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Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices," Mandiant said in an

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6574-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6574-1 - Takeshi Kaneko discovered that Go did not properly handle comments and special tags in the script context of html/template module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject Javascript code and perform a cross site scripting attack. This issue only affected Go 1.20 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. It was discovered that Go did not properly validate the "//go:cgo_" directives during compilation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code during compile time.

Act now! Ivanti vulnerabilities are being actively exploited

Several international security agencies are echoing a warning by Ivanti about actively exploited vulnerabilities in its VPN solution.

New PoC Exploit for Apache OfBiz Vulnerability Poses Risk to ERP Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have developed a proof-of-concept (PoC) code that exploits a recently disclosed critical flaw in the Apache OfBiz open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to execute a memory-resident payload. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-51467 (CVSS score: 9.8), a bypass for another severe shortcoming in the same software (

CVE-2024-20709: Adobe Systems Incorporated: CVE-2024-20709 Javascript Implementation PDF Vulnerability

**What is the version information for this release?** Microsoft Edge Channel Microsoft Edge Version Based on Chromium Version Date Released Stable 120.0.2336.0 120.0.6099.216/217 1/11/2024

Mandiant's X Account Was Hacked Using Brute-Force Attack

The compromise of Mandiant's X (formerly Twitter) account last week was likely the result of a "brute-force password attack," attributing the hack to a drainer-as-a-service (DaaS) group. "Normally, [two-factor authentication] would have mitigated this, but due to some team transitions and a change in X's 2FA policy, we were not adequately protected," the threat intelligence firm said

Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure

A pair of zero-day flaws identified in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure have been chained by suspected China-linked nation-state actors to breach less than 10 customers. Cybersecurity firm Volexity, which identified the activity on the network of one of its customers in the second week of December 2023, attributed it to a hacking group it tracks under the name UTA0178

Android DeviceVersionFragment.java Privilege Escalation

Proof of concept exploit for a privilege escalation issue in Android. In checkDebuggingDisallowed of DeviceVersionFragment.java, there is a possible way to access adb before SUW completion due to an insecure default value. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6038-2

Ubuntu Security Notice 6038-2 - USN-6038-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Go 1.18. This update provides the corresponding updates for Go 1.13 and Go 1.16. CVE-2022-29526 and CVE-2022-30630 only affected Go 1.16. It was discovered that the Go net/http module incorrectly handled Transfer-Encoding headers in the HTTP/1 client. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling attack.

OX App Suite 7.10.6 Access Control / Cross Site Scripting

OX App Suite version 7.10.6-rev51 suffers from an access control vulnerability. Version 7.10.6-rev34 suffers from multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities.