A PoC exploit for CVE-2023-21716, a critical RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Word that can be exploited when the user previews a specially crafted RTF document, is now publicly available.

Numerous threat actors were detected abusing a critical CVE-2022-47966 RCE vulnerability affecting products from ManageEngine. Read our advisory.

Command & Control (C2) frameworks are a very sensitive component of Red Team operations. Often, a Red Team will be in a highly privileged position on a target’s network, and a compromise of the C2 framework could lead to a compromise of both the red team operator’s system and control over beacons established on a target’s systems. As such, vulnerabilities in C2 frameworks are high priority targets for threat actors and Counterintelligence (CI) operations. On September 20, 2022, HelpSystems published an out-of-band patch for Cobalt Strike which stated that there was potential for Remote Code Execution (RCE).

Circa the beginning of August 2022, while doing security monitoring & incident response services, GTSC SOC team discovered that a critical infrastructure was being attacked, specifically to their Microsoft Exchange application. During the investigation, GTSC Blue Team experts determined that the attack utilized an unpublished Exchange security vulnerability, i.e., a 0-day vulnerability, thus immediately came up with a temporary containment plan.

CVE-2022-1388 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the management interface of F5 Networks’ BIG-IP solution that enables an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution on the system through bypassing F5’s iControl REST authentication. The vulnerability was first discovered by F5’s internal product security team and disclosed publicly on May 4, 2022.

CVE-2022-1388 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the management interface of F5 Networks’ BIG-IP solution that enables an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution on the system through bypassing F5’s iControl REST authentication. The vulnerability was first discovered by F5’s internal product security team and disclosed publicly on May 4, 2022.