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Bleeping Computer
The Plex media streaming platform is sending password reset notices to many of its users in response to discovering unauthorized access to one of its databases. [...]
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Teleport. Thanks to the great team there for their support! You’re woken up at 3 am, only to discover your worst nightmare. The new intern just deleted the production database during routine maintenance by accident. You quickly restore from a backup. During the … Continue reading "“Who dropped the DB?” Find out with Teleport Database Access"
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Teleport. Thanks to the great team there for their support! You’re woken up at 3 am, only to discover your worst nightmare. The new intern just deleted the production database during routine maintenance by accident. You quickly restore from a backup. During the … Continue reading "Who dropped the DB? Find out with Teleport Database Access"
CISA advisories
View CSAF Summary Multiple SIMATIC WinCC versions are affected by a database privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user with access to the database to execute commands on the underlying host system. Siemens has released new versions for several affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. Siemens is preparing further fixes and recommends mitigations for products where fixes are not or not yet available. The following versions of Siemens WinCC are affected: SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 vers:all/* (CVE-2026-59241) SIMATIC WinCC V8.0 vers:intdot/<8.0.0.11 (CVE-2026-59241) SIMATIC WinCC V8.1 vers:intdot/<8.1.7 (CVE-2026-59241) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 8.8 Siemens SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 1 Vulnerability Incorrect Privilege Assignment Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Transportation Systems, Energy, Healthcare and Public Health, Financial Services, Government Services and Facilities Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Germany Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-59241 The affected application does not sufficiently restrict the permissions assigned to a database role. This could allow an authenticated remote attacker with database access to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the host system where SIMATIC WinCC is installed, potentially leading to a compromise of the system. Read More 3 Affected Products SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 Product Status: known_affected Remediations None availableCurrently no fix is available SIMATIC WinCC V8.0 < V8.0 Update 11 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fixUpdate to V8.0 Update 11 or later version SIMATIC WinCC V8.1 < V8.1 Update 7 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fixUpdate to V8.1 Update 7 or later version Additional Metrics Relevant CWE: CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H View CVE Details Acknowledgments Siemens ProductCERT reported this vulnerability to CISA. General Recommendations As a general security measure, Siemens strongly recommends to protect network access to devices with appropriate mechanisms. In order to operate the devices in a protected IT environment, Siemens recommends to configure the environment according to Siemens' operational guidelines for Industrial Security (Download: https://www.siemens.com/cert/operational-guidelines-industrial-security), and to follow the recommendations in the product manuals. Additional information on Industrial Security by Siemens can be found at: https://www.siemens.com/industrialsecurity Additional Resources For further inquiries on security vulnerabilities in Siemens products and solutions, please contact the Siemens ProductCERT: https://www.siemens.com/cert/advisories Terms of Use The use of Siemens Security Advisories is subject to the terms and conditions listed on: https://www.siemens.com/productcert/terms-of-use. Recommended Practices CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities. Minimize network exposure for all control system devices and/or systems, ensuring they are not accessible from the internet. Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolating them from business networks. When remote access is required, use more secure methods, such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), recognizing VPNs may have vulnerabilities and should be updated to the most current version available. Also recognize VPN is only as secure as the connected devices. CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures. CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies. CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets. Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B--Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies. Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents. Advisory Conversion Disclaimer This ICSA is a verbatim republication of Siemens ProductCERT SSA-550198 from a direct conversion of the vendor's Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) advisory. This is republished to CISA's website as a means of increasing visibility and is provided "as-is" for informational purposes only. CISA is not responsible for the editorial or technical accuracy of republished advisories and provides no warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within this advisory. Further, CISA does not endorse any commercial product or service. Please contact Siemens ProductCERT directly for any questions regarding this advisory. Revision History Initial Release Date: 2026-10-13 Date Revision Summary 2026-10-13 1 Publication Date 2026-10-22 2 Initial CISA Republication of Siemens ProductCERT SSA-550198 advisory Legal Notice and Terms of Use
The Hacker News
A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The
Bleeping Computer
On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced its worst outage in 6 years, blocking access to many websites and online platforms for almost 6 hours after a change to database access controls triggered a cascading failure across its Global Network. [...]
The Hacker News
Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated blind SQL injection. "A malicious user with network access may be able to use specially crafted SQL queries to gain database
The Register
Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…
The Register
Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…
The Hacker News
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it addressed a pair of issues with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. "By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexible Server authentication process for a replication user, a malicious user could leverage an improperly anchored regular expression to bypass