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Cisco scrambling to fix a remote-code-execution problem in WebEx

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Cisco’s Webex Browser Extension contain a critical bug that can open up customers’ entire computers to remote code execution attacks if the browsers visit websites containing specially crafted malicious code.

The company says it is in the process of correcting the problem, and has apparently made a few initial steps toward a permanent fix. It says there is no workaround available.

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Severe vulnerability in Cisco’s WebEx extension for Chrome leaves PCs open to easy attack

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Anyone who uses the popular Cisco WebEx extension for Chrome should update to the latest version pronto. Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy recently discovered a serious vulnerability in the Chrome extension that leaves PCs wide open to attack.

In older versions of the extension (before version 1.0.3) malicious actors could add a “magic string” to a web address or file hosted on a website. The magic string was designed to remotely activate the WebEx browser extension. Once the extension was activated the bad guys could execute malicious code on the target machine. 

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Cisco Patches WebEx App for Android, Warns of Unpatched Flaws – Threatpost

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Cisco Patches WebEx App for Android, Warns of Unpatched Flaws
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Cisco has been busy the last two days pushing out a patch and security advisories for a number of its products, including a fix for a remotely exploitable vulnerability in its WebEx Meetings mobile application for Android. Cisco said the vulnerability …
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