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Security digest: September 16, 2024

2 known exploited (cisa kev) additions and 1 critical advisory.

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Take stock

  • Do you run any of these? Progress WhatsUp Gold, Microsoft Windows. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2024-10-07.
  • Maven: 1 critical advisory (org.apache.seata:seata-core). 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-2024-6670Progress WhatsUp Gold
Progress WhatsUp Gold SQL Injection Vulnerability Ransomware
2024-10-07
CVE-2024-43461Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability
2024-10-07

Critical advisories by ecosystem 1

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

Maven 1

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