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CVE is a global system of standardized identifiers for publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Each record, typically written as CVE-YYYY-NNNN, gives a vulnerability a stable reference and usually includes a description, affected products or versions, and links to advisories or fixes. The CVE Program coordinates the assignment and publication of records through authorized organizations, allowing researchers, vendors, security tools, and defenders to discuss the same flaw without relying on different names.
Practitioners use CVE identifiers to match vulnerabilities across asset inventories, scanners, patch advisories, and threat-intelligence reports. A CVE is an identity, not a severity score or proof that a system is exploitable: prioritization should also consider the affected configuration, exposure, available mitigations, exploit activity, and business impact. Delays in identifying vulnerable versions can leave internet-facing services or embedded components exposed, while incomplete product-to-CVE mapping can cause missed remediation. Security teams should verify the affected versions and vendor guidance before patching or applying workarounds.
Palo Alto Networks has shared more details of a critical security flaw impacting PAN-OS that has come under active exploitation in the wild by malicious actors
Approximately 22,500 exposed Palo Alto GlobalProtect firewall devices are likely vulnerable to the CVE-2024-3400 flaw, a critical command injection vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks since at least March 26, 2024. [...]
The attacks exploit CVE-2023-22518, a critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server
Threat actors are exploiting unpatched Atlassian servers to deploy a Linux variant of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS devices to deliver ScreenConnect and Metasploit Powerfun payloads
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-31497 in PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 could potentially allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures to recover the private key used for their generation. [...]
The maintainers of the PuTTY Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet client are alerting users of a critical vulnerability impacting versions from 0.68 through 0.80 that could be exploited to achieve full recovery of NIST P-521 (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) private keys
A security flaw impacting the Lighttpd web server used in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) has remained unpatched by device vendors like Intel and Lenovo, new findings from Binarly reveal
Designated CVE-2024-3400 and with a CVSS score of 10.0, the flaw enables unauthorized actors to execute arbitrary code on affected firewalls
Palo Alto Networks has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation in the wild