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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 15th, 2025: Microsoft Patchday; Ivanti Advisory; Fortinet Patches Oct 14, 2025

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Microsoft not only released new patches, but also the last patches for Windows 10, Office 2016, Office 2019, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20October%202025/32368
Ivanti Advisory
Ivanti released an advisory with some mitigation steps users can take until the recently made public vulnerablities are patched.
https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-Endpoint-Manager-EPM-October-2025?language=en_US
Fortinet Patches
https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-010
https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-361

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 14th, 2025: ESAFENET Scans; Payroll Priates; MSFT Edge IE Mode Oct 13, 2025

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Scans for ESAFENET CDG V5
We do see some increase in scans for the Chinese secure document management system, ESAFENET.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Heads%20Up%3A%20Scans%20for%20ESAFENET%20CDG%20V5%20/32364
Investigating targeted payroll pirate attacks affecting US universities
Microsoft wrote about how payroll pirates redirect employee paychecks via phishing.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/09/investigating-targeted-payroll-pirate-attacks-affecting-us-universities/
Attacks against Edge via IE Mode
Microsoft Edge offers an IE legacy mode to support websites created for Internet Explorer. The old JavaScript engine, which is part of this mode, has been abused in recent attacks, and Microsoft will make it more difficult to enable IE Mode to counter these attacks.
https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Changes-to-Internet-Explorer-Mode-in-Microsoft-Edge/

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 13th, 2025: More Oracle Patches; Sonicwall Compromisses; Unpatched Gladinet; 7-Zip Patches Oct 12, 2025

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New Oracle E-Business Suite Patches
Oracle released one more patch for the e-business suite. Oracle does not state if it is already exploited, but the timing of the patch suggests that it should be expedited.
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61884.html
Widespread Sonicwall SSLVPN Compromise
Huntress Labs observed the widespread compromise of the Sonicwall SSLVPN appliance.
https://www.huntress.com/blog/sonicwall-sslvpn-compromise
Active Exploitation of Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox Local File Inclusion Flaw (CVE-2025-11371)
An unpatched vulnerability in the secure file sharing solutions Gladinet CentreStack and TrioFox is being exploited.
https://www.huntress.com/blog/gladinet-centrestack-triofox-local-file-inclusion-flaw
Two 7-Zip Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-11002, CVE-2025-11001
7-Zip patched two vulnerabilities that may lead to arbitrary code execution
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-949/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-950/

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 10th, 2025: RedTail Defenses; SonicWall Breach; Crowdstrike “Issues”; Ivanti 0-days; Mapping Agentic Attack Surface (@sans_edu paper) Oct 10, 2025

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Building Better Defenses: RedTail Observations
Defending against attacks like RedTail is more then blocking IoCs, but instead one must focus on the techniques and tactics attackers use.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Guest+Diary+Building+Better+Defenses+RedTail+Observations+from+a+Honeypot/32312
Sonicwall: It wasn t the user s fault
Sonicwall admits to a breach resulting in the loss of user configurations stored in its cloud service
https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/mysonicwall-cloud-backup-file-incident/250915160910330
Crowdstrike has Issues
Crowdstrike fixes two vulnerabilities in the Windows version of its Falcon sensor.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/security-advisories/issues-affecting-crowdstrike-falcon-sensor-for-windows/
Interrogators: Attack Surface Mapping in an Agentic World
A SANS.edu master s degree student research paper by Michael Samson
https://isc.sans.edu/researchpapers/pdfs/michael_samson.pdf
keywords: ai; agentic; attack surface; crowdstrike; sonicwall; ivanti; zero day; initiative; redline

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 9th, 2025: Polymorphic Python; ssh ProxyCommand Vuln; Oct 09, 2025

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Polymorphic Python Malware
Xavier discovered self-modifying Python code on Virustotal. The remote access tool takes advantage of the inspect module to modify code on the fly.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Polymorphic%20Python%20Malware/32354
SSH ProxyCommand Vulnerability
A user cloning a git repository may be tricked into executing arbitrary code via the SSH proxycommand option.
https://dgl.cx/2025/10/bash-a-newline-ssh-proxycommand-cve-2025-61984
Framelink Figma MCP Server CVE-2025-53967
Framelink Figma s MCP server suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability.

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 8th, 2025: FreePBX Exploits; Disrupting Teams Threats; Kibana and QT SVG Patches Oct 08, 2025

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FreePBX Exploit Attempts (CVE-2025-57819)
A FreePBX SQL injection vulnerability disclosed in August is being used to execute code on affected systems.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Against%20FreePBX%20%28CVE-2025-57819%29%20with%20code%20execution./32350
Disrupting Threats Targeting Microsoft Teams
Microsoft published a blog post outlining how to better secure Teams.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/07/disrupting-threats-targeting-microsoft-teams/
Kibana XSS Patch CVE-2025-25009
Elastic patched a stored XSS vulnerability in Kibana
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-8-8-19-5-9-0-8-and-9-1-5-security-update-esa-2025-20/382449
QT SVG Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-10728, CVE-2025-10729,
The QT group fixed two vulnerabilities in the QT SVG module. One of the vulnerabilities may be used for code execution
https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-uncontrolled-recursion-and-use-after-free-vulnerabilities-in-qt-svg-module-impact-qt

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 7th, 2025: More About Oracle; Redis Vulnerability; GoAnywhere Exploited Oct 07, 2025

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More Details About Oracle 0-Day
The exploit is now widely distributed and has been analyzed to show the nature of the underlying vulnerabilities.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Quick%20and%20Dirty%20Analysis%20of%20Possible%20Oracle%20E-Business%20Suite%20Exploit%20Script%20%28CVE-2025-61882%29%20%5BUPDATED%5B/32346
https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/
Redis Vulnerability
Redis patched a ciritcal use after free vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/
GoAnywhere Bug Exploited
Microsoft is reporting about the exploitation of the recent GoAnywhere vulnerability
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/06/investigating-active-exploitation-of-cve-2025-10035-goanywhere-managed-file-transfer-vulnerability/

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 6th, 2025: Oracle 0-Day Oct 06, 2025

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Oracle E-Business Suite 0-Day CVE-2025-61882
Last week, the Cl0p ransomware gang sent messages to many businesses stating that an Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability was used to exfiltrate data. Initially, Oracle believed the root cause to be a vulnerability patched in June, but now Oracle released a patch for a new vulnerability.
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61882.html
Zimbra Exploit Analysis
An exploit against a Zimbra system prior to the patch release is analyzed. These exploits take advantage of .ics files to breach vulnerable systems.
https://strikeready.com/blog/0day-ics-attack-in-the-wild/
Unity Editor Vulnerability CVE-2025-59489
The Unity game editor suffered from a code execution vulnerablity that would also expose software developed with vulnerable versions
https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 3rd, 2025: More .well-known Scans; RedHat Openshift Patch; TOTOLINK Vuln; Oct 03, 2025

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More .well-known scans
Attackers are using API documentation automatically published in the .well-known directory for reconnaissance.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20.well-known%20Scans/32340
RedHat Patches Openshift AI Services
A flaw was found in Red Hat Openshift AI Service. A low-privileged attacker with access to an authenticated account, for example, as a data scientist using a standard Jupyter notebook, can escalate their privileges to a full cluster administrator.
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-10725#cve-affected-packages
TOTOLINK X6000R Vulnerabilities
Paloalto released details regarding three recently patched vulnerabilities in TotalLink-X6000R routers.
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/totolink-x6000r-vulnerabilities/
DrayOS Vulnerability Patched
Draytek fixed a single memory corruption vulnerability in its Vigor series router. An unauthenticated user may use it to execute arbitrary code.
https://www.draytek.com/about/security-advisory/use-of-uninitialized-variable-vulnerabilities

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 2nd, 2025: Honeypot Passwords; OneLogin Vuln; Breaking Intel SGX; OpenSSL Patch Oct 02, 2025

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Comparing Honeypot Passwords with HIBP
Most passwords used against our honeypots are also found in the Have I been pwn3d list. However, the few percent that are not found tend to be variations of known passwords, extending them to find likely mutations.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Comparing%20Honeypot%20Passwords%20with%20HIBP/32310
Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Inspection
By observing read and write operations to memory, it is possible to derive keys stored in SGX and break the security of systems relying on SGX.
https://wiretap.fail/files/wiretap.pdf
OneLogin OIDC Vulnerability
A vulnerability in OneLogin can be used to read secret application keys
https://www.clutch.security/blog/onelogin-many-secrets-clutch-uncovers-vulnerability-exposing-client-credentials
OpenSSL Patch
OpenSSL patched three vulnerabilities. One could lead to remote code execution, but the feature is used infrequently, and the exploit is difficult, according to OpenSSL

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