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  2. XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 2023 MOVEit data breach - Wikipedia

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    According to cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the MOVEit vulnerability began being used on May 27, 2023. [1]On May 31 Progress Software released a patch for the vulnerability and stated the vulnerability “could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment”.

  4. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - Wikipedia

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    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a dictionary of common names (i.e., CVE Identifiers) for publicly known information security vulnerabilities. CVE's common identifiers make it easier to share data across separate network security databases and tools, and provide a baseline for evaluating the coverage of an organization's security ...

  5. Meltdown (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Log4Shell - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach - Wikipedia

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    A global wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in January 2021 after four zero-day exploits were discovered in on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers, administrator privileges on the server, and access to connected devices on the same network.

  8. Category:Computer security exploits - Wikipedia

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    Redirects from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (74 P) T. Transient execution ... Pages in category "Computer security exploits" The following 155 pages are in ...

  9. Transient execution CPU vulnerability - Wikipedia

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    Transient execution CPU vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities in which instructions, most often optimized using speculative execution, are executed temporarily by a microprocessor, without committing their results due to a misprediction or error, resulting in leaking secret data to an unauthorized party.