Oracle released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update on October 20, the final quarterly update of the year. It fixes 1209 unique CVEs in 1295 security updates across 33 product families. 112 of the patches (8.6%) are rated critical and cover 95 CVEs. The article does not mention exploitation in the wild. Technical Details - Severity bre…
Cisco published a Software Security Hardening Release advisory for Cisco IOS XE Software. It addresses multiple vulnerabilities found during an internal security review and internal testing. Cisco states the flaws are not known to be actively exploited. It grouped the issues by Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) class and assigned a single…
The Yokai research team at Hakai Security disclosed CVE-2026-40083, a SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti versions up to and including 1.2.30. An authenticated user with SNMP management (agent) permissions can run arbitrary SQL queries, reading or modifying the entire database. Exposed data includes bcrypt credential hashes, API tokens, …
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…
Hacktron researchers disclosed a one-click universal XSS (UXSS) in Perplexity Comet, a Chromium-based AI browser with the Comet Assistant agent extension. The extension's manifest trusts the wildcard https://.perplexity.ai/ in externallyconnectable, so a single XSS on any perplexity.ai subdomain can reach privileged extension message hand…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in Cluely, an Electron-based AI assistant that reads the user's screen and microphone. They found it in July 2025 and published in February 2026. The main window had no will-navigate handler, so a link in the AI's markdown response could navigate the whole app to an attacker-controll…
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 …
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday is a record release of roughly 1,415 new CVEs, the first four-digit volume ever, larger than any previous full year of Microsoft patches. Only one flaw is under active attack: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell security feature bypass that evades Mark of the Web (MotW) protections. Two others are public…