What is the Vulnerability?A new zero-day vulnerability has recently been discovered in the Visuals component of Chrome, which is responsible for rendering and displaying web content. This “use after free” vulnerability tagged as CVE-2024-4671 can cause a browser to crash, execute code, and leak data. According to Google, the vulnerability is being actively exploited and CISA has already added this vulnerability to its known exploited catalog. What is the vendor mitigation?Google released security updates on May 9, 2024 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux affecting the Google Chrome browser. The vendor advises users to ensure that they are running the latest version of their browsers. Also, users of Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Opera are also advised to apply the fixes as they become available. What FortiGuard coverage is available?FortiGuard Labs has released endpoint vulnerability signatures to detect vulnerable software versions of Chrome, reducing the attack surface and making patching easier.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Delta Electronics CNCSoft-B. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-1595.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Delta Electronics InfraSuite Device Master. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 9.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2023-46604.
It was discovered that missing input sanitising in the Atril document
viewer could result in writing arbitrary files in the users home directory
if a malformed epub document is opened.
