Cisco Talos Blog

January 2, 2019 13:50

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in CleanMyMac X

Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities in MacPaw’s CleanMyMac X software. CleanMyMac X is a cleanup application for Mac operating systems that allows users to free up extra sp

December 11, 2018 15:54

Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC text field remote code execution vulnerability

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary Adobe Acrobat Reader DC contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the victim’s machine. If the attacker tricks the user into opening a specially crafted P

November 19, 2018 09:30

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote vulnerabilities in TP-Link TL-R600VPN

Vulnerabilities discovered by Carl Hurd and Jared Rittle of Cisco Talos. Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in the TP-Link TL-R600VPN router. TP-Link produces a number of different types of small and home office (SOHO) routers. Talos discovered several bugs in th

October 31, 2018 16:18

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Yi Technology Home Camera

Vulnerabilities Discovered by Lilith [x_x] of Cisco Talos. Overview Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in the firmware of the Yi Technology Home Camera. In order to prevent the exploitation of these vulnerabilities, Talos worked with Yi Technology to make sure a

October 26, 2018 12:16

Vulnerability Spotlight: Talos-2018-0694 - MKVToolNix mkvinfo read_one_element Code Execution Vulnerability

Piotr Bania, Cory Duplantis and Martin Zeiser of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a vulnerability that we identified in the MKVToolNix mkvinfo utility that parses the Matroska file format video files (.mkv files). MKVToolNix

October 18, 2018 10:48

Vulnerability Spotlight: Live Networks LIVE555 streaming media RTSPServer code execution vulnerability

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Lilith Wyatt of Cisco Talos. Cisco Talos is disclosing a code execution vulnerability that has been identified in Live Networks LIVE555 streaming media RTSPServer. LIVE555 Streaming Media is a set of open-source C++ libraries developed b

October 16, 2018 12:25

Vulnerability Spotlight: Linksys ESeries Multiple OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities in the operating system on the Linksys E Series of routers. Multiple exploitable OS command injection vulnerabilities exist in the Linksys E Series line of routers. An attacker can exploit these bugs by sending an authenticated H

October 10, 2018 12:21

Microsoft WindowsCodecs.dll SniffAndConvertToWideString Information Leak Vulnerability

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos. Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a vulnerability in the WindowsCodecs.dll component of the Windows operating system. WindowsCodecs.dll is a component library that exists in the implementation of Windows Imagin

October 9, 2018 14:59

Vulnerability Spotlight: VMWare Workstation DoS Vulnerability

Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a vulnerability in VMware Workstation that could result in denial of service. VMware Workstation is a widely used virtualization platform designed to run alongside a normal operating system, allowing users to use both virtualized and physical syst