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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.
Cyberattackers could exploit CVE-2023-20238 to carry out a variety of nefarious deeds, from data theft and code execution to phishing, fraud, and DoS.
Cisco has released security fixes to address multiple security flaws, including a critical bug, that could be exploited by a threat actor to take control of an affected system or cause a denial-of service (DoS) condition
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that multiple nation-state actors are exploiting security flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to gain unauthorized access and establish persistence on compromised systems
Apple on Thursday released emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to address two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus mercenary spyware
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) a critical-severity issue tracked as CVE-2023-33246 that affects Apache's RocketMQ distributed messaging and streaming platform. [...]
Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in Apache SuperSet that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems
Google has rolled out monthly security patches for Android to address a number of flaws, including a zero-day bug that it said may have been exploited in the wild
Nine security flaws have been disclosed in electric power management products made by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers