In a security bulletin on February 19, ConnectWise announced critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1708 & CVE-2024-1709) to its on-premises ScreenConnect product (identified and responsibly reported by one of Kroll’s SOC analysts), allowing attackers to takeover an organization’s ScreenConnect. The vulnerability, trivial to exploit, allows anonymous individuals to a create system admin account on publicly exposed instances of the product.

Attention: a new Kubernetes vulnerability was uncovered by André Storfjord Kristiansen (@dev-bio on GitHub) and it demands immediate attention from security professionals and DevOps teams. CVE-2024-7646, affecting the popular ingress-nginx controller, allows malicious actors to bypass annotation validation and potentially gain unauthorized access to sensitive cluster resources. This vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High).

On August 13, 2024, SolarWinds released a hotfix for CVE-2024-28986, a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Web Help Desk (WHD). WHD is an IT service management software widely used across various industries for tracking and managing support tickets. This vulnerability arises from a Java deserialization flaw, which could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable hosts.

As we move through 2024, the Wallarm Research Team continues to monitor the evolving API vulnerability and threat landscape. Our latest Q2 ThreatStats Report reveals critical trends and developments that are reshaping the security environment. Continuing from our Q1 findings, the surge in AI API vulnerabilities is not only persisting but intensifying, with an alarming increase in both the volume and severity of exploits.

In early 2021, a new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-27928, was discovered and published. It affects multiple versions of the open-source relational database management systems (RDMBS) MariaDB and Percona Server, and the wsrep (write set replication) plugin for MySQL. Fortunately, security professionals swiftly released a patch to ensure that affected systems could be updated to mitigate risks.

Recently, CrowSec security researchers published a proof of concept (PoC) for a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Server (CVSS score 9.8), ranging all the way from Windows Server 2000 up to 2025. The vulnerable component is the Remote Desktop Licensing service, often deployed and enabled on Windows Servers using Remote Desktop Services. The exploit is a 0-click pre-auth exploitation, meaning no user interaction or authentication details are necessary.

The 2024 Olympics are in full swing, and everyone at Snyk is excited to tune into the games and cheer on our respective countries’ athletes. There’s a lot to love about the Olympics — dazzling opening ceremonies, heart-racing feats, close-call victories, and so much more. But along with all the fun and excitement comes a sense of inspiration.