Skip to content
Threat Feed

Threat briefs

Use the filters to narrow the full brief archive. Filtered views, including Last 24 hours, are encoded in the URL so they can be bookmarked or shared.

January 2024 (30)

medium advisory

AWS IAM User Creates Access Keys For Another User

An adversary with access to compromised AWS credentials may attempt to persist or escalate privileges by creating a new set of access keys for an existing IAM user, potentially leading to unauthorized access to resources and data.

AWS Identity and Access Management cloud aws iam persistence privilege-escalation
2r 2t
medium advisory

AWS KMS Key Policy Updated via PutKeyPolicy

Detection of successful PutKeyPolicy calls on AWS KMS keys to identify potential privilege escalation or unauthorized access by adversaries modifying key policies to decrypt or exfiltrate data.

KMS cloud aws privilege-escalation defense-evasion
2r 2t
medium advisory

CVE-2026-34293: Unspecified Vulnerability in Microsoft Product

CVE-2026-34293 is an unspecified vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product, for which details are currently unavailable, posing a potential risk to affected systems.

cve vulnerability microsoft
2r 1c
high advisory

Admidio Inverted 2FA Reset Allows Privilege Escalation

A logic error in Admidio's two-factor authentication reset inverts the authorization check, allowing non-admin users to remove other users' TOTP, including administrators, reducing their security to password-only authentication in versions 5.0.8 and earlier.

admidio 2fa bypass privilege-escalation
2r 2t
high advisory

Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Invalid License Detection

Detection of unauthorized access or privilege escalation attempts within Azure environments due to invalid or missing Microsoft Entra Premium P2 or Microsoft Entra ID Governance licenses for Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

Azure pim privileged-identity-management invalid-license
2r 1t
medium advisory

CVE-2026-31613 SMB Client Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

CVE-2026-31613 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the SMB client when parsing symlink error responses, requiring patching to prevent potential information disclosure or denial-of-service.

cve-2026-31613 smb out-of-bounds read vulnerability
2r 1t 1c
medium advisory

Detection of User-Reported Phishing or Malware in Office 365

This detection identifies potentially malicious emails reported by users within an Office 365 environment through Security & Compliance policies, indicating possible phishing or malware attacks targeting the organization.

Office 365 +2 office365 phishing user-reporting
2r 1t
high advisory

Entra ID Service Principal Federated Issuer Modification

Entra ID (Azure AD) service principal federated issuers can be modified by an attacker to establish persistence within a target environment.

Entra ID azuread persistence federated_identity
2r 1t
high advisory

Multiple Azure AD Service Principals Created by Single User

A single user account rapidly creates multiple Azure AD service principals, potentially indicating malicious activity such as persistence establishment or privilege escalation.

azuread persistence serviceprincipal
2r 1t
medium advisory

Potential Ransomware Behavior - Note Files Dropped via SMB

This rule detects potential ransomware behavior by identifying the creation of multiple files with the same name over SMB by the SYSTEM account, potentially indicating remote execution of ransomware dropping note files.

Elastic Defend ransomware impact lateral-movement windows
2r 4t
medium advisory

ProblemChild ML Detection of Suspicious Windows Processes

The ProblemChild machine learning model has detected a user with suspicious Windows processes exhibiting unusually high malicious probability scores, potentially indicating defense evasion via masquerading or LOLbins.

Windows defense-evasion machine-learning
2r 2t
high advisory

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Form Maker by 10Web WordPress Plugin

The Form Maker by 10Web WordPress plugin is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'inputs' parameter in versions up to 1.15.42, allowing unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the database.

Form Maker by 10Web sql-injection wordpress plugin
2r 1t 1c
medium advisory

Suspicious WMIC XSL Script Execution

This rule detects suspicious execution of scripts via WMIC, potentially used for allowlist bypass, by identifying WMIC executions with atypical arguments and the loading of specific libraries like jscript.dll or vbscript.dll for defense evasion and execution.

Elastic Defend defense-evasion execution windows
2r 3t
high advisory

Tinyproxy HTTP Request Parsing Desynchronization Vulnerability (CVE-2026-31842)

Tinyproxy versions 1.11.3 and earlier are vulnerable to HTTP request parsing desynchronization due to case-sensitive comparison of the Transfer-Encoding header, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service or security control bypass by sending crafted requests.

Tinyproxy http desync denial-of-service CVE-2026-31842 linux
2r 4t 1c
low advisory

Unusual Remote File Directory Lateral Movement Detection

An Elastic machine learning job detects anomalous remote file transfers to unusual directories, indicating potential lateral movement by attackers attempting to bypass standard security monitoring.

lateral-movement machine-learning elastic
2r 2t
high advisory

AVideo CSRF Vulnerability Allows Admin Impersonation

AVideo versions 29.0 and prior contain a CSRF vulnerability in admin-only JSON endpoints, allowing attackers to perform unauthorized actions if they can lure a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious page.

