A Hacktron researcher argues that AI-assisted vulnerability research is rapidly widening the enterprise attack surface. He cites recent breaches at Vercel and GitHub and a wave of critical CVEs in F5, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and ImageMagick. According to the author, the Vercel compromise began with a breach of the AI platform Context.a…
The Hakai Yokai Research Team disclosed CVE-2026-12191, an insecure deserialization flaw (CWE-502) in openpilot, the open-source Level 2 driver assistance system from comma.ai that supports over 275 vehicle models. The modeld process calls Python pickle.load() / pickle.loads() on model and metadata files with no validation, signature or h…
F5 Labs analyzed exploitation of CVE-2026-24423, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail (CWE-306). CISA added it to the KEV catalog on February 2, 2026 and notes it has been used in ransomware campaigns. Despite public write-ups, F5 sensors saw only one IP, 193.24.123.58 (ASN 200593, Russian ISP …
Microsoft released updates for at least 974 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, its largest Patch Tuesday ever. The previous record was 570 fixes in July. The 2026 total now exceeds 2,600, more than double the 2020 record year (1,245), with three months still to go. Microsoft and other large vendors, including Adobe, Cisco, Goo…
Researchers at AI pen-testing startup Xbow used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome into a full-chain exploit that executes code outside the browser sandbox on Windows. Xbow estimates about one billion users could be affected. Google fixed all three flaws and paid a $250,000 bounty, its…
Researcher Quentin Kaiser presented at Hexacon a vulnerability in Broadcom's proprietary 802.11 implementation, present in its SDK since at least 2010, that gives an attacker within Wi-Fi range unauthenticated remote code execution on affected routers without the network key or WPS enrollment. An incomplete patch was silently released in …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser (QTNKSR) disclosed a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It allows an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to disclose memory and execute code, including as root, on vulnerable routers. The attacker does not need the Wi-Fi password, network membership or a co…
Drupal published an advisory on October 14, 2026 for CVE-2026-108097, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Field UI module (fieldui) of Drupal core. The advisory gives it a risk score of 19/25, with basic attack complexity, no authentication required, and full confidentiality and integrity impact. Drupal core alone is not…
F5 released out-of-band security patches for multiple NGINX flaws, including three critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-15176 and CVE-2026-97205 in the ngxhttpv3module, and CVE-2026-93479 in the NGINX map directive. Unprivileged remote attackers can exploit them against systems with non-default configurations to cause denial of service or, …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16 an unauthenticated memory-corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It lets an attacker within radio range execute code as root on affected routers, with no Wi-Fi password or pairing step. Kaiser demonstrated working exploits against Belgian ISP gateways: th…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1334, published 16 October 2026, reports multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Some of them allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges and cause a remote denial of service. Other listed impacts are data integrity and confidentiality …
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1332, published 16 October 2026, reports multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft products that may allow remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, remote denial of service and breach of data confidentiality. The advisory is based on Microsoft security bulletins dated 15 October 2026 for four CVE…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1310 reports multiple vulnerabilities in Citrix products, based on Citrix security bulletins dated 13 October 2026. According to the advisory, some flaws allow an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service. Other listed impacts are data integrity and con…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1316 reports multiple vulnerabilities across Microsoft products, based on Microsoft security bulletins dated 13 October 2026. According to the advisory, some flaws allow an attacker to achieve remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service. Other listed impacts are data …
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1315 reports multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure components, published on 14 October 2026. Some of them allow remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality. Microsoft published the corresponding security bulletins on 13 October 2026. …
Check Point researchers disclosed two high-risk vulnerabilities in LiteLLM, an open-source LLM gateway with almost 100,000 downloads a month. The gateway connects enterprise AI applications to providers such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The flaws, CVE-2026-35029 and CVE-2026-59823, could let any user with an account on a vulnerable de…
Hacktron researcher sudi disclosed a vulnerability in the browser extension bundled with Google's AI IDE Antigravity, which is built on the same internals as Windsurf. The extension's externallyconnectable setting allows any web page to send messages to it. The SaveScreenRecording action forwards attacker-controlled filename and L fields …
Researcher ahacker1, using the Hacktron AI tooling, disclosed a bypass of earlier fixes for prompt-injection-to-RCE in VS Code Copilot Chat agent mode. A TOCTOU flaw in the applyPatchTool component lets a crafted prompt write files outside the workspace without user confirmation. The attack can be triggered by pasting a prompt into Copilo…
On July 25, 2026, Hacktron researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif (reached through ImageMagick in Discourse's image-upload pipeline) with an OpenAI SSO weakness. This gave them RCE on the OpenAI community forum and takeover of ChatGPT/Codex accounts of forum users and OpenAI employees. To prove impact without reading sensit…
Hacktron analyzes wp2shell, an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress core found by Searchlight Cyber. It combines CVE-2026-63030, a route handler confusion in the REST API batch endpoint, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection in WPQuery. Affected versions are WordPress 6.9.0-6.9.4, 7.0.0-7.0.1 and the 7.1 beta, fixed in 6.9.5, 7.0.2 and …