Summary: On January 25, 2022, Qualys disclosed a PwnKit privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) that affects the pkexec program installed by default on all major Linux distributions. Pkexec is a component of Polkit (formerly PolicyKit), which… More »
Summary: On January 11, 2022, Microsoft released patches for critical and important remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that could be appealing to threat actors. There are no reports of active exploitation as of this publication,… More »
Following on from the Log4j advisories sent 13/12 and 15/12, Apache has released version 2.17.0 of Log4j after discovering issues with their previous release, 2.16. Summary: Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 did not protect from… More »
Summary Our security partners are investigating multiple proof-of-concept exploits for CVE-2021-42287, a privilege escalation vulnerability associated with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). This vulnerability combined with a Security Account Manager (SAM) spoofing security bypass… More »
As posted previously there have been a number of vulnerabilities to Log4j services based on an update to CVE-2021-44228 – Vulnerability, has now had major developments regarding the Log4j vulnerability since our last advisory. This update… More »
Summary In the wake of the Log4Shell vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228, our support partner JISC have been monitoring network connectivity and looking for proactive ways to prevent exploitation. It is imperative to take into consideration the entire infrastructure when responding… More »
Summary This is an authentication bypass vulnerability in some specific application URLs that allows an attacker to gain access to an organisation’s data on the ServiceDesk Plus application. By manipulating one of these URLs from… More »
Summary On 22/11, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri publicly disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability for “Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege”, which Microsoft had attempted to patch in November 2021, under CVE-2021-41379. The patch released by Microsoft… More »
update from our previous post – Microsoft vulnerability - Remote Code Execution (CVE-2021-40444) Summary On 21/11, two weeks after the patch for CVE-2021-42321 was released in MS Patch Tuesday, open-source reporting disclosed that a proof-of-concept exploit… More »
