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Notepad++ Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144)

    Service Advisory  A recently discovered Notepad++ vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144) allows attackers to gain system-level privileges. Severity level: CVSS Score: 7.3/High Description: Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Notepad++ v8.8.1 installer that allows unprivileged users to gain SYSTEM-level privileges through insecure executable search paths. An […]

Notepad++ Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144)

    Service Advisory  A recently discovered Notepad++ vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144) allows attackers to gain system-level privileges. Severity level: CVSS Score: 7.3/High Description: Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Notepad++ v8.8.1 installer that allows unprivileged users to gain SYSTEM-level privileges through insecure executable search paths. An […]

Linux Vulnerability (CVE-2025-6019)

    Service Advisory  A recently discovered Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2025-6019) enables attackers to gain root privileges on most Linux distributions. Severity level:  CVSS Score: 7/High Description: The libblockdev library is used for low-level operations with block devices (e.g., hard disks) in Linux. The CVE-2025-6019 vulnerability is exploited by accessing the udisks2 daemon (used to […]

WordPress Emergency Maintenaince

    Service Advisory   COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY   Please share the following with your technical teams. Service Maintenance: WordPress Emergency maintenaince – June 9th   Maintenance window: Start Date/Time: Monday June 9, 2025 9:00 a.m.  End Date/Time:  Monday June 9, 2025 10:00 a.m.   Impact/Details: Emergency change to the caching mechanism for our older central wordpress (*.blog.yorku, *.info.yorku, *.research.yorku) […]

Service Advisory - Scheduled Maintenance for MyApps - Wednesday June 18, 2025 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

    Service Advisory  Please share the following with your teams. Service Maintenance: MyApps Scheduled Maintenance Window: Start: Wednesday June 18, 2025 6:00 a.m. End: Wednesday June 18, 2025 8:00 a.m.   Impact/Details: MyApps service will continue to be online, however please expect a service degradation during the scheduled maintenance. UIT teams will upgrade MyApps – AppsAnywhere and Cloudpaging service to […]

Service Advisory Unified Print Management - Thursday May 29, 2025 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    Service Advisory  Please share the following with your teams. Service Maintenance: Unified Print Management   Scheduled Maintenance Window: Start: Thursday May 29, 2025 3:30 p.m. End: Thursday May 29, 2025 4:30 p.m.   Impact/Details: Service maintenance is necessary to address a known security issue with the Web Print service. We do not anticipate any […]

Service Advisory - Scheduled Maintenance for MyApps - Friday June 20, 2025 1:00 a.m. - 3:30 a.m.

    Service Advisory  Please share the following with your technical teams. Service Maintenance: MyApps Scheduled Maintenance Window: Start: Friday June 20, 2025 1:00 a.m. End: Friday June 20, 2025 3:30 a.m. Impact/Details: MyApps service will continue to be online, however please expect a service degradation of the Remote Delivery service during the scheduled maintenance. UIT teams will […]

Service Advisory - YU Learn Maintenance Outage – Tuesday May 20, 2025 between 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

    Service Advisory  Please share the following with your teams.   Scheduled Outage:   YU Learn service (https://yulearn.yorku.ca)   Scheduled Date/Time of Service Outage:   Start: Tuesday May 20, 2025 9:00 a.m.  End: Tuesday May 20, 2025 11:00 a.m.       Details and Impact:   UIT will be conducting maintenance on the server and YU Learn's back-end database. […]

Service Advisory - SmartBuy - from Friday May 23, 2025 7:00 p.m. - Monday May 26, 202511:00 p.m.

Service Advisory  Please share the following with your teams. Service Maintenance: SmartBuy (Jaggaer) maintenance Please note that Jaggaer will be doing production maintenance Outage window: Start Date/Time: Friday May 23, 2025 @ 19:00 EST (7:00 p.m.) End Date/Time:  Monday, May 26, 2025 @ 23:00 EST (11:00 p.m.)     Impact/Details: SmartBuy production will not be […]

Service Advisory - Information message added to YU LEARN

  Service Advisory   Please share the following with your teams.   Service Maintenance: YU LEARN - adding information message to course registration page During the outage we will be adding an informational message to course registration pages to alert users to an intermittent issue that may affect their registration. It will provide information about the […]