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Vulnerabilities

Critical PHP Flaws Disclosed, Patches Out Now

The two flaws are CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and are said to affect PHP versions 5, 6, 7, and 8.

DENNIS FISHER · OCT 20 · 3 min
Vulnerabilities

Cisco Warns of Critical, Exploited Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Flaw

Cisco “strongly recommends” customers apply a patch for a critical API authentication bypass that’s being exploited.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 1 min
Intrusions

Inside the Citrix NetScaler Zero Day Saga

This case is yet another reminder just how important vendor communication is in such incidents and how much uncertainty can hamper security.

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
Vulnerabilities

Researchers Warn of Citrix NetScaler Exploitation

On Saturday, researchers from watchTowr Labs said they had credible information that attackers were exploiting an unknown RCE vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler boxes.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Vulnerabilities

F5 CVE-2026-94127 Targeted in Active Attacks

This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated remote code execution and shows how a missing bounds check—a classic programming error.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Vulnerabilities

MicroTik Routers Under Attack in New Campaign

Labeled “MikroTrick” by researchers at CERT Polska who discovered and disclosed six vulnerabilities in the software,  the campaign targets devices with SSH services reachable from the public internet

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Vulnerabilities

Critical Artifactory Bug Under Attack

CVE-2026-82329 is a simple authentication bypass that can allow an attacker to get admin privileges quite easily

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
Vulnerabilities

Unauthenticated RCE Chain Found For Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2026-55040 and CVE-2026-63520

The chain leverages two distinct vulnerabilities—an authentication bypass and an unsafe .NET type instantiation flaw—to provide full server control without valid credentials.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
AI

MLflow Bug Actively Exploited to Steal Credentials

This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to read sensitive data from internal network services or cloud metadata endpoints.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Vulnerabilities

Exploits Target N-able CVE-2026-18577 Flaw

The vulnerability, which effectively provides unauthenticated administrative access to the RMM console, stems from two related security issues

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Vulnerabilities

Critical SharePoint Bug Under Attack

The flaw (CVE-2026-50522) affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 and 2019 as well as SharePoint Subscription service. Microsoft released the fix for this vulnerability on July 14.

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
AI

Bug in Cursor Allows Simple RCE

This exploit occurs entirely in the background, requiring no user approval, dialogue prompts, or interaction.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
AI

Researchers Find New GhostApproval Bug in Many AI Coding Assistants

The bug is a modern twist on a Clinton-era piece of known Unix badness: following symbolic links.

Dennis Fisher · 4 min
Intrusions

Check Point VPN Flaw Targeted by Ransomware Actors

The vulnerability is a critical one and Check Point Research said that it’s likely that the actor targeting the bug is a financially motivated group.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Vulnerabilities

The Past is Always Present in Vulnerability Disclosure

Microsoft’s reaction to the Nightmare-Eclipse saga is raising memories of the worst days of the disclosure debate.

Dennis Fisher · 4 min
Supply Chain

New Dirty Frag Linux Bug Emerges

The vulnerability class is a potent new iteration of kernel bugs that corrupt the page cache of read-only files and is a follow-on to the recently disclosed Copy Fail Linux LPE bug.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto CVE-2026-0300 Actively Exploited

PAN released an advisory about the vulnerability on Tuesday and said it will release a patch in an upcoming version of PAN-OS.

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
AI

A Copy Fail FAQ

The latest branded bug is a slick, portable LPE in many Linux kernels going back to 2017.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min

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