On March 21st, 2025, the Next.js maintainers announced a new authorization bypass vulnerability – CVE-2025-29927. This vulnerability can be easily exploited to achieve authorization bypass. In some cases – exploitation of the vulnerability can also lead to cache poisoning and denial of service. Which versions of Next.js are affected? Next.js 15.x – from version 15.0.0 …
On July 24th 2024, Curl maintainers announced a new stack buffer Use After Free (UAF) vulnerability – CVE-2024-6197. This type of vulnerability is very uncommon since UAF issues usually occur on the heap and not on the stack. While the vulnerability can be easily exploited for causing denial of service, in this blog we will …
On September 23rd, Twitter user Simone Margaritelli (@evilsocket) announced that he has discovered and privately disclosed a CVSS 9.9 GNU/Linux unauthenticated RCE, which affects almost all Linux distributions, and that the public disclosure will happen on September 30th, Due to a suspected leak in the disclosure process, @evilsocket decided to advance the disclosure, and on …
On Sunday, June 2nd 2024, a fix commit was pushed for a vulnerability in GNU’s popular Wget tool. Two weeks later, the vulnerability was assigned the ID CVE-2024-38428 and later was classified as a critical vulnerability – with a CVSS score of 9.1. In this blog, we take a dive deep into this threat by …
The JFrog Security research team has recently discovered two security vulnerabilities in X.Org libX11, the widely popular graphics library – CVE-2023-43786 and CVE-2023-43787 (with a high NVD severity CVSS 7.8). These vulnerabilities cause a denial-of-service and remote code execution. X11’s latest versions contain fixes for these vulnerabilities. The team constantly monitors open-source projects to find …
The JFrog Security research team has recently discovered two security vulnerabilities in X.Org libX11, the widely popular graphics library – CVE-2023-43786 and CVE-2023-43787 (with a high NVD severity CVSS 7.8). These vulnerabilities cause a denial-of-service and remote code execution. X11’s latest versions contain fixes for these vulnerabilities. The team constantly monitors open-source projects to find …
The SSH Terrapin attack (CVE-2023-48795) has recently caught attention, targeting the SSH protocol security by truncating cryptographic information. The inherent flaw in the SSH protocol itself affects a wide range of SSH client and server implementations. Following our initial research communication, this post will detail its fundamentals and impact. Affected Implementations Terrapin Attack Exploitation Impacts …
In our recent webinar, Log4j Log4Shell Vulnerability Explained: All You Need To Know, our Senior Director Security Research expert Shachar Menashe shared information on the security issue and how to detect and remediate it. We are happy to share additional information in the following Q&A, based on the questions raised during the webinar. The Log4j …
Update – October 11, 2023: This blog has been updated to include all the details that have been published about the vulnerabilities. On Wednesday, October 4th 2023, Daniel Stenberg, one of Curl’s core maintainers announced that a forthcoming release of Curl, version 8.4.0, is scheduled to be available on October 11th 2023 at approximately 06:00 …
When scanning packages, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) scanners can find thousands of vulnerabilities. This leaves developers with the painstaking task of sifting through long lists of vulnerabilities to identify the relevance of each, only to find that many vulnerabilities don’t affect their artifacts at all. Vulnerability Contextual Analysis uses the artifact context to eliminate …
