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Emerging Threat: SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer CVE-2025-31324
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 28, 2025
On April 24, 2025, SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, a critical vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) in the Metadata Uploader of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.50, which is actively exploited. SAP released a patch, with details limited to customers, alongside other mitigation options. CyCognito has deployed detection tests and provides customers with asset lists to assess and validate remediation efforts.
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Emerging Threat: Ivanti CVE-2025-22457
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 7, 2025
CVE-2025-22457 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (CVSS 9.0) in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways, enabling unauthenticated remote code execution via a crafted X-Forwarded-For header. It has been actively exploited by espionage group UNC5221 and is listed in CISA’s KEV catalog. Patches are available for most affected products, but legacy Pulse Connect Secure devices require migration, and customers are advised to monitor for signs of compromise.
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Emerging Threat: Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
December 19, 2024
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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Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 & CVE-2024-9474
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 20, 2024
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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Emerging Security Issue: Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2024-23113
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 16, 2024
CVE-2024-23113 is a critical (9.8) Fortinet remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting a variety of Fortinet products and versions. CyCognito is investigating active tests for CVE-2024-9463. Users can check if their assets are potentially vulnerable using provided filters in the CyCognito platform.
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