Cisco Talos Blog

January 31, 2024 12:00

OAS Engine Deep Dive: Abusing low-impact vulnerabilities to escalate privileges

Open Automation Software recently released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in their OAS Engine.  Cisco Talos publicly disclosed these issues after working with Open Automation Software to ensure that patches were available for users. Now that a fix has been released with Ve

October 17, 2023 08:00

Snapshot fuzzing direct composition with WTF

Although there is public research on Direct Composition, only a few discuss fuzzing this feature, and none, to our knowledge, that covers snapshot fuzzing.

July 13, 2023 12:00

Uncovering weaknesses in Apple macOS and VMWare vCenter: 12 vulnerabilities in RPC implementation

Uncovered issues fall into use-after-free, buffer-overflow, information leak and denial of service vulnerability classes. Some of these could be combined to achieve remote code execution or privilege escalation.

July 6, 2023 11:38

Taking over Milesight UR32L routers behind a VPN: 22 vulnerabilities and a full chain

In all, Cisco Talos is releasing 22 security advisories today, nine of which have a CVSS score greater than 8, associated with 69 CVEs.

January 15, 2019 15:02

Vulnerability Deep Dive: TP-Link TL-R600VPN remote code execution vulnerabilities

Introduction TP-Link recently patched three vulnerabilities in their TL-R600VPN gigabit broadband VPN router, firmware version 1.3.0. Cisco Talos publicly disclosed these issues after working with TP-Link to ensure that a patch was available. Now that a fix is out there, we wan