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Security digest: May 14, 2024

2 known exploited (cisa kev) additions and 5 critical advisories.

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Take stock

  • Do you run any of these? Microsoft DWM Core Library, Microsoft Windows. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2024-06-04.
  • Go: 2 critical advisories (github.com/grafana/grafana). Check with govulncheck ./....
  • Composer (PHP): 2 critical advisories (cockpit-hq/cockpit, prestashop/prestashop). Check with composer audit.
  • Maven: 1 critical advisory (org.apache.karaf:cave). Check with mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>.
  • None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

Known exploited (CISA KEV) 2

Added to CISA’s catalog on this day: confirmed exploitation in the wild. Due date = CISA’s deadline for US federal agencies.

CVEProduct and flawCISA due
CVE-2024-30051Microsoft DWM Core Library
Microsoft DWM Core Library Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Ransomware
2024-06-04
CVE-2024-30040Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
2024-06-04

Critical advisories by ecosystem 5

GitHub-reviewed advisories rated critical, published this day (Pacific time).

Composer (PHP) 2

Check: composer audit

Go 2

Check: govulncheck ./...

Maven 1

Check: mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>