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A flaw is a defect in software, hardware, system design, or configuration that causes unintended behavior. In security reporting, the term usually means a weakness that could violate confidentiality, integrity, or availability when reached through a particular interface, input, privilege, or operating condition. Not every flaw is exploitable, and exploitability depends on factors such as exposure, authentication requirements, affected versions, and available mitigations.
Flaws matter because they can create attack paths in applications, operating systems, devices, APIs, or administrative settings. Security teams assess their severity and exposure, prioritize remediation, apply patches or configuration changes, and use isolation or access controls when immediate fixes are unavailable. Code review, testing, vulnerability scanning, and monitoring can reveal flaws across the development and operational lifecycle. Reports should distinguish a confirmed vulnerability from a theoretical defect and provide enough technical detail to support validation without unnecessarily enabling exploitation.
Win32k and Visual Studio falws are under attack Two flaws in Microsoft software are under attack on systems that haven't been patched by admins.…
Progress has issued a second patch for additional SQL flaws that are distinct from the zero-day that Cl0p ransomware gang is exploiting.
Progress Software warned customers today of newly found critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in its MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer (MFT) solution that can let attackers steal information from customers' databases. [...]
Over that time, the group carried multiple tests to see if the exploit worked and to identify potential victims. It was like "turning the doorknob" to check for access, a researcher says.
Numen Cyber said exploiting the vulnerability does not require novel techniques
Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy Google says it has fixed a flaw that allowed a scammer to impersonate delivery service UPS on Gmail, after the data-hoarding web behemoth labeled the phony email as authentic.…
Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published a joint advisory regarding the active exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer application to drop ransomware
VMware has released security updates to fix a trio of flaws in Aria Operations for Networks that could result in information disclosure and remote code execution
Enterprise security company Barracuda is now urging customers who were impacted by a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to immediately replace them
Honda's e-commerce platform for power equipment, marine, lawn & garden, was vulnerable to unauthorized access by anyone due to API flaws that allow password reset for any account. [...]
Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December. [...]
Google has released a security update for Chrome web browser to address the third zero-day vulnerability that hackers exploited this year. [...]
Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild
Boots, BA, the BBC and more have data compromised
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday placed two recently disclosed flaws in Zyxel firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation
The vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) can grant escalated privileges and unauthorized access
GIGABYTE has released firmware updates to fix security vulnerabilities in over 270 motherboards that could be exploited to install malware. [...]
Microsoft has officially linked the ongoing active exploitation of a critical flaw in the Progress Software MOVEit Transfer application to a threat actor it tracks as Lace Tempest