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CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Ghost (Cring) Ransomware ↗ source

February 19, 2025 CISA Alert
Co-sealed by: CISA, FBI, MS-ISAC

Summary

Today, CISA—in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory, #StopRansomware: Ghost (Cring) Ransomware . This advisory provides network defenders with indicators of compromise (IOCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and detection methods associated with Ghost ransomware activity identified through FBI investigations. Ghost actors conduct these widespread attacks targeting and compromising organizations with outdated versions of software and firmware on their internet facing services. These malicious ransomware actors are known to use publicly available code to exploit Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) where available patches have not been applied to gain access to internet facing servers. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

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CVEs Referenced in This Publication

CVECVSSAffected
CVE-2010-2861 9.8 Critical Adobe ColdFusion A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the administrator console in Adobe ColdFusion which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.
CVE-2018-13379 9.1 Critical Fortinet FortiOS Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN web portal contains a path traversal vulnerability that may allow an unauthenticated attacker to download FortiOS system fil…
CVE-2021-34473 9.1 Critical Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution.
CVE-2021-34523 9.0 Critical Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
CVE-2021-31207 6.6 Medium Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for security feature bypass.
CVE-2009-3960 6.5 Medium Adobe BlazeDS Adobe BlazeDS, which is utilized in LifeCycle and Coldfusion, contains a vulnerability that allows for information disclosure.

Extracted from the publication text. Each CVE links to its tracked detail page.

Vendors Named in This Publication

Each vendor links to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog page. Only vendors that appear in the KEV catalog are listed, either because the publication cites one of their KEV entries or because it names them directly.