security-advisories

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2023/02/17 Date of First Release: 17th February 2023 Source: CISCO Software Affected:  ClamAV: 0.103.8,0.105.2 and 1.0.1 Overview: Cisco has rolled out security updates to address a critical flaw reported in the ClamAV open source antivirus engine that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices. This vulnerability could allow attackers to …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2022/08/17 Date of First Release: 17th August 2022 Source: Zimbra Software Affected:  Zimbra  8.8.15  and 9.0 Overview: Zimbra is affected by two high severity vulnerabilities ( CVSS score 7.2) due to weakness in Zimbra Collaboration, both of which could be chained to allow unauthenticated remote code execution on the affected email servers. …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/12/14 Date of First Release: 14th December 2021 Source: Apache Software Affected: All versions of Log4j from 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1 Overview Apache Log4j between versions log4j 2.0 to 2.14.1 are vulnerable to unauthenticated arbitrary code execution. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to run malicious code on the affected machine. Description Log4j …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/12/01 Date of First Release: 01st December 2021 Source: HP Software Affected: HP Color LaseJet Enterprise, HP OfficeJet Enterprise and HP ScanJet Enterprise 8500 FN1 firmware. Overview Two vulnerabilities, namely CVE-2021-39238 and CVE-2021-39237, exists in HP multi-function printers (MFPs)  products. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control of …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/10/06 Date of First Release: 06th October 2021 Source: Apache Software Affected: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 Overview The vulnerability exists in the Apache web servers running version 2.4.49. The exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the expected document root. …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/08/31 Date of First Release: 31st August 2021 Source: Microsoft Software Affected:  Azure Cosmos DB  Overview: The vulnerability exists in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook feature. The exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a user to gain access to another customer’s resources by using the account’s primary read-write key. Description: The vulnerability …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/08/24 Date of First Release: 24th August 2021 Source: Microsoft Software Affected:  Microsoft Exchange Server 2019Microsoft Exchange Server 2016Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Overview: Microsoft Exchange Server contains remote code execution vulnerabilities as a result of improper input validation. Exploitation attempts leverage the latest line of “ProxyShell” Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. Description: Vulnerabilities exist in a way Microsoft Exchange Servers …

Advisory No: TZCERT/SA/2021/07/01 Date of First Release: 01st July 2021 Source: Microsoft Software Affected:  Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Overview: Vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows Print Spooler service due to failure in restricting access to the RpcAddPrinterDriverEx() function,  which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a …

Tanzania Computer Emergency Response Team (TZ-CERT), established under Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), is aware of a cyber-attack targeting organizations with Critical Information Infrastructure (CII). The threat actors are reported to use a new variant of ransomware referred to as “DarkSide” to lock down computer systems and ask the victims …

Tanzania Computer Emergency Response Team (TZ-CERT), established under Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), is aware of the multiple vulnerabilities being capitalized by threat actors to attack Microsoft Exchange Servers. A successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Exchange Servers, thereby gaining …