Skip to content
NewA calmer, faster ZeroHour
Data breachcritical

Week in review: CrowdStrike update causes widespread IT outage, critical Splunk Enterprise flaw

Help Net Securityby @helpnetsecurity ()4 min read2 · 1 read
Analyze this story with Vani AIImpact, who is affected and what defenders should do, in a new chat

Vulnerabilities mentioned

All
CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2024-20401
A vulnerability in the content scanning and message filtering features of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to…
9.82%
CVE-2024-20419
A vulnerability in the authentication system of Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to change…
10.081%
CVE-2024-36991
In Splunk Enterprise on Windows versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10, an attacker could perform a path traversal on the /modules/messaging/ endpoint in…
7.513%
CVE-2024-38112
Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2024-38112)
7.584%KEV
KEV
CVE-2024-39929
Exim through 4.97.1 misparses a multiline RFC 2231 header filename, and thus remote attackers can bypass a $mime_filename extension-blocking protection…
5.441%PoC

From the original article

4 min read at helpnetsecurity.com

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide Hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been made inoperable by a faulty update of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors, and the outage affected transport, broadcast, financial, retail and other organizations in…

Help Net Security

By @helpnetsecurity · helpnetsecurity.com

Read the full article at Help Net Security

A short excerpt; the article and its images belong to the publisher. Summary, key facts and assessment above are AI-written from the article and can be wrong.