The PHP project recently announced two critical security vulnerabilities. You can read more about these on their website: https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5 Impact CFEngine Enterprise Hub uses PHP and is assumed to be affected by these vulnerabilities. With the limited information …
Is the antivirus on your servers working correctly right now? Installing ClamAV takes a single command. The hard part is keeping it running on all servers, since freshclam fails without indicating a problem, cron jobs disappear, and no one notices until an audit. The new ClamAV module deals with …
Disclaimer: This post focuses on Debian-based and Fedora/RHEL-based distributions and packaging. Everybody using a GNU/Linux distribution most likely knows that packages used by the given distribution are somehow signed and such signatures are somehow verified. Usually, this knowledge comes with the …
We are writing to inform you of a recently discovered security issue in the CFEngine Enterprise web UI, Mission Portal. The issue has been fixed in the recently released 3.21.6 and 3.24.1 versions. Prior versions (3.24.0, 3.21.5, and below) are affected. We have no indications of this issue being …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.25.0! The code word for this release is auditability. Being a non-LTS (not supported) release, this release allows users to test the new functionality we’ve been working on before it arrives in an LTS release ~1 year from now. …
Within the configuration management space, people often distinguish between agent-based and agent-less approaches. In short, an agent-based solution means that you install a software agent to run in the background / periodically on the system. That software agent then makes changes to the system as …
The rather serious recent OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2024-6387 could affect as many as 14 million server instances exposed on the internet. Let’s make it easy to examine your infrastructure and see if you need to do any upgrades or mitigations. On the back of my CFEngine T-shirt it says: Know …
Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) are an excellent body of knowledge to leverage in securing your infrastructure. With the stig-rhel-7 module you can easily add inventory and remediation policy for RHEL 7 with CFEngine. Do note that as of March 2024 this module does not provide …
Having a list of software that is allowed to be installed on a host is a strategy to prevent and fix security gaps and maintain compliance with operational guidelines. This zero-trust methodology ensures that only explicitly permitted applications are allowed to be present on a host unlike package …
Can you trust the integrity of your base operating system runtime? Jason Rogers and Dr. Wesley Peck of Invary join Cody, Craig and Nick to chat about their Runtime Integrity technology. They discuss the challenges of Trust, Information Technology Knowledge Management, and how Invary fits in the …
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