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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. It’s also the crypto library used by systemd for DNSSEC. The team recommends users to stop using the vulnerable version of the library. which we released last week.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Qualys researchers discovered a root access flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-6246, in GNU Library C (glibc) affecting multiple Linux distributions. The Qualys Threat Research Unit discovered four security vulnerabilities in the GNU Library C (glibc) , including a heap-based buffer overflow tracked as CVE-2023-6246. in August 2022.

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MAY 6, 2023

The FBI disrupted once again the illegal eBook library Z-Library the authorities seized several domains used by the service. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized multiple domains used by the illegal shadow eBook library Z-Library. The library is still reachable through TOR and I2P networks.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

A vulnerability in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. A threat actor can trigger a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43641 (CVSS score: 8.8), in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Google assigned a maximum score to a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-5129, in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. Google assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5129 (CVSS score 10,0), in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts publicly disclose Proof-of-concept exploits for a critical zero-day vulnerability in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Experts publicly disclose Proof-of-concept exploits for a critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability, tracked a CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell ), in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Qlik Sense vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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MAY 3, 2022

A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. ” continues the advisory.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Two popular npm libraries, coa and rc. The security team of the npm JavaScript package warns that two popular npm libraries, coa and rc. Two npm libraries that have a total of 23 million weekly downloads, a data that is worrisome. The post npm libraries coa and rc. while compromised rc versions are 1.2.9,

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MARCH 26, 2025

Mojo is Googles IPC library for Chromium-based browsers, managing sandboxed processes for secure communication. On Windows, it enhances Chromes security, but past vulnerabilities have enabled sandbox escapes and privilege escalation.

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APRIL 15, 2023

The Goldoson library was discovered by researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team, it collects lists of applications installed on a device, and a history of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices information, including nearby GPS locations. It is important to highlight that the library was not developed by the authors of the apps.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

A high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737, has been disclosed in the SQLite database library. The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. through 3.39.1.

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APRIL 9, 2023

The development team behind the vm2 JavaScript sandbox library addressed a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

The open-source jsonwebtoken (JWT) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw that could lead to remote code execution. The open-source JsonWebToken ( JWT ) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-23529 (CVSS score: 7.6), that could lead to remote code execution.

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MARCH 13, 2025

“GitLab has remediated two privately disclosed security issues (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) identified in the ruby-saml library which GitLab uses when SAML SSO authentication is enabled at the instance or group level.” This library is, however, used in other popular projects and products.”

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Internet Archive disclosed a data breach, the security incident impacted more than 31 million users of its “The Wayback Machine.” As of September 5, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 42.1 million print materials, 13 million videos, 1.2

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JANUARY 15, 2025

An attackers with root access can to add a custom file system bundle to /Library/Filesystems. Since an attacker that can run as root can drop a new file system bundle to/Library/Filesystems, they can later triggerstoragekitdto spawn custom binaries, hence bypassing SIP.” ” concludes Microsoft.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These flaws could allow attackers to inject malicious libraries into Microsoft’s apps and steal permissions. Despite these risks, Microsoft considers the issues low-risk and declined to fix them, stating that some apps need to allow unsigned libraries for plugin support.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

” The “preloading” technique allows the system to load a custom shared library before other system libraries are loaded. If the custom shared library exports a function with the same signature of a library that is located in the system libraries, the custom version will override it.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Crooks used names typosquatting popular libraries, such as @async-mutex/mutex , dexscreener , solana-transaction-toolkit and solana-stable-web-huks. Socket researchers have identified multiple packages in the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repository designed to target Solana private keys and drain funds from victims’ wallets.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

The npm security team removed a malicious JavaScript library from the npm repository that was designed to steal sensitive files from the victims. The fallguys library claimed to provide an interface to the “ Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout ” game API. ” reads the npm’s advisory. .

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JULY 1, 2020

These files are all executable files that are part of GoogleSoftwareUpdate, which are most commonly found installed due to having Google Chrome installed on the machine.” ” states MalwareBytes.

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JULY 7, 2022

“Unlike other threats that hijack shared libraries by modifying the environment variable LD_PRELOAD, this malware uses 2 different ways to load the malicious library. “The shared object hooks functions from 3 libraries: libc, libcap and Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). ” continues the experts.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Experts warn that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second bug disclosed in the popular Log4j logging library. American web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare warns that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Then he overwrote the native-libraries with a malicious library created to execute his code. The expert initially noticed that the code will be executed at the successive restart of the Application, so he attempted to find a way to reload the library without relaunching the application.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js.

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MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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JULY 7, 2022

The development team behind the OpenSSL project fixed a high-severity bug in the library that could potentially lead to remote code execution. The maintainers of the OpenSSL project fixed a high-severity heap memory corruption issue , tracked as CVE-2022-2274 , affecting the popular library. which was released on June 21, 2022.

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MAY 22, 2022

The expert discovered a post where a researcher were sharing a fake Proof of Concept (POC) exploit code for an RPC Runtime Library Remote Code Execution flaw ( CVE-2022-26809 CVSS 9.8). “Usually, people working in information security or TAs use exploits to check for vulnerabilities. This PoC is fake do not run it.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The attacking server that is defined as the master uses this connection to download the shared library exp_lin.so MODULE LOAD command – this allows for the loading of a module from the dynamic library downloaded at stage 4 at runtime. This library allows for exploitation of the vulnerability and runs arbitrary commands later.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

CVE-2021-44832 is the fifth vulnerability discovered in the popular library in the last weeks. Like the previous issues affecting the library, this one could be exploited by threat actors to execute malicious code on affected systems. excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 The Apache Software Foundation released Log4j 2.17.1

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.” . “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. ” continues the advisory.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

. “In our ongoing investigation, Barracuda has determined that a threat actor has utilized an Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) vulnerability within a third party library, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, to deploy a specially crafted Excel email attachment to target a limited number of ESG devices.” ” reads the advisory.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Below is the complete list of vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft: Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity.NET and Visual Studio CVE-2022-24512.NET NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important.NET and Visual Studio CVE-2022-24464.NET

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JULY 16, 2024

This issue arises because the GeoTools library API, which GeoServer uses, evaluates property/attribute names for feature types in a way that unsafely passes them to the commons-jxpath library, allowing arbitrary code execution. GeoServer versions prior to 2.23.6,

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets. Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Expert discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability affecting the latest version of the OpenSSL library. Security expert Guido Vranken discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability in the recently released OpenSSL version 3.0.4. “OpenSSL version 3.0.4,

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