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Last week, Michael Bargury and the team at Zenity published a video summarizing 6 vulnerabilities that are found in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The video highlights, in sequence, a myriad of ways that business users can create their own AI Copilots that are risky, why they are risky, and how they can be easily exploited. While I highly recommend checking out the video, this blog sets out to provide a look at why these vulnerabilities matter, and what considerations should be taken to mitigate them.

For the past 12 years in Austin, TX, the last week of October has been reserved for the Lonestar Application Security Conference (LASCON). Unequivocally, LASCON is the best cybersecurity conference you have never heard of! LASCON is the annual confab of the Austin, TX OWASP (the Open Worldwide Application Security Project) chapter. OWASP is a volunteer organization that is a treasure trove of application security information with things such as standards, discussion groups, documentation, and more.

On December 13, 2023, threat actors began exploitation attempts against CVE-2023-50164, a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting Apache Struts, an open-source framework used to create Java Web applications. Based on current intelligence, the threat actors are leveraging a publicly published proof of concept (PoC) exploit.

We’re proud that Snyk has been honored with inclusion on the inaugural Fortune Cyber 60 list as a top growth-stage company. The full list was unveiled late last week. In 2023, our industry encountered distinctive challenges, but the entire Snyk community demonstrated resilience and a steadfast commitment to our founding mission: empowering and equipping DevSecOps teams worldwide to build securely.

On November 16, 2023, Google’s Threat Analysis Group revealed an alarming vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration—a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability assigned CVE-2023-37580. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a software platform that combines email, calendar, contacts, file sharing, and other collaboration tools into a single integrated package. The CVE-2023-37580 allows an attacker to inject a malicious script directly into the URL parameter.

In modern web development, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) have become a popular method of securely transmitting information between parties. JWTs are used for authentication and authorization and are often used to store user information. However, with the increasing use of JWTs come potential security risks that developers need to be aware of. As a developer, you are responsible for ensuring that your application is secure and user data is protected.

By Vadim Freger, Dolev Moshe Attiya On December 7th, 2023, the Apache Struts project disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8) in its Struts 2 open-source web framework. The vulnerability resides in the flawed file upload logic and allows attackers to manipulate upload parameters, resulting in arbitrary file upload and code execution under certain conditions. There is no known workaround, and the only solution is to upgrade to the latest versions, the affected versions being.

Apache has released an advisory for a critical vulnerability discovered in Struts versions 2.0.0-2.3.37(EOL), 6.0.0-6.3.0.1 and 2.0.0-2.5.32. This vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2023-50164 with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) and is reportedly being actively exploited. Impacted versions are affected by a file upload and directory traversal vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution.