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Emerging Threat: Fortinet CVE-2024-55591

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 16, 2025

On January 14, 2025, Fortinet disclosed a new critical (CVSS 9.8) authentication bypass vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy. CVE-2024-55591 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to target the Node.js WebSocket module of the administrative interface and potentially gain super-admin privileges. CyCognito is helping customers identify assets vulnerable to CVE-2024-55591.



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Emerging Threat: Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 13, 2025

Ivanti disclosed two severe vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices. While both vulnerabilities involve similar buffer overflow mechanisms, only one allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and has been exploited in the wild. CyCognito customers can check their assets to identify if any are potentially vulnerable to these issues using filters available in the CyCognito dashboard.



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Emerging Threat: Windows LDAP CVE-2024-49113

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 8, 2025

CVE-2024-49113 is a high severity unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This vulnerability allows attackers to crash any unpatched Windows server with an internet-accessible DNS server by overwhelming a critical internal component of the operating system. Patching is recommended and vulnerable devices should be monitored for potential exploitation attempts.



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Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-3393 

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
December 31, 2024

CVE-2024-3393 is a high severity Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting specific versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS DNS Security feature. CyCognito has shared lists of potentially affected assets running PAN-OS with affected customers alongside a notification in-platform.



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Emerging Threat: Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
December 19, 2024

CVE-2024-53677 is a critical (9.5) remote code execution(RCE) vulnerability affecting popular open-source framework Apache Struts. Affected organizations are encouraged to upgrade to Struts 6.4.0 or greater and/or migrate to the new file upload mechanism. This vulnerability is actively being exploited and poses significant danger to enterprise organizations in both the public and private sectors.



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Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 & CVE-2024-9474

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 20, 2024

On November 18, 2024, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) disclosed two serious vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. Chained together, these vulnerabilities create the perfect conditions for pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE). CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect vulnerable assets and all customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of November 20th, 2024.



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Emerging Threat: FortiJump (CVE-2024-47575) 

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 29, 2024

CVE-2024-47575 (FortiJump) is a missing authentication vulnerability affecting critical functions in FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud versions. Approximately 60,000 assets are externally exposed worldwide. All CyCognito customers have access to an in-platform emerging threat announcement and methods to identify potentially vulnerable assets.



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Emerging Security Issue: Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2024-23113

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 16, 2024

CVE-2024-23113 is a critical (9.8) Fortinet remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting a variety of Fortinet products and versions. CyCognito is investigating active tests for CVE-2024-9463. Users can check if their assets are potentially vulnerable using provided filters in the CyCognito platform.



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Emerging Security Issue: Multiple CUPS Vulnerabilities

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 16, 2024

On September 26, 2024, four critical RCE vulnerabilities were disclosed in components of the open-source printing system CUPS. CyCognito is investigating active detection methods for these vulnerabilities. Users can check if any assets are potentially vulnerable using provided filters in the CyCognito platform.



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Emerging Security Issue: Multiple Palo Alto Networks Expedition PAN-OS Firewalls Vulnerabilities

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 16, 2024

On October 9th, 2024, five vulnerabilities affecting Palo Alto Networks Expedition before version 1.2.96 were disclosed by Palo Alto Networks. These issues include OS command injection, SQL injection, cleartext storage of sensitive data, and reflected XSS vulnerabilities. Though active exploitation has not been reported, CyCognito has released an active test and in-app notification covering these issues due to risks posed by their severity and ease of exploitation.




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CyCognito Research Report

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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