Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Two vulnerabilities, assigned CVE-2019-9629 and CVE-2019-9630, were uncovered in Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager (NXRM) — an open-source governance platform used by DevOps professionals.

Kubernetes announced the discovery of CVE-2019-11246, a high-severity vulnerability affecting the command-line interface kubectl, during an ongoing third-party security audit.

Dell urges users to update the vulnerable SupportAssist tool built into its business and home machines. The privilege escalation vulnerability could allow hackers control over Dell computers running Windows, if left unpatched.

Oracle published an out-of-band security alert advisory on CVE-2019-2729, a zero-day deserialization vulnerability via XMLDecoder in Oracle WebLogic Server Web Services.

A Netflix researcher uncovered four critical vulnerabilities — CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-5599, and CVE-2019-11479 — within the TCP implementations on Linux and FreeBSD kernels.

Two hacking groups have been spotted attacking vulnerable Exim email servers, trying to exploit CVE-2019-10149. One group uses a public internet server, and another a server on the dark web.

A security researcher, going by the handle SandboxEscaper, published an exploit code for a zero-day vulnerability in Windows' Task Scheduler utility. Here's what you need to know.

Almost a million systems are reportedly vulnerable to BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708), a critical vulnerability in remote desktop services. Here are some best practices that can help defend against threats that may exploit it.

Researchers reported new side-channel attacks — ZombieLoad, Fallout, and Rogue In-Flight Data Load (RIDL) — that can leak data being processed by vulnerable Intel processors. Here's what you need to know.