Insights

Atlassian has released its security bulletin for September 2023 to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A malicious cyber actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Atlassian’s September 2023 Security Bulletin and apply the necessary updates.

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security advisories to address vulnerabilities affecting ISC’s Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9. A malicious cyber actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial-of-service conditions. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following ISC advisories and apply necessary updates or workarounds: CVE-2023-4236: named may terminate unexpectedly under high DNS-over-TLS query load CVE-2023-3341: A stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code may cause named to terminate unexpectedly

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware, which provides indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the Snatch ransomware variant. FBI investigations identified these IOCs and TTPs as recently as June 1, 2023. Snatch threat actors operate a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model and change their tactics according to current cybercriminal trends and successes of other ransomware…

Today, CISA released the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program: Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Reference Architecture to help federal civilian departments and agencies integrate their identity and access management (IDAM) capabilities into their ICAM architectures. Prior to this release, there was no singular, authoritative, and recognized reference for architecting an ICAM capability across an enterprise.  This publication provides: a description of the federal ICAM practice area, including how ICAM services and components implement ICAM use…

Fortinet has released security updates to address vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-29183 and CVE-2023-34984) affecting FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiWeb. A cyber threat actor can exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Fortinet security advisories (FG-IR-23-106 and FG-IR-23-068) and apply the necessary updates.

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-35674 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2023-20269 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Unauthorized Access Vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 Google Chrome Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Note: To view other newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in the “Date Added…