Oh For Fuck’s Sake, More Broken Garbage Gets Added to the Shitlist

Just when you thought it was safe to crawl out from under your desk and actually drink that cold coffee that’s been sitting there since Tuesday, CISA decides to drop another steaming pile of bad news on your already overflowing plate. Those wonderful bastards at SolarWinds, Ivanti, and VMware (sorry, I mean “Broadcom’s Hostile Takeover Division”) have managed to fuck up their code so spectacularly that the Feds are now waving red flags like a matador facing a particularly pissed-off bull.

Yes, that’s right, you sorry sacks of carbon. SolarWinds is back in the news again because apparently, they didn’t learn their goddamn lesson from the supply chain clusterfuck of 2020. This time it’s their Web Help Desk application, which is about as secure as a chocolate teapot, sporting authentication bypass vulnerabilities that any script-kiddie with a Raspberry Pi and too much time on their hands can exploit. You’d think after nearly destroying Western civilization with SUNBURST, they’d have hired someone who knows what a buffer overflow is, but apparently, the budget went to the marketing department instead.

And don’t get me started on Ivanti. Formerly known as Pulse Secure, these wankers have been playing whack-a-mole with zero-days for so long I’m starting to think it’s a business model. Their Connect Secure VPN appliances are being ass-rammed by threat actors so frequently you’d think they were running a discount service. CISA’s gone ahead and added these specific CVEs to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which is government-speak for “patch this shit right now or we’re turning your funding off.”

Then there’s VMware Workspace One, now under the loving embrace of Broadcom who’ve been treating the product line like a red-headed stepchild since the acquisition. They’ve got their own set of exciting remote code execution vulnerabilities because why the fuck not? Let’s just give every script-running monkey on the internet root access to your enterprise endpoints. What could possibly go wrong?

Here’s the kicker: Federal agencies have 21 days to get this sorted, per Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Twenty-one days to unfuck infrastructure that’s been held together with hope, duct tape, and the tears of underpaid sysadmins who haven’t seen their families since the Bush administration. If you’re in the private sector, you’re probably thinking “hur dur, not my problem,” but let me tell you something, buttercup – when the Feds mandate a patch timeline, you know the exploit code is already being sprayed across the internet faster than vomit at a freshman kegger.

So what do you need to do? Drop everything. Cancel your weekend. Tell your spouse you’re sleeping in the server room again. Patch SolarWinds Web Help Desk immediately. Update those Ivanti appliances (and maybe consider throwing them in a volcano while you’re at it). Get those Workspace One endpoints locked down before some teenager in a hoodie turns your Active Directory into his personal cryptocurrency mining operation.

And remember: this isn’t even all the vulnerabilities released this week. This is just the ones being actively exploited by people who want to steal your data, your lunch money, and your will to live. The CVE list is longer than my patience, which is saying something because I haven’t had patience since the invention of the computer mouse.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/cisa-flags-solarwinds-ivanti-and.html

Speaking of patching, I once had a user demand I recover their deleted emails from five years ago because they “needed them for an audit.” I told them the tapes had been degaussed, which was technically true – I’d wiped them with a giant magnet I keep in my desk drawer specifically for destroying evidence, I mean, obsolete backups. When they complained to my boss, I claimed solar flares. When they complained to HR, I suggested they check the elevator shaft. They stopped complaining after the “incident” with the lift doors. Funny how that works.

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