Follina - The Newest and Most Dangerous Zero Day Vulnerability
The world of cyber security is flooded with vulnerabilities. Some are rated as critical, some moderate and some just informational. Usually the critical vulnerabilities have the potential to gain access to the root user of the target victim machine and then perform malicious activities. The blue team of cyber security works continuously on patching these vulnerabilities to minimize the damage. But every so often such dangerous vulnerabilities come up that shake the core of the technical world and prove a tedious task to get patched. Today we are going to look at one such vulnerability which was recently discovered and had the potential to do really scary stuff. Let's take a look at Follina, CVE-2022-30190, any victims worst nightmare… Zero Day Vulnerability Before we move on to the actual vulnerability let’s understand what a zero day vulnerability is. Basically any vulnerability that is disclosed to the entire world, but not yet patched is known as a zero day vulnerability. That