Google Fixes GCP Composer Flaw That Could’ve Led to Remote Code Execution

September 16, 2024 at 09:27AM A critical security flaw in Google Cloud Platform Composer, now patched, could have allowed remote code execution via a supply chain attack called dependency confusion. This could have led to a large-scale supply chain attack by tricking the package manager into downloading a malicious package. The issue was fixed by … Read more

Azure Health Bot Service Vulnerabilities Possibly Exposed Sensitive Data

August 14, 2024 at 11:16AM Tenable researchers identified vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot Service that could have been exploited by threat actors to access sensitive patient data. The vulnerabilities involved a data connection feature that allowed bots to interact with external sources, potentially leading to a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. Microsoft released server-side … Read more

Azure Service Tags tagged as security risk, Microsoft disagrees

June 3, 2024 at 02:59PM Tenable researchers discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Azure Service Tags, potentially allowing access to customers’ private data. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to impersonate trusted Azure services, bypass firewall rules, and access internal APIs. Microsoft contends Service Tags are not a security boundary and advises additional authentication and authorization layers … Read more

Critical Fluent Bit bug affects all major cloud providers, say researchers

May 21, 2024 at 01:54PM Infosec researchers have flagged a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-4323) in Fluent Bit, a widely used logging component. Tenable discovered the flaw, potentially leading to denial of service, information leakage, and remote code execution. The issue affects versions 2.0.7 through 3.0.3 and may compromise the security of major cloud providers and blue … Read more

Critical Bug Allows DoS, RCE, Data Leaks in All Major Cloud Platforms

May 20, 2024 at 04:04PM A severe memory corruption vulnerability named “Linguistic Lumberjack” is found in the popular cloud logging tool Fluent Bit, impacting numerous major cloud service providers and organizations. The bug, tracked under CVE-2024-4323, enables denial of service, data leakage, and remote code execution. Maintainers have released a fix, urging prompt updates or … Read more