CISA warns of Lanscope Endpoint Manager flaw exploited in attacks

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Motex Landscope Endpoint Manager. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-61932 and has a critical severity score of 9.3. It stems from improper verification of the origin of incoming requests, and could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system by sending specially crafted packets. Developed by Japanese firm Motex, a subsidiary of Kyocera Communication Systems, Lanscope Endpoint Manager is an endpoint management and security tool that provides unified control across desktop and mobile devices. The product is offered as an asset/endpoint management option through AWS (Amazon Web Services), and is particularly popular in Japan and Asia. A security bulletin from the vendor earlier this week highlights the urgent need to apply the latest updates, noting the increased risk for exploitation. “A vulnerability exists in the Endpoint Manager On-Premises client program (hereafter referred to as MR) and the Detection Agent (hereafter referred to as DA) that allows remote code execution,” Motex announced (machine translated). The company confirmed that some customer environments had already received malicious packets, indicating that the vulnerability has been exploited as a zero-day. “Furthermore, there have already been confirmed cases in customer environments where unauthorized packets were received from external sources,”...