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5746-01 - The OpenJDK 17 packages provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 Java Software Development Kit. This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 for Windows serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements.

An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as part of a cyber espionage operation that took place between August 2022 and May 2023. "The actors behind the attack used spear-phishing mails to target several victims, some were infected with Windows

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists within the Qumu Multicast Extension v2 before 2.0.63 for Windows. When a standard user triggers a repair of the software, a pop-up window opens with SYSTEM privileges. Standard users may use this to gain arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM.