06 – 22 June 2025 It’s Friday again, which for some people means throwing a party to let the stress out after a long week at work. Not for engineers responsible for securing SUSE Linux systems, though. SUSE is a distribution loved by many desktop …
09 – 15 June 2025 After our last CVE of the Week post exploring a critical vulnerability in the open source landscape, we are back again in the Microsoft ecosystem, as it’s just past Patch Tuesday, which keeps on giving (and more importantly, fixing) weaknesses …
It’s rare that a week goes by without a critical vulnerability being discovered and this time is no exception.
This critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-49113, has a 9.9 CVSS base score, almost reaching a straight 10/10. The weakness is a prime example of improper input validation, allowing any authenticated user to trivially exploit four PHP endpoints using the _from parameter: program, actions, settings, and upload.php are all vulnerable to object deserialization. This allows for full system compromise through remote code execution, affecting all three pillars of the CIA triad.
While the fact that unauthenticated users can’t reach the affected endpoints could give some relief, administrators must still consider insider threats. Furthermore, there are self-registration Roundcube plugins for various mail server backends, which would allow anyone to register an account and exploit the server.
Also, if you’ve been putting off upgrading for a long time, this attack might be chained with the various XSS issues previously disclosed in Roundcube, like CVE-2024-37383, which allows injecting JS code via SVG animate attributes. This one has a publicly available PoC, which only requires the recipient to click inside a maliciously crafted email’s body to execute the payload, meaning it could lead to unauthenticated RCE.
Luckily, Roundcube developers were quick to fix the validation logic in versions 1.6.11 and 1.5.10, adding an is_simple_string() function to the input handler code, which discards any malicious characters, rendering the exploits useless.
As always, the best way to stay secure is updating as quickly as possible, but if that’s not possible, you can alternatively utilize a WAF and make sure it is configured to reject requests with suspicious content. We also recommend inspecting the access logs for traces of successful exploitation.
Official advisory: https://roundcube.net/news/2025/06/01/security-updates-1.6.11-and-1.5.10
is_simple_string() patch: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/0376f69e958a8fef7f6f09e352c541b4e7729c4d
XSS CVE from last year: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2024-37383
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19 – 15 May 2025 Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed in VCF by Gustavo Bonito of the NATO Cyber Security Centre. From among these, our #CVEOfTheWeek is CVE-2025-41229. This is a Directory Traversal vulnerability, which might allow a malicious actor with network access to …
12 – 18 May 2025 A critical elevation of privilege vulnerability has been found in Azure DevOps, published on May 8, 2025, and updated with more details 2 days later on May 10, 2025. It has a CVSS score of 10.0! It’s not often that …
The security weakness is found in OpenCTI’s web-hook functionality. As outlined in the advisory, this feature enables users to tailor messages transmitted through web-hooks. It operates using JavaScript, which users can input into a web-hook template field.
The primary concern is that a malicious user could exploit this mechanism to execute commands within the hosting environment where OpenCTI runs. Although a protective layer has been implemented to block external modules in JavaScript code used for web-hooks, these safeguards can still be circumvented.
Furthermore, OpenCTI’s container-based deployments poses a security risk, as attackers could exploit web-hook JavaScript to access sensitive environment variables. Successful exploitation could lead to a wide range of malicious activities, including data breaches, system compromise, and lateral movement within the affected network.
The affected version of OpenCTI Platform is 6.4.8 and the patched version, which resolves this vulnerability, is 6.4.11.
Users of the OpenCTI Platform are strongly advised to upgrade OpenCTI Platform instance to version 6.4.11 or later to mitigate the risk posed by CVE-2025-24977.
Recommended Action:
Official advisory: https://github.com/OpenCTI-Platform/opencti/security/advisories/GHSA-mf88-g2wq-p7qm
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They are committed to supporting professional initiatives that aim to raise cybersecurity awareness and maturity—both for individuals and organizations. They regularly contribute to the community through knowledge sharing, education, and outreach, helping to build a safer digital future for all.
The cybersecurity world runs on shared language. We don’t often talk about it in those terms—but that’s exactly what the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) system is. A global taxonomy of flaws. A universal index of weakness. The quiet backbone that lets defenders coordinate responses …
This week’s #CVEofTheWeek is about an actively exploited critical Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto PAN-OS. PAN-OS is the software that runs all Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW). The high-level properties of this CVE are very familiar to last year’s CVE-2024-0012.
The vulnerability was found and reported by Adam Kues from the Assetnote Security Research Team, who also published a detailed blog post about the vulnerability after the patch was released for the product.
Palo Alto Networks released a security bulletin on February 12 about the vulnerability as “CVE-2024-0108 PAN-OS”, where they published the warning and listed the affected versions and fixes.
The CVE was added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on the 18th of February.
This issue is categorized as Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) – The CVSSv3 base score is 9.1 Critical.
It impacts various versions of PAN-OS 10.1, 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 11.1, and PAN-OS 11.2 software. On 11.2, the first fixed version is 11.2.4-h4, on 11.1 they are 11.1.2-h18 and 11.1.6-h1. For details about the other main versions’ status, please see the compatibility matrix in the Security Bulletin. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not affected.
This vulnerability enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit additional vulnerabilities such as CVE-2024-9474 or CVE-2025-0111.
CVE-2024-9474 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the web management interface of PAN-OS devices, also mentioned in this Advisory as observed attempts in the wild chained this exploit. An authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the firewall.
CVE-2025-0111 is an authenticated file read vulnerability in the Management Web Interface, which enables an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to read files on the PAN-OS filesystem that are readable by the “nobody” user.
The risk of these issues is greatly reduced if the management web interface access is restricted only to trusted internal IP addresses.
Security Researchers urge customers using vulnerable versions to upgrade as soon as possible, because according to the Security Advisory, this flaw was already exploited in the wild.
Details about the issue, the list of affected versions and additional information are available in the released bulletin:
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0108
Link to the researcher’s write-up at Assetnote Security:
https://www.assetnote.io/resources/research/nginx-apache-path-confusion-to-auth-bypass-in-pan-os
For more information about the vulnerability, please visit NVD’s site:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0108
https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2025-0108
