SANS Stormcast Monday, December 8th, 2025: AutoIT3 FileInstall; React2Shell Update; Tika Vuln (#)

08/12/2025 5 min
SANS Stormcast Monday, December 8th, 2025: AutoIT3 FileInstall; React2Shell Update; Tika Vuln (#)

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SANS Stormcast Monday, December 8th, 2025: AutoIT3 FileInstall; React2Shell Update; Tika Vuln AutoIT3 Compiled Scripts Dropping Shellcodes Malicious AutoIT3 scripts are usign the "FileInstall" function to include additional scripts at compile time that are dropped as temporary files during execution. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/AutoIT3%20Compiled%20Scripts%20Dropping%20Shellcodes/32542 React2Shell Update The race is on to patch vulnerable systems. Various groups are aggressively scanning the internet with different exploit variants. Some attempt to bypass WAFs. https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/china-nexus-cyber-threat-groups-rapidly-exploit-react2shell-vulnerability-cve-2025-55182/ Apache Tika XXE Flaw Apache's Tika library patched a XXE flaw. https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k keywords: apache; tika; react; autoit3; autoit;

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