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By Emma Zaballos

CVE-2024-53677 is a critical (9.5) remote code execution(RCE) vulnerability affecting popular open-source framework Apache Struts. Affected organizations are encouraged to upgrade to Struts 6.4.0 or greater and/or migrate to the new file upload mechanism. This vulnerability is actively being exploited and poses significant danger to enterprise organizations in both the public and private sectors.

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By Emma Zaballos

CyCognito examined an anonymized set of ecommerce assets collected from November 2023 to October 2024. While there is evidence of better security practices, some basic vulnerabilities and misconfigurations persist. Retailers need to take the time to make sure their ecommerce sites are keeping valuable PII and financial information safe.

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By Emma Zaballos

On November 18, 2024, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) disclosed two serious vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. Chained together, these vulnerabilities create the perfect conditions for pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE). CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect vulnerable assets and all customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of November 20th, 2024.

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By Emma Zaballos

CVE-2024-47575 (FortiJump) is a missing authentication vulnerability affecting critical functions in FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud versions. Approximately 60,000 assets are externally exposed worldwide. All CyCognito customers have access to an in-platform emerging threat announcement and methods to identify potentially vulnerable assets.

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By Emma Zaballos

On October 9th, 2024, five vulnerabilities affecting Palo Alto Networks Expedition before version 1.2.96 were disclosed by Palo Alto Networks. These issues include OS command injection, SQL injection, cleartext storage of sensitive data, and reflected XSS vulnerabilities. Though active exploitation has not been reported, CyCognito has released an active test and in-app notification covering these issues due to risks posed by their severity and ease of exploitation.

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By Emma Zaballos

CVE-2024-7594 is a severe unrestricted authentication issue affecting HashiCorp’s Vault’s SSH secrets engine, specifically Vault Community Edition versions 1.7.7-1.17.5 and Vault Enterprise versions 1.7.7-1.17.5, as well as 1.16.9 and 1.15.14. HashiCorp has released patches for CVE-2024-7594 and organizations can mitigate vulnerable instances by setting the SSH secrets engine valid_principals field to a non-empty value. CyCognito is investigating methods to deploy to actively detect this vulnerability, but more information about this issue is available to users in the CyCognito platform.

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By Emma Zaballos

CVE-2024-28987 is a critical (CVSS v3 score: 9.1) hardcoded credential vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) software. Organizations can patch this vulnerability by upgrading to version 12.8.3 HF2. CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect CVE-2024-28987 and customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of September 29th, 2024.

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