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Westermo’s WeOS 5 series has a newly disclosed high‑severity vulnerability that deserves immediate attention from industrial network operators and Windows network teams responsible for OT‑IT convergence, because it can be used to inject operating‑system commands when an attacker can reach an...

Siemens has republished a critical advisory that pulls a spotlight back onto a cluster of high-severity Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities found embedded inside several Siemens industrial networking products — most notably RUGGEDCOM NMS, SINEC NMS, and SINEMA family components — and is urging...

A newly disclosed Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑7746, affects a broad set of Schneider Electric Altivar drives and modules — including the ATVdPAC module (fixed in VW3A3530D version 25.0), multiple Altivar Process and Machine drives, and the ILC992 InterLink...

Siemens’ Industrial Edge Management OS (IEM‑OS) is exposed to a remotely exploitable denial‑of‑service condition tied to the Apache Commons FileUpload library (tracked as CVE‑2025‑48976), and the vendor’s published guidance makes clear that affected IEM‑OS installs — all reported versions — have...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday consolidates a large and varied set of fixes: Microsoft shipped updates covering roughly eighty CVEs across 15 product families, with a cluster of Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues dominating the tally and a small set of...

Microsoft’s advisory classifies CVE-2025-53810 as a local elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) in a privileged Windows service that results from “access of resource using incompatible type” (a type‑confusion memory safety bug); Microsoft lists the issue in its Security Update Guide and recommends...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-55243 as a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft OfficePlus that can lead to the exposure of sensitive information and enable an attacker to perform spoofing over a network, but key public mirrors and automated scrapers offer limited or inconsistent...

Microsoft’s security portal lists CVE-2025-55228 as a Windows Graphics Component issue in the Win32K — GRFX code path that can be abused by an authenticated local actor through a concurrency/race condition; the flaw is described as allowing execution of attacker-supplied code in kernel context...

Microsoft's advisory confirms a use‑after‑free flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a specially crafted spreadsheet is opened, creating a potentially serious escalation path on unpatched systems. (msrc.microsoft.com) Overview This vulnerability, tracked as...

Thanks — I can write the 2,000+ word feature article, but first a quick verification step. I tried to load the MSRC page you linked (Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center) but the Security Update Guide is rendered dynamically and I couldn’t extract the advisory text from...

Microsoft’s advisory identifies a vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that can be triggered locally to escalate privileges — described on the vendor page as a buffer overflow in the WinSock ancillary driver — and administrators must treat this as a...

Siemens ProductCERT has published SSA‑493396 — a deserialization vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑40759) that affects a broad swath of TIA‑Portal engineering components, including SIMATIC S7‑PLCSIM V17, STEP 7, and WinCC variants; Siemens assigns a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 and a CVSS v4 base score of...

Siemens has disclosed an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in multiple versions of SIMOTION SCOUT, SIMOTION SCOUT TIA, and SINAMICS STARTER that can be triggered by specially crafted XML files and may allow an attacker to read arbitrary files from a compromised host; the issue has been...

Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-53730, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Visio that Microsoft describes as allowing an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally when a specially crafted Visio file is opened. (msrc.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft...

On October 1, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) dropped a significant bombshell by releasing two crucial advisories concerning vulnerabilities found in industrial control systems (ICS). Always vigilant in protecting national infrastructure, CISA aims to provide...

Original release date: October 18, 2021 Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Use Link Removed. • Use Link Removed. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note...

Original release date: September 16, 2021 Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 8. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for referenced threat actor tactics and for techniques. This joint advisory is...

Original release date: August 17, 2021 Summary On August 17, 2021, BlackBerry publicly disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is affected by a Link Removed vulnerability—CVE-2021-22156. BadAlloc is a collection of vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting...

Original release date: July 20, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information...

Original release date: May 28, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are responding to a spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental...