Cisco has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could let a remote attacker access or manipulate data, obtain sensitive information, or cause a reload of certificate and key material on an affected device. The advisory (cisco-sa-ise-multiauth-bypa…
Cisco disclosed a critical authentication bypass, CVE-2026-76504, in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can send a crafted HTTP request and gain access to the API with the privileges of the admin user. Cisco has released software updates and states that no …
Apache disclosed eight vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, three rated Important and five rated Low. They cover authentication bypass, cross-user data exposure, insecure socket access and cryptographic configuration failures. Fixes are in Tomcat 11.0.27, 10.1.61 and 9.0.123, depending on the branch. Exposure depends on the component and con…
Yokai Research (Hakai Security) published an analysis and a public proof-of-concept for GHSA-f9x3-7vq9-cph6, a critical authentication bypass (CVSS v4 9.2) in the Laravel framework's built-in TokenGuard, which backs auth:api. The flaw was discovered by KIKOmanasijev and reported via the GitHub Security Advisory program. When the user tabl…
Hacktron published a vendor blog post arguing that frontier models such as Anthropic's Mythos are unnecessary for most vulnerability discovery work. To support this, it benchmarked its scanning pipeline across several LLMs against two zero-day authentication bypasses it found in oauth2-proxy v7.15.0: CVE-2026-34457 and CVE-2026-40575. Its…
Cisco published a September 2026 hardening release for Cisco Secure Firewall ASA, Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) and Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. It addresses multiple vulnerabilities found during an internal security review. Cisco rates the advisory Critical and states that two of the issues are known to be act…
Dropbox confirmed that roughly 5,000 customer accounts were accessed between 4 and 21 August after attackers abused a legacy login integration between Dropbox and Lenovo ID, Lenovo's identity system. Lenovo ID did not verify that a person registering an account actually controlled the email address used. Because Dropbox implicitly trusted…
Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin and INC, are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Unit 42 has been investigating intrusions since early June across many sectors, including finance, healthcare and manufacturing. The flaw was patched on May 13 and ini…
Researchers describe WP2Shell, a chain of two WordPress core flaws, CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, that lets unauthenticated attackers progress from public REST API endpoints to remote code execution. It affects default installations with no third-party plugin required. Public exploit code exists and exploitation attempts have been ob…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in the portal and gateway components of PAN-OS GlobalProtect. The flaw lets unauthorized attackers circumvent security controls and open VPN connections. The October 19 update says Unit 42 continues to see exploitation attempts by ransomware …
Researcher Harsh Jaiswal (Hacktron) disclosed an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect when Cloud Authentication Service (CAS) is enabled, tracked as CVE-2026-0265. With help from Claude and Ghidra MCP, he found that the firewall's JWT verification trusts the alg field in the token header. An attacker can theref…
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron ran an AI-driven audit against vinext, Cloudflare's Next.js reimplementation reportedly built in a week with AI assistance. The scan produced 45 findings, of which 24 were manually validated, including several Critical issues. The most serious bugs allow cross-user session data leakage, shared cache …
F5 released NGINX 1.30.6 (stable) and 1.31.7 (mainline) on October 14, 2026 to fix five vulnerabilities. Three are memory-corruption bugs that F5 scores 9.2 (Critical) on CVSS v4.0, and they can crash a worker process or, in some conditions, allow code execution. The others are a TLS session-ticket flaw that can bypass client-certificate …
Ivanti released its October 2026 security update on 13 October 2026. It fixes the actively exploited Connect Secure zero-day CVE-2026-104935, a spoofing-based authentication bypass that lets remote, unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary commands (cert.ssi.gouv.fr, darkwebinformer.com). The flaw was discovered by Volexity, which trac…
CISA warns that threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-104935, a zero-day authentication bypass by spoofing in Ivanti Connect Secure that allows remote, unauthenticated execution of arbitrary commands. The activity is being used for credential theft and data exfiltration. On Oct. 13, 2026, CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabiliti…