SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
Title: 40 high-severity vulnerabilities included in June’s Patch Tuesday
Description: Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. One of these vulnerabilities is considered critical, 40 are listed as high severity, and the remainder is considered "moderate." The most serious issue is CVE-2022-30136, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Network File System (NFS) service, version NFSv4.1, with a severity score of near-maximum 9.8. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability over the network by making an unauthenticated, specially crafted call to a Network File System (NFS) service to execute remote code. To mitigate this vulnerability, users are advised to disable the vulnerable version NFSV4.1 and restart the NFS server or reboot the machine. Microsoft SharePoint server contains a remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2022-30157, with a severity score of 8.8.
References: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/06/microsoft-patch-tuesday-for-june-2022.html
Snort SIDs: 59967, 59968, 59971 and 59972
Snort 3 SIDs: 300201 and 300202
Title: Symbiote malware can remain undetected on Linux machines
Description: A new Linux malware that can go undetected on infected machines is being used to target the financial sector in Latin America. Once the “Symbiote” malware infects the machine, it hides itself, making infections hard to detect. If successful, the malware provides a backdoor for the threat actor and allows them to log in as any user on the machine with a hardcoded password. They can also execute arbitrary code on the infected machine with the highest privileges. Because of its stealth, security researchers are unaware how widespread the campaign currently is and are unsure if it can even be detected by conventional security software.
References: https://therecord.media/linux-malware-symbiote-used-to-attack-latin-american-financial-sector/
Snort SIDs: 59957, 59958