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The IRIS web application contains a weakness where an attacker can misuse it to redirect the user to a malicious website controlled by an attacker. Read More
GoAnywhere MFT before 7.10.0 is affected by an HTML injection vulnerability in its email templating functionality. If an attacker is able to influence the content of a template variable, malicious HTML can be embedded into outgoing emails generated by the application. As these messages originate from a trusted system, the vulnerability may facilitate phishing and other social-engineering attacks. The issue arises from insufficient HTML encoding of untrusted input before inclusion in HTML email content. Read More
LibreChat version 0.8.1-rc2 uses the same JWT secret for the user session mechanism and RAG API which compromises the service-level authentication of the RAG API. ... Read More
Checkmk in versions before 2.4.0p22 and 2.3.0p43 is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability when used in a distributed monitoring setup. Any connected remote site can inject JavaScript code in the central site's user interface. ... Read More
Suprema’s BioStar 2 in version 2.9.11.6 allows users to set new password without providing the current one. Exploiting this flaw combined with other vulnerabilities can lead to unauthorized account access and potential system compromise. ... Read More
LibreChat version 0.8.1-rc2 is prone to a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability due to missing restrictions of the Actions feature in the default configuration. This allows attackers to interact with arbitrary third-party HTTP services, for example the internal RAG API. ... Read More
Checkmk in versions before 2.4.0p14 and 2.3.0p39, as well as in branches 2.2.0, 2.1.0 and 2.0.0 is prone to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when used in a distributed monitoring setup. Any connected remote site can inject JavaScript code in the central site's user interface. ... Read More
Vulnerability Overview The `win_license` plugin as included in Checkmk agent for Windows versions before 2.4.0p13, 2.3.0p38 and 2.2.0p46, as well as since version 2.1.0b2 and 2.0.0p28 allows low privileged users to escalate privileges to Local System due to insecure use of a temporary folder. Recommended… Read More
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