Summary: Amidst the global pandemic time period, DHS CISA and FBI share list of top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities on May 12,2020. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), urges organizations in the public and private sector to apply necessary updates in order to … Continue reading “Identify and Remediate Most Exploited Vulnerabilities in last 5 years using VMDR”
Tag: Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player Use After Free Vulnerability: APSB18-42
A publicly exploited use after free vulnerability leading to arbitrary code execution was discovered in the Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has addressed this vulnerability in APSB18-42, by releasing the latest version – 32.0.0.101. An additional insecure library loading vulnerability, which leads with privilege escalation via DLL hijacking attacks was also remediated via this update. MITRE has assigned CVE-2018-15982 … Continue reading “Adobe Flash Player Use After Free Vulnerability: APSB18-42”
Adobe Flash Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability: CVE-2018-5002
A stack overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Adobe’s Flash Player. CVE-2018-5002 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. The issue occurs due to improper execution of try-catch statement with a static initializer. It affects Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.171 and earlier versions. Adobe has addressed this issue in APSB18-19 by releasing version 30.0.0.113. Microsoft has released ADV180014 … Continue reading “Adobe Flash Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability: CVE-2018-5002”
Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Vulnerability: CVE-2018-4878
A Zero Day vulnerability in Adobe Flash player has been discovered in the wild. The bug is a use after free vulnerability in the Adobe Flash MediaPlayer DRM management API, it can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. CVE-2018-4878 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. The affected versions are Adobe Flash Player ActiveX … Continue reading “Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Vulnerability: CVE-2018-4878”