Critical GitLab Bug Under Exploit Enables Account Takeover, CISA Warns
Patch now: Cyberattackers are exploiting CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS 10) to take over and lock users out of GitLab accounts, steal source code, and more.
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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.
Patch now: Cyberattackers are exploiting CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS 10) to take over and lock users out of GitLab accounts, steal source code, and more.
HPE Aruba Networking (formerly Aruba Networks) has released security updates to address critical flaws impacting ArubaOS that could result in remote code execution (RCE) on affected systems
A never-before-seen botnet called Goldoon has been observed targeting D-Link routers with a nearly decade-old critical security flaw with the goal of using the compromised devices for further attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical flaw impacting GitLab to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, owing to active exploitation in the wild
The CVE-2024-27322 security vulnerability in R's deserialization process gives attackers a way to execute arbitrary code in target environments via specially crafted files.
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in code execution when loaded and referenced