Unauthorized access to other services and data could be achieved by threat actors through the exploitation of the new "ConfusedFunction" privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Functions service.
Cisco has issued patches for a maximum severity flaw impacting its Smart Software Manager On-Prem license servers and older installations of SSM On-Prem, also known as Cisco Smart Software Manager Satellite.
An accidentally exposed GitHub authentication token enabled possible infiltration of GitHub repositories for the Python programming language, which could open the potential for significant software supply chain attacks.
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