Category Archives: Advisories

ZDI-24-886: Progress Software WhatsUp Gold SetAdminPassword Improper Access Control Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Progress Software WhatsUp Gold. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system or send an HTTP request from a local machine in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.4. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-5009.

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USN-6860-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilities

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Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled terminating
client connections. A remote authenticated client could possibly use this
issue to keep the connection active, bypassing certain security policies.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
(CVE-2024-28882)

Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain
control channel messages with nonprintable characters. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause OpenVPN to consume resources, or
fill up log files with garbage, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-5594)

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wordpress-6.5.5-1.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-89d685e856

Packages in this update:

wordpress-6.5.5-1.fc39

Update description:

WordPress 6.5.5 Maintenance & Security Release

Security updates included in this release

The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the HTML API reported by Dennis Snell of the WordPress Core Team, along with Alex Concha and Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski of the WordPress security team.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Template Part block reported independently by Rafie Muhammad of Patchstack and during a third party security audit.
A path traversal issue affecting sites hosted on Windows reported independently by Rafie M & Edouard L of Patchstack, David Fifield, x89, apple502j, and mishre.

See also the Upstream announcement

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