AVideo csrf web-application vulnerability
2r 1t 1c
high advisory

CODESYS Control Runtime Boot Application Replacement Vulnerability (CVE-2025-41660)

A low-privileged remote attacker can replace the boot application of the CODESYS Control runtime system via CVE-2025-41660, leading to unauthorized code execution.

CODESYS Control Runtime codesys unauthorized-code-execution cve-2025-41660
2r 1t
high advisory

Cyber-III Student-Management-System Improper Authorization Vulnerability (CVE-2026-5642)

CVE-2026-5642 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on a Cyber-III Student-Management-System by manipulating the Name argument in an HTTP POST request to /viva/update.php due to improper authorization.

Student-Management-System CVE-2026-5642 privilege-escalation web-application
2r 1t 1c
critical advisory

PraisonAI Arbitrary File Write via Path Traversal in Recipe Unpack

A critical path traversal vulnerability in PraisonAI's `recipe unpack` allows arbitrary file writes by unpacking a malicious bundle, leading to potential privilege escalation and persistence.

PraisonAI path-traversal arbitrary-file-write
2r 2t 1c
high advisory

QueryMine SMS SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2026-6490)

A remote SQL injection vulnerability exists in QueryMine sms up to version 7ab5a9ea196209611134525ffc18de25c57d9593 within the admin/deletecourse.php file, caused by improper handling of the ID GET request parameter, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or modification.

QueryMine SMS sql-injection web-application cve-2026-6490 querymine
2r 1t 1c
low advisory

Kubernetes Denied Service Account Request via Unusual User Agent

A Kubernetes service account made an unauthorized request to the API server using an unusual user agent, potentially indicating compromised credentials used for resource discovery or lateral movement.

Kubernetes service-account discovery
2r 1t
critical advisory

Unsecured Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Deployments Expose AI Integrations

Unsecured Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, used to connect AI agents to enterprise tools, lack authentication and audit trails, leading to data exfiltration, private repo leaks, cross-tenant exposure, and remote code execution due to AI agents using valid user credentials to make API calls based on potentially poisoned context.

Claude +4 ai mcp zero-trust data-exfiltration rce
2r 8t 1i
medium advisory

Detection of Sensitive LDAP Attribute Access

This rule detects unauthorized access to sensitive Active Directory object attributes such as unixUserPassword, ms-PKI-AccountCredentials, and msPKI-CredentialRoamingTokens, potentially leading to credential theft and privilege escalation.

Active Directory +1 credential-access privilege-escalation collection windows
2r 5t
high advisory

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20133)

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager contains an information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2026-20133) that could allow remote attackers to view sensitive information on affected systems, requiring immediate patching or mitigation.

Catalyst SD-WAN Manager cve vulnerability cisco sd-wan
2r 1t 1c
low advisory

GitHub App Deletion Detection

Detection of GitHub App deletion events, potentially indicating defense evasion or disruption of automated workflows by malicious actors.

GitHub defense_evasion execution
2r 2t
critical advisory

SiYuan Path Traversal Vulnerability (CVE-2026-40318)

SiYuan versions 3.6.3 and prior are vulnerable to path traversal (CVE-2026-40318), allowing attackers to delete arbitrary .json files on the server via the /api/av/removeUnusedAttributeView endpoint.

SiYuan path-traversal vulnerability
3r 1t 1c
critical advisory

WWBN AVideo Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-33293)

WWBN AVideo versions before 26.0 are vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient sanitization of the `deleteDump` parameter in `plugin/CloneSite/cloneServer.json.php`, allowing attackers with clone credentials to delete critical files via path traversal.

AVideo file-deletion path-traversal web-application
2r 1t
high advisory

WWBN AVideo SSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2026-41060)

WWBN AVideo versions 29.0 and below are vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) due to an insufficient hostname check in the `isSSRFSafeURL()` function, allowing attackers to reach arbitrary ports on the AVideo server and exfiltrate data.

AVideo ssrf cve-2026-41060 web-application
2r 1t 1c
high advisory

OpenClaw Configuration Redaction Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the openclaw npm package before version 2026.4.14 allows authenticated clients with config read access to receive unredacted secrets due to bypasses in `sourceConfig` and `runtimeConfig` alias fields.

openclaw npm vulnerability redaction-bypass
2r
high advisory

OpenClaw Gateway Bearer Auth Bypass After Secret Rotation

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.4.15 have a vulnerability where gateway HTTP and WebSocket handlers cache bearer-auth configuration at server startup, allowing a revoked token to remain valid after SecretRef rotation until restart, potentially granting unauthorized access.

OpenClaw authentication-bypass secret-rotation
2r 1t