Vulnerability Spotlight
Full article732 words · extracted from blog.talosintelligence.com · click to collapse
Coverage of the most important security issues Talos’ world-class vulnerability research team discovers and helps fix before the bad guys find it first.
August 5, 2025 09:00
ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…
Talos reported 5 vulnerabilities to Broadcom and Dell affecting both the ControlVault3 Firmware and its associated Windows APIs that we are calling “ReVault”.
March 5, 2024 15:30
Badgerboard: A PLC backplane network visibility module
Analysis of the traffic between networked devices has always been of interest since devices could even communicate with one another. As the complexity of networks grew, the more useful dedicated traffic analysis tools became. Major advancements have been made over the years wit
January 19, 2023 15:01
Vulnerability Spotlight: XSS vulnerability in Ghost CMS
Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ghost CMS. Ghost is a content management system with tools to build a website, publish content and send newsletters. Ghost offers paid subsc
July 14, 2022 10:22
Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGPU
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome’s WebGPU standard. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser — and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser that
March 23, 2022 16:07
Vulnerability Spotlight: Heap overflow in Sound Exchange libsox library
Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the sphere.c start_read() functionality of Sound Exchange libsox. The libsox library is a library of sound sample file fo
February 2, 2022 07:00
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Sealevel SeaConnect
Francesco Benvenuto and Matt Wiseman of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Update (Feb. 16, 2022): We are also disclosing a vulnerability in the Texas Instruments CC3200 SimpleLink microcontroller that is related to the SeaConnect vulnerabilities outlined in this post
November 22, 2021 11:40
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Advantech R-SeeNet
Yuri Kramarz discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Advantech R-SeeNet monitoring software. R-SeeNet is the software system used for monitoring Advantech routers. It continuously collects information from individual rou
October 18, 2021 15:03
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in ZTE MF971R LTE router
Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the ZTE MF971R LTE portable router. The MF971R is a portable router with Wi-Fi support and works as an LTE/GSM modem. An attacker could exploit all these vulnerabilities by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to th
October 14, 2021 13:17
Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerabilities in Nitro Pro PDF
A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nitro Pro PDF reader that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the application. Nitro Pro PDF is part of Nitro Software’s Productivit
September 13, 2021 10:12
Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerability in Nitro Pro PDF
A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a vulnerability in the Nitro Pro PDF reader that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the application. Nitro Pro PDF is part of Nitro Software’s Productivity Suite.
August 10, 2021 12:21
Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox that could lead to code execution. Firefox is a widely used web browser available on many operating systems. This specific vulne
August 4, 2021 10:16
Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerability in tinyobjloader
Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered that a specific function of tinyobjloader does not properly validate array indexes. An adversary could trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, causing an index out-of-bound
January 19, 2021 10:32
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in PrusaSlicer
Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered two out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in Prusa Research’s PrusaSlicer. Prusa Slicer is an open-source 3-D printer slicing program forked off Slic3r that can c
December 16, 2020 09:11
Vulnerability Spotlight: Two vulnerabilities in Lantronix XPort EDGE
Kelly Leuschner of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Executive summary Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the Web Manager functionality of Lantronix XPort EDGE. The XPort EDGE is a next-generation wired Ethernet gateway for
Text extracted automatically; images, tables and formatting may be missing. Original: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/category/vulnerability-spotlight/