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Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out
'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP Two "easy-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in the popular open-source AI framework Chainlit put major enterprises' cloud environments at risk of leaking data or even full takeover, according to cyber-threat exposure startup Zafran.…
The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…
Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit chain to completely disrupt cloud services and alter data.…
LLMs and 0-days - what could possibly go wrong? Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman.…
Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence Criminals exploiting a critical vulnerability in open source Apache ActiveMQ middleware are fixing the flaw that allowed them access, after establishing persistence on Linux servers.…
The open-source XDR/SIEM provider’s servers are in other botnets’ crosshairs too Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say – the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed.…
Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more Infosec in brief There's a problem of titanic proportions brewing for users of the Prometheus open source monitoring toolkit: hundreds of thousands of servers and exporters are exposed to the internet, creating significant security risks and leaving organizations vulnerable to attack.…
US agencies blasted 'unforgivable' SQLi flaws earlier this year Open-source enterprise network and application monitoring provider Zabbix is warning customers of a new critical vulnerability that could lead to full system compromise.…
Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem If you're running an application built using the Spring development framework, now is a good time to check it's fully updated – a new, critical-severity vulnerability has just been disclosed.…
The static analyzer uses Claude AI to identify vulns and suggest exploit code Researchers with Seattle-based Protect AI plan to release a free, open source tool that can find zero-day vulnerabilities in Python codebases with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI model.…
About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama – a popular open source project for running LLMs – can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of 1,000 vulnerable instances remain exposed to the internet.…
New infosec intelligence service aims to spread the word about recently discovered vulns in free code Securing open source software may soon become a little bit easier thanks to a new vulnerability info-sharing effort initiated by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).…
Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency.…
Lack of awareness still blamed for patching apathy despite it being among most infamous bugs of all time Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications are dependent on outdated libraries, leaving them open to exploitation.…
PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief The European Union’s Parliament and Council have reached an agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), setting the long-awaited security regulation on a path to final approval and adoption, along with new rules exempting open source software.…
We'd like to say don't panic … but maybe? 35 vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy remain unfixed more than two years after being found and disclosed to the open source project's maintainers, according to the person who reported them.…