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CISA flags a vulnerability as "used by ransomware" only when a campaign is confirmed. These are flaws extortion groups have already exploited: fixing them first removes the most concrete risk.

361
CVEs used by ransomware · 21% of the KEV catalog
3
added in the last 90 days
173
critical
133
victims posted (30 days)
408
groups tracked

Most active groups (30 days)

Victims posted on leak sites, according to ransomware.live. Victim names are not displayed.

GroupVictimsLast activity
N0n 41 19h
qilin 14 8h
Wallstreet 13 1d
akira 6 10h
interlock 6 3d
iah6477 6 10h
play 5 2d
lockbit5 3 1d
AuditTeam 3 2d
Dark Project 3 3d
Emperador 3 15h
everest 3 2d

Most affected countries (30 days)

  • United States29
  • Sweden10
  • Brazil9
  • South Korea9
  • United Kingdom6
  • Singapore4
  • India4
  • Spain3
  • Germany3
  • Japan3

Most affected sectors (30 days)

  • Transportation28
  • Professional Services21
  • Healthcare13
  • Manufacturing12
  • Other11
  • Technology10
  • Retail & E-Commerce9
  • Agriculture and Food Production4
  • Energy & Utilities4
  • Financial Services3

Groups and the CVEs they exploit

clop 5akira 3alphv 3conti 3hive 3play 3medusa 2vicesociety 2atomsilo 1blackbyte 1blackshadow 1BrainCipher 1esxiargs 1frag 1handala 1icefire 1incransom 1karma 1lockbit 1maze 1nightsky 1nightspire 1nokoyawa 1revil 1reynolds 1underground 1

CVEs used in ransomware campaigns

Severity
Clear

9 result(s)

CVE-2023-46604 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 93 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-502 Oct 27, 2023
Apache ActiveMQ Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
The Java OpenWire protocol marshaller is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker with network access to either a Java-based OpenWire broker or client to run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol to cause either the client or the broker (respectively) to instantiate any class on the classpath. Users are recommended to upgrade both brokers and clients to version 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, or 5.18.3 which fixes this issue.
CVE-2021-45046 Critical · 9.0 KEV Urgent · 90 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-917 Dec 14, 2021
Apache Log4j2 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with either a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}) or a Thread Context Map pattern (%X, %mdc, or %MDC) to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in an information leak and remote code execution in some environments and local code execution in all environments. Log4j 2.16.0 (Java 8) and 2.12.2 (Java 7) fix this issue by removing support for message lookup patterns and disabling JNDI functionality by default.
CVE-2017-12615 High · 8.1 KEV Urgent · 78 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-434 Sep 19, 2017
Apache Tomcat on Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
When running Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.79 on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default to false) it was possible to upload a JSP file to the server via a specially crafted request. This JSP could then be requested and any code it contained would be executed by the server.
CVE-2018-1273 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 77 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-94 Apr 11, 2018
VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons Property Binder Vulnerability
Spring Data Commons, versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property binder vulnerability caused by improper neutralization of special elements. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources or using Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding hat can lead to a remote code execution attack.
CVE-2021-44228 Critical · 10.0 KEV Urgent · 100 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-20 Dec 10, 2021
Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled. From log4j 2.15.0, this behavior has been disabled by default. From version 2.16.0 (along with 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1), this functionality has been completely removed. Note that this vulnerability is specific to log4j-core and does not affect log4net, log4cxx, or other Apache Logging Services projects.
CVE-2021-40438 Critical · 9.0 KEV Urgent · 83 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-918 Sep 16, 2021
Apache HTTP Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
A crafted request uri-path can cause mod_proxy to forward the request to an origin server choosen by the remote user. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.48 and earlier.
CVE-2017-5638 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 93 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-755 Mar 10, 2017
Apache Struts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.
CVE-2021-41773 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 93 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-22 Oct 5, 2021
Apache HTTP Server Path Traversal Vulnerability
A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives. If files outside of these directories are not protected by the usual default configuration "require all denied", these requests can succeed. If CGI scripts are also enabled for these aliased pathes, this could allow for remote code execution. This issue is known to be exploited in the wild. This issue only affects Apache 2.4.49 and not earlier versions. The fix in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was found to be incomplete, see CVE-2021-42013.
CVE-2021-42013 Critical · 9.8 KEV Urgent · 93 Public exploit Ransomware CWE-22 Oct 7, 2021
Apache HTTP Server Path Traversal Vulnerability
It was found that the fix for CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was insufficient. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives. If files outside of these directories are not protected by the usual default configuration "require all denied", these requests can succeed. If CGI scripts are also enabled for these aliased pathes, this could allow for remote code execution. This issue only affects Apache 2.4.49 and Apache 2.4.50 and not earlier versions.

Sources: CISA KEV (knownRansomwareCampaignUse field) and ransomware.live (groups, TTPs and victim counts). The absence of a KEV flag does not mean a flaw is not used by ransomware.