Each week our security team tracks threats, vulnerabilities, and patches announced by leading IT experts and vendors to ensure we prioritize and address them for our managed IT services clients. If you're not a client, make sure your team knows about these security events from October 2021, as well as future ones.

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High Impact

Source Product Type
AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver Patches for security vulnerabilities
Microsoft NTLM Relay Mitigation advice for PetitPotam attacks 
ManageEngine ADManager Plus Security fix for critical vulnerability
VMware n/a Security update

 

Medium Impact

Source Product Type
FBI n/a Indicators of compromise associated with Hive ransomware
Google Chrome Security updates
Intel Multiple Multiple security updates
Microsoft Multiple Mitigation advice and workarounds for zero-day threat CVE-2021-40444

 

Low Impact

Source Product Type
Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Security updates
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Update for remote code execution (RCE) and server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities
Microsoft Multiple Security updates (Aug 2021)
Microsoft Multiple Security updates (Sep 2021)
Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird  Security updates
Pulse Secure Secure Connect Security update
Cisco Multiple Security Updates
Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR Security updates
Adobe Multiple Security Updates 
Apple Multiple Security Update to Address CVE-2021-30883
Microsoft Multiple Security Updates (October 2021)
Google Chrome  v95.0.4638.54 for Windows, Mac, and Linux

 

No Impact

Source Product Type
Apple iOS and iPadOS 14.8 Security updates
Citrix ShareFile Storage Zones Controller Security update
Drupal n/a Multiple security updates
FBI-CISA-CGCYBER ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Advisory on advanced persistent threat (APT) exploitation of vulnerability
Fortinet FortiManager SD-WAN Orchestrator Patch for improper access control vulnerability
Microsoft Azure Linux Open Mgt Infrastructure Security update
SAP Multiple Security updates (Sep 2021)
WordPress WordPress Security update
CISA/NSA Multiple Guidance on Selecting and Hardening VPNs
Apache HTTP Servers Security update
Apache Server Address vulnerabilities under exploitation
CISA Multiple Security Advisory Honeywell Experion and ACE Controllers
CISA n/a Advisory remote users
Juniper Networks Multiple Security Updates
NSA Multiple Guidance on Avoiding the Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates and ALPACA Techniques
U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems Sector Facilities Ongoing Cyber Threats
Apache Tomcat (multiple versions) Security advisory to address vulnerability
Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software Security updates to address vulnerability
GPSD  v3.20 (Dec 31, 2019) through v3.22 (Jan 8, 2021) GPS Daemon (GPSD) bug
Oracle Multiple Critical patch update (October 2021) to address vulnerabilities 

 

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