Application Programming Interface (API) attacks are set to become one of the most prevalent cyberattacks with a broad target range. By nature, APIs expose application logic and sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), causing APIs to become a target for attackers. In 2019, Gartner predicted that API hacks would become the most common form of cyberattacks in 2022. So how can teams stay ahead of API attacks?
At the end of March 2022, two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22963 and CVE-2022-22965) were discovered in different components of VMware Spring. Spring is a popular framework focused on facilitating the development of Java applications, including cloud-based apps, eliminating the need for additional code or concerns related to server requirements.
With more than 38 percent of our customers impacted by the recently discovered Spring4 Shell zero-day vulnerability and more than 33 percent of impacted organizations having already remediated (removed) some or all their vulnerable libraries, I have been involved in many conversations over this incident.
Directory traversal vulnerabilities (also known as path traversal vulnerabilities) allow bad actors to gain access to folders that they shouldn’t have access to. In this post, we are going to take a look how directory traversal vulnerabilities work on web servers written on C/C++, as well as how to prevent them.
On March 29, 2022, a critical vulnerability targeting the Spring Java framework was disclosed. This vulnerability was initially confused with a vulnerability in Spring Cloud, CVE-2022-22963. However, it was later identified as a separate vulnerability inside Spring Core, now tracked as CVE-2022-22965 and canonically named Spring4Shell.
On March 29, 2022, details of a zero-day vulnerability in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22965) were leaked. For many, this is reminiscent of the zero-day vulnerability in Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) back in December 2021.
A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was identified March 30th, 2022 for the Spring Framework. Spring core, used by millions of systems to develop Java web applications quickly, is one of the Java world’s most popular open source Java frameworks. The RCE vulnerability, if successfully exploited could potentially allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable system.
