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Hackers exploit DoS flaw to disable Palo Alto Networks firewalls
Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are exploiting the CVE-2024-3393 denial of service vulnerability to disable firewall protections by forcing it to reboot. Leveraging the security issue repeatedly, however, causes the device to enter maintenance mode and manual intervention is required to restore it to normal operations. “A Denial of Service vulnerability in the DNS Security feature of Palo Alto…
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Over 25,000 SonicWall VPN Firewalls exposed to critical flaws
Over 25,000 publicly accessible SonicWall SSLVPN devices are vulnerable to critical severity flaws, with 20,000 using a SonicOS/OSX firmware version that the vendor no longer supports. These results come from an analysis conducted by cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox, which was motivated by a series of important vulnerabilities disclosed this year impacting SonicWall devices. Vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall SSL VPN devices were recently…
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Over 2,000 Palo Alto firewalls hacked using recently patched bugs
Hackers have already compromised thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls in attacks exploiting two recently patched zero-day vulnerabilities. The two security flaws are an authentication bypass (CVE-2024-0012) in the PAN-OS management web interface that remote attackers can exploit to gain administrator privileges and a PAN-OS privilege escalation (CVE-2024-9474) that helps them run commands on the firewall with root privileges. While…
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