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The issue has been given the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures number CVE-2024-3094 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score. [ 5 ] While xz is commonly present in most Linux distributions , at the time of discovery the backdoored version had not yet been widely deployed to production systems, but was present in ...
Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security subsystem is also affected by this bug. [4]The Downfall vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Daniel Moghimi, who publicly released information about the vulnerability in August 2023, after a year-long embargo period.
Shellshock, also known as Bashdoor, [1] is a family of security bugs [2] in the Unix Bash shell, the first of which was disclosed on 24 September 2014.Shellshock could enable an attacker to cause Bash to execute arbitrary commands and gain unauthorized access [3] to many Internet-facing services, such as web servers, that use Bash to process requests.
Meltdown exploits a race condition, inherent in the design of many modern CPUs.This occurs between memory access and privilege checking during instruction processing. . Additionally, combined with a cache side-channel attack, this vulnerability allows a process to bypass the normal privilege checks that isolate the exploit process from accessing data belonging to the operating system and other ...
“Verify that this isn’t fake news and that the company you are utilizing truly was breached,” said Damir J. Brescic, chief information security officer at Inversion6, a cybersecurity risk ...
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a zero-day vulnerability reported in November 2021 in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. [2] [3] The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on 24 November 2021.
Thunderspy is a type of security vulnerability, based on the Intel Thunderbolt 3 port, first reported publicly on 10 May 2020, that can result in an evil maid (i.e., attacker of an unattended device) attack gaining full access to a computer's information in about five minutes, and may affect millions of Apple, Linux and Windows computers, as well as any computers manufactured before 2019, and ...
In India, the Reserve Bank of India said that only 10 banks and NBFCs were affected by the outage; [152] [153] few banks use CrowdStrike tools and many banks' critical systems do not run on the cloud. NSE, BSE, [153] and India's largest bank, State Bank of India, said they were unaffected. [154] In Brazil, Bradesco Bank confirmed it was ...