Another company was caught in a cloud misconfiguration issue as Wegmans Food Markets notified its customers that two of its cloud databases were left open to potential outside access.
Allan Liska of Recorded Future’s computer security incident response team, lists out the reasons why security teams should take the six exploited vulnerabilities seriously.
Amazon Web Services System Manager misconfigurations led to the potential exposure of more than 5 million documents with personally identifiable information and credit card transactions on more than 3,000 SSM documents.
The five bugs, collectively cataloged as CVE-2021-21551, create privilege escalation and denial of service issues stemming from memory corruption, lack of authentication, and code logic flaws.