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A routine container security scan for Princeton University Library's ImageCat Rails project has flagged multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in its software dependencies, revealing a latent security risk in a critical academic digital asset. The automated Trivy scan, which failed to pass, identified six distinct vulnerab...
A routine dependency update for the LDR platform has exposed a critical, actively exploitable vulnerability in its core PDF processing pipeline. The security patch addresses four GitHub security alerts, but one stands out: an XMP entity-expansion denial-of-service (DoS) flaw in the `pypdf` library (CVE via GHSA-3crg-w4...