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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…