Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0315, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the GlobalProtect App on macOS. The excerpt lists affected versions only, in the 6.2.x and 6.3.x branches. It gives no CVSS score, root cause, exploitation status, or fixed versions. Defenders running GlobalProtect on macOS endpoints s…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0307 covering local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect App. The affected product list spans Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and ChromeOS clients. The advisory excerpt provided contains no CVSS score, exploitation status, technical root cause or fix details, so…
A privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-16764 (GHSA-w2j3-x3j3-mm43, CVSS 3.1 7.8, CWE-269), affects OWASP DefectDojo. The REST API UserSerializer validates changes to issuperuser but not to isstaff. An authenticated user holding only the delegated auth.changeuser permission can therefore make themselves staff and then become superuser throu…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1323, published 15 October 2026, reports a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition that allows an attacker to elevate privileges. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-88164 and is based on a Microsoft security bulletin dated 13 October 2026. The advisory does not state whether the flaw…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20321, a command injection vulnerability in the web-based management API of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). An authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system. Cisco rates the Security Impact…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20032, a Medium-rated vulnerability in the Python interpreter of Cisco NX-OS Software. An authenticated local attacker with low privileges and Python execution rights can escape the Python sandbox and reach the underlying operating system of the device. The flaw stems from insufficient validation of user-supplied …
Check Point Research disclosed two high-risk vulnerabilities in LiteLLM, the open source LLM gateway that organizations use to connect applications to AI providers such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The project is widely deployed, with about 97 million downloads per month and over 59,000 GitHub stars. CVE-2026-35029 let any user, inclu…
Cybersecurity firm Calif published a full exploit and write-up for a local privilege escalation to root on OpenBSD 7.9, chaining two kernel flaws, one of which is a 37-year-old integer overflow inherited from the original BSD sources. The exploit bypasses KARL address randomization and SMAP/SMEP protections without requiring any informati…
Docking stations are easy to leave unpatched. A Dell support article (last modified May 22, 2026) says that with "Enable External USB Port" off and Type-C dock LAN on, the HD22Q, WD19 and WD22TB4 docks cannot be updated by Dell's Firmware Utility. Separately, the tools that update docks have had local vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-4…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a privilege-escalation chain in Snowflake Postgres that turned a limited, non-superuser role (snowflakeadmin, holding CREATEROLE) into operating-system command execution as the postgres account. The chain abused built-in PostgreSQL behaviors, even though Snowflake had blocked the usual SQL-to-OS routes. Varon…
Security firm Calif published a full writeup and proof-of-concept code for a local privilege escalation exploit that gains root on OpenBSD 7.9. It chains a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow in the shared-memory attach path with a separate kernel flaw, and it bypasses KARL, SMAP and SMEP. OpenBSD patched both issues in September (errata…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1335, published 16 October 2026, reports multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel shipped with SUSE products. Some of them allow an attacker to escalate privileges, cause a remote denial of service and breach data confidentiality. Other listed impacts are data integrity breach and security policy bypas…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1312 covers a large set of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, fixed in Microsoft's 13 October 2026 security updates. Exploitation can lead to remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality. Microsoft states that CVE-2026-96951 is being activ…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1311 reports multiple vulnerabilities in Ivanti products, covering Connect Secure (ICS), Neurons for UEM and Xtraction. Some of them allow remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality and integrity. Ivanti states that CVE-2026-104935 is bein…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76488, a medium-severity vulnerability in the export policies functionality of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). An authenticated remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could read sensitive files from the underlying file system of an affected device. The files include key ma…
Kaspersky's Q2 2026 vulnerability landscape report records an unprecedented number of registered CVEs, including critical ones. It attributes the surge mainly to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and AI-generated code. Researchers are also publishing exploits for unpatched flaws more often. One example is Nightmare Eclipse (Chaotic Ecli…
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) released OperTraitor, an open-source, LLM-powered tool that ingests RBAC configurations from installed Kubernetes operators and the OperatorHub catalog. It compares an operator's documented function with its granted privileges and assigns a 1-10 risk score. The research found abandoned, overly permissive opera…
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…
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…