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On December 10, 2024, Ivanti released updates for three critical-severity vulnerabilities impacting their Cloud Services Application. By chaining the vulnerabilities together, a threat actor could obtain administrative privileges via authentication bypass (CVE-2024-11639), which could then allow for remote code execution (CVE-2024-11172) and/or SQL injection (CVE-2024-11173).

Update: Dec 11, 2024. Find the latest information in our follow-up security bulletin. On December 7, 2024, Arctic Wolf began observing a novel campaign exploiting Cleo Managed File Transfer (MFT) products across several customer environments. Initial indications of malicious activity in this campaign were identified as early as October 19, with a sharp increase in early December.

On December 3, 2024, Veeam disclosed a critical vulnerability within the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), tracked as CVE-2024-42448, which was discovered during internal testing. VSPC is a management tool designed for service providers to manage customer backups. The vulnerability allows a remote threat actor to perform Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the VSPC server machine from an authorized VSPC management agent machine.

On November 18, 2024, Palo Alto Networks disclosed the existence of two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474) in Palo Alto Networks OS (PAN-OS), the operating system used on their firewall devices. A day later, watchTowr released a report providing technical details on how to chain the two vulnerabilities together to achieve remote code execution of these vulnerabilities.

As the threat landscape evolves alongside organizations’ move toward digital-first operations and cloud-based applications, part of a robust cybersecurity strategy becomes not just preventing attacks but knowing how best to respond if and when one occurs. That response, specifically digital forensics incident response (DFIR), is the key to mitigating and recovering from a cyber incident.

On November 19, 2024, Arctic Wolf began observing active exploitation of the recently-disclosed CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 vulnerabilities impacting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. When chained together, these vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated threat actor with network access to the management web interface to gain administrator privileges.