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advisory ID: ADV-2025-ALL-05
date issued: 14 May 2025
severity: Critical (CVE-2025-29966), High (CVE-2025-30397)
CVSs scores:

CVSS Base Score: 9.8 CRITICAL 

A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, has been identified in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS), Pulse Connect Secure (PCS), Ivanti Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. This stack-based buffer overflow allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. The flaw is currently being actively exploited by a suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group, UNC5221, to deploy custom malware families, TRAILBLAZE and BRUSHFIRE, facilitating persistent access and deep network intrusion.

Next.js is a popular development library for web developers. In the authentication section of the library in affected versions, there is a vulnerability which would allow an attacker to bypass authentication, potentially gaining access to sensitive data or maninpulating targeted accounts. 

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-23120, has been discovered in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). This flaw allows authenticated domain users to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.9, indicating its critical severity. 

Overview: 

MITRE Caldera is an open-source cyber security platform designed for automating adversary emulation, red teaming, and threat hunting. It allows security teams to simulate real-world cyber threats, test defences, and improve incident response. 

CVE-2025-21298 is a critical vulnerability present in the windows OLE that enables a remote code execution with a CVSS severity of 9.8. Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a proprietary technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and objects.

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