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On June 23, 2023, Fortinet disclosed a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2023-33299) affecting FortiNAC, a network access control solution utilized by organizations to manage network access policies and compliance. This vulnerability is the result of the deserialization of untrusted data. Deserialization vulnerabilities such as this one are dangerous because a threat actor can insert a modified serialized object into the system which leads to unauthenticated RCE.

Open source Velero is a popular choice amongst Kubernetes community for backup of their application. Along with scheduling regular backups for your Kubernetes clusters, monitoring Velero and getting automated alerts for failed Velero backups is also important. When your most important backup fails, you want to know about it immediately and make sure your application notifies you.

Recently, a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-27997 was identified in Fortinet Fortigate appliances. Fortinet makes some of the most popular firewall and VPN devices on the market, which makes them an attractive target for threat actors. This vulnerability has been exploited by the Chinese APT group Volt Typhoon, among others, targeting governments and organizations worldwide. As a result, Fortinet has released an urgent patch for affected systems.