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APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks

Security Affairsby @securityaffairs ()3 min read2 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2018-13379
Unauthenticated Path Traversal in Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN
9.8100%KEVRansomware
KEV
CVE-2019-11510
Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read in Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure VPN
10.0100%KEVRansomwarePoC ×2
KEV
CVE-2019-19781
Unauthenticated path traversal RCE in Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP
9.8100%KEVRansomware
KEV
CVE-2020-1472
Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (Zerologon) in Microsoft Netlogon Domain Controllers
5.599%KEVRansomwarePoC
KEV
CVE-2020-1631
Unauthenticated Path Traversal/LFI in Juniper Junos OS HTTP/HTTPS Service
9.85%KEV
KEV
CVE-2020-2021
SAML Authentication Bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
10.04%KEVRansomware
KEV

From the original article

3 min read at securityaffairs.com

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint security alert to warn of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks.

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