Zoho servers under attack

Updated on 2022-09-23: CISA Adds Critical Zoho Flaw to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Java deserialization vulnerability in Zoho ManageEngine products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The critical flaw affects ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus. CISA has given federal agencies until October 13 to mitigate the flaw.

Note

• Good news: the vendor updates are available; bad news: you need to roll them out quickly. Note that Sophos Firewalls are also on the list with a code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin functions which allow RCE.

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• CISA: Zoho ManageEngine RCE Bug Is Under Active Exploit
• Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
• CISA warns of critical ManageEngine RCE bug used in attacks

Overview: Zoho servers under attack

On Thursday, CISA said that it’s now seeing attacks against Zoho ManageEngine servers that are exploiting CVE-2022-35405, a vulnerability the company patched back in June this year. A PoC and technical write-up for this one has been floating around the internet since early August, so no surprise here that it’s now seeing active exploitation.

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• ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus remote code execution vulnerability
• CVE-2022-35405 Zoho Password Manager Pro XML-RPC RCE