mitigations

  1. Westermo WeOS 5 OS Command Injection (CVE-2025-46418) - Risks & Mitigations

    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...
  2. Critical Apache Vulnerabilities in Siemens OT Tools: SINEC NMS, SINEMA, RUGGEDCOM NMS

    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...
  3. CVE-2025-7746: XSS in Schneider Electric Altivar Drives—Fixes & Mitigations

    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...
  4. CVE-2025-48976 DoS in Siemens IEM-OS: No Patch, Migrate to IEM-V

    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...
  5. September 2025 Patch Tuesday: 80+ CVEs, EoP/RCE Focus & HPC Risk

    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...
  6. CVE-2025-53810: Windows Local Privilege Escalation via Type Confusion in a Privileged Service

    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...
  7. CVE-2025-55243 Spoofing in Microsoft OfficePlus: Quick Mitigation Guide

    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...
  8. CVE-2025-55228: Windows GRFX Race Condition and Patch Guidance

    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...
  9. CVE-2025-54904: Excel Use-After-Free Could Allow Local Code Execution

    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...
  10. Verifying CVE-2025-54905: Office/Word Untrusted Pointer Dereference & Mitigations

    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...
  11. CVE-2025-54099: Windows AFD.sys Stack Overflow Privilege Escalation Explained

    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...
  12. Siemens SSA-493396 Deserialization CVE-2025-40759 in TIA Portal

    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...
  13. XXE Vulnerability CVE-2025-40584 in Siemens SIMOTION SCOUT and SINAMICS STARTER

    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...
  14. CVE-2025-53730: Visio Use-After-Free RCE and Patch Guide

    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...
  15. CISA Warns of Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems: Mitigation Insights

    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...
  16. AA21-291A: BlackMatter Ransomware

    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...
  17. AA21-259A: APT Actors Exploiting Newly Identified Vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

    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...
  18. AA21-229A: BadAlloc Vulnerability Affecting BlackBerry QNX RTOS

    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...
  19. AA21-201A: Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

    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...
  20. AA21-148A: Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign Targets Government Organizations, IGOs, and NGOs

    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...