Patch Now: ServiceNow Critical RCE Bugs Under Active Exploit

A threat actor on BreachForums is claiming to have harvested email addresses and associated hashes from more than 105 ServiceNow databases after exploiting two recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in the cloud-based IT service management platform. Researchers from Resecurity's HUNTER threat team warned late last week that the two ServiceNow vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-4879, CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10; and CVE-2024-5217, CVSS score of 9.2) were being actively exploited in the wild, and said they saw the BreachForums member putting the data up for sale at $5,000 for the whole tranche. Meanwhile, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today added the two bugs to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog amid multiple reports of other attempts to exploit the flaws in recent days. Federal civilian executive branch agencies have until Aug. 19 to apply ServiceNow's patches, or to discontinue use of the platform until they can remediate the issue. Resecurity researchers said that the attacks on ServiceNow should be expected. "There has been identified chatter on multiple underground forums on the Dark Web highlighting threat actors seeking compromised access to IT service desks, corporate portals, and other enterprise systems that typically provide remote access to employees and contractors," they wrote. "These systems could be used for pre-positioning and attack planning, as well as reconnaissance." CVE-2024-4879 is an input validation vulnerability i...