SANS Stormcast Friday, April 25th: SMS Gateway Scans; Comvault Exploit; Patch Window Shrinkage; More inetpub issues; (#)

SANS Stormcast Friday, April 25th: SMS Gateway Scans; Comvault Exploit; Patch Window Shrinkage; More inetpub issues; Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways Attackers are actively scanning for SMS Gateways. These attacks take advantage of default passwords and other commonly used passwords. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Attacks%20against%20Teltonika%20Networks%20SMS%20Gateways/31888 Commvault Vulnerability CVE-2205-34028 Commvault, about a week ago, published an advisory and a fix for a vulnerability in its backup software. watchTowr now released a detailed writeup and exploit for the vulnerability https://labs.watchtowr.com/fire-in-the-hole-were-breaching-the-vault-commvault-remote-code-execution-cve-2025-34028/ Exploitation Trends Q1 2025 Vulncheck published a summary of exploitation trends, pointing out that about a quarter of vulnerabilities are exploited a day after a patch is made available. https://vulncheck.com/blog/exploitation-trends-q1-2025 inetpub directory issues The inetpub directory introduced by Microsoft in its April patch may lead to a denial of service against applying patches on Windows if an attacker can create a junction for that location pointing to an existing system binary like Notepad. https://doublepulsar.com/microsofts-patch-for-cve-2025-21204-symlink-vulnerability-introduces-another-symlink-vulnerability-9ea085537741 keywords: inetpub; vulncheck; patches; watchTowr; teltonika; sms