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Microsoft Windows Defender Privilege Escalation Flaws

It was an uneventful Patch Tuesday—until the headlines hit. Security feeds and vuln catalogs started buzzing: The Microsoft Windows Defender Firewall, a cornerstone of endpoint protection, had just been patched…

PravinKarthik September 13, 2025

CVE-2024-12398 impacts Zyxel Devices

CVE-2024-12398 is a critical vulnerability discovered in the web management interface of certain Zyxel devices. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user with limited privileges to escalate their privileges to that…

PravinKarthik January 14, 2025

Fortinet fixes FortiClient VPN Flaw CVE-2024-47574

Fortinet's has patched vulnerability in FortiClient VPN application potentially allows privilege escalation, execute code and possibly take over the box, and delete log files. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-47574,…

PravinKarthik November 15, 2024

Veritas fixes a Privilege Escalation Bug in its Backup Application

Veritas has addressed a privilege escalation vulnerability impacting its NetBackup software on Windows systems. This vulnerability, which affects NetBackup’s primary server, media server, and client components, exposes Windows-based NetBackup installations…

PravinKarthik November 7, 2024

ConfusedFunction Vulnerability in GCP

Researchers have uncovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Cloud Functions service on the Google Cloud Platform, that could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to other services and…

PravinKarthik July 26, 2024

QlikView Fixes Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – CVE-2024-29863

Qlik, the popular business intelligence software vendor, has released urgent security patches to address a critical vulnerability in its QlikView platform. This vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29863 with a CVSS of…

PravinKarthik April 5, 2024

Apache Superset Vulnerabilities December 2023

A quarter dozen of vulnerabilities affecting Apache Superset has been surfaced recently provoking immediate response from the organizations that’s using this application. Apache Superset: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2023-49734 with a…

PravinKarthik December 20, 2023

Papercut Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Unearthed

Security researcher has uncovered a critical flaw that could turn a lowly printer into a hotspot for hackers. Martin Mielke, a security researcher, was probing the latest version of Papercut…

PravinKarthik December 5, 2023