Node.js released security updates on October 21, 2026 for CVE-2026-111497 (nicknamed Node2Shell), an out-of-bounds write in the bundled Brotli decoder. Malformed compressed input can crash the process, leak memory or potentially give an attacker code execution. Node.js rates it high severity, and Bun is also affected. A public proof of co…
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 …
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, …
F5 Labs analyzes CVE-2025-23061 and its predecessor CVE-2024-53900, a CVSS 9.0 flaw in the Mongoose MongoDB client library that allows remote code execution on Node.js API servers. The bug abuses the populate method, which accepts a $where clause containing arbitrary JavaScript. The initial fix for CVE-2024-53900 blocked only top-level $w…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20362, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Finesse. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit it by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. Successful exploitation could expose limited sensitive information from services associated…
The German municipality of Tangerhütte (Saxony-Anhalt) was hit by a cyberattack that its software provider Innocon believes was carried out with artificial intelligence. Attackers exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Innocon software behind the municipality's digital town hall, according to an MDR investigation. A municipal IT …
Sansec warns that a maximum-severity flaw, CVE-2026-103849 (dubbed BlockStrap), in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce could allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers. No in-the-wild exploitation has been observed yet, but Sansec identified four potential attack paths in under 24 hours and expects mass exploitation…
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…
GreyNoise observed an increase in scanning and exploitation attempts against Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) in Ukraine between 21 September and 1 October 2026, coinciding with an escalation in Russian strikes. Most of the activity targeted CVE-2021-36260, an unauthenticated command injection flaw in unpatched Hikvision products. GreyNoise…
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…
F5 Labs, using attack telemetry from Efflux's global sensor network, analyzed the most exploited vulnerabilities in July 2025 and found that nearly all top-scanned CVEs are HTTP-based RCE or command injection flaws in web interfaces. CVE-2017-9841 (PHPUnit) was the most exploited, followed by CVE-2023-1389 (TP-Link Archer AX21), CVE-2022-…
F5 Labs' January 2026 AI security roundup covers two attack developments: the Persona Bullying jailbreak and a critical LangChain serialization injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-68664) reachable through prompt injection. Persona Bullying applies human social-engineering tactics such as gaslighting, ridicule and social pressure to LLMs con…
This weekly roundup covers a cluster of breaches, critical vulnerabilities and law-enforcement actions. Bluesky confirmed more than 4,500 accounts compromised in a phishing campaign using a fake government payment offer. Zeabur will shut down after a second breach this year that exposed over 3.2 million environment variable records and da…
A Chinese-speaking threat actor used AI agents coordinated through the open-source Cairn platform to attempt intrusions against more than 1,200 websites, reportedly compromising sites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the activity while monitoring internet-exposed…
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…
A Chinese-speaking operator used the open-source AI agent framework Cairn to run autonomous attacks against more than 1,200 sites, reaching websites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the operation around 2 October 2026 by scanning for about two dozen exposed Cairn…
Kaspersky Security Services published a threat-model paper on how attackers can compromise modern logistics warehouses. It follows an order through eight fulfillment stages: unloading, receiving, putaway, storage, picking, sorting, packing and shipment. The paper identifies the warehouse management system (WMS) as the highest-value target…
A Chinese-speaking operator used autonomous AI agents on the open-source Cairn platform to compromise the websites of more than 100 companies. NorForge tracks the most active campaign as AIA0001: over 1,100 attack projects across 14 dashboards, and more than 1,200 break-in attempts overall. Targets were e-commerce businesses in the United…
A command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-4802, was disclosed in Cockpit, the web-based Linux administration tool from Red Hat. It was found by Hakai's Research team. Any authenticated user, including low-privilege accounts such as viewer, can inject OS commands through the system logs filter feature and obtain remote code execution on …
A high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-33725 (CVSS v3.1 7.2), affects Metabase Enterprise and allows an authenticated administrator to achieve remote command execution. It was discovered by Hacktron AI and Rahul Maini. The flaw lies in the /api/ee/serialization/import route, where the subname field of an imported YAML is concatenated uns…