Multiple Vulnerabilities in SonicOS

SonicWall has released a security advisory to address three high severity vulnerabilities and one medium severity vulnerability in SonicOS. SonicWall appliances are security appliances that provide virtual private network (VPN) and ‘next-gen’ firewall capabilities. Read more… Source: NHS Digital Sign Read More …

US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity firm for firewall hacks targeting critical infrastructure

The U.S. sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees for exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Sophos firewalls to target U.S. organizations. On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department said Guan Tianfeng, an employee of Sichuan Silence, used the Read More …

Zyxel Releases Advisory for Exploited Vulnerability CVE-2024-11667

Zyxel has released a security advisory addressing recent targeting of its firewall products. Attackers have been observed exploiting vulnerabilities patched in September (see Cyber Alert CC-4541) and a previously undisclosed high severity vulnerability. CVE-2024-11667 is a path traversal vulnerability and Read More …

SonicWall Releases Security Updates for SMA100 NetExtender for Windows (CVE-2024-29014)

SonicWall has released a security update addressing a vulnerability in the Windows (32 and 64-bit) versions of SonicWall SMA100 NetExtender. SMA100 NetExtender is a virtual private network (VPN) client. This vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29014, may allow an attacker to execute Read More …

Pakistan tests secret China-like ‘firewall’ to tighten online surveillance

Pakistan’s government has deployed Chinese technology to build what some senior officials familiar with the project are calling a new, national internet “firewall” that will allow authorities to monitor online traffic and regulate the use of popular apps with greater Read More …

Palo Alto Releases Critical Security Bulletin for Firewall Devices

Palo Alto has issued a critical severity security bulletin for an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability affecting the management interface for firewall devices. The vulnerability is still under investigation by Palo Alto but has not yet received a CVE designation. Read More …

CVE-2024-3400: Critical Command Injection Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

On Friday, April 12, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on CVE-2024-3400, a CVSS 10 zero-day vulnerability in several versions of PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on the company’s firewalls. According to the vendor advisory, if conditions for exploitability Read More …

“Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting Palo Alto Networks firewall 0-day

Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday. The vulnerability, which has been under active exploitation for at least two weeks now, allows Read More …

FortiOS/FortiProxy – Proxy mode with deep inspection – Stack-based buffer overflow

A stack-based overflow vulnerability [CWE-124] in FortiOS & FortiProxy may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or command via crafted packets reaching proxy policies or firewall policies with proxy mode alongside SSL deep packet inspection. Workaround: Disable deep Read More …