This article covers the week prior’s vulnerabilities found to be actively exploited. They are categorised based not only on the category of exploitation, but their impact, and versions affected. This article also informs on any official fix and remediation guidance for the listed vulnerabilities.

Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, ASA) is Cisco’s line of network security devices introduced in May 2005. Cisco ASA has become one of the most widely used firewall/VPN solutions for small to medium businesses. Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Virtual brings Cisco’s next-generation firewall functionalities to virtualized environments, enabling consistent security policies to follow workloads across your physical, virtual, and cloud environments, and between clouds.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems. Exchange Server primarily uses a proprietary protocol called MAPI to talk to email clients, but subsequently added support for POP3, IMAP, and EAS. The standard SMTP protocol is used to communicate to other Internet mail servers.