Vulnerabilities
Curated coverage and analysis in this editorial area.
Notepad++: Institutional Alert Arrives Four Months After the Fix
Singapore's Cyber Security Agency published an advisory on CVE-2026-3008, a string injection flaw in Notepad++ 8.9.3 with a CVSS 6.6 s…
Copy Fail: The 732-Byte Linux Kernel Bug That Slept Since 2017
An unprivileged local user gains root deterministically. The exploit weighs 732 bytes. The bug had been in the kernel since 2017. This…
Apple Patches Decade-Old iOS Zero-Day: dyld Exposed to Commercial Spyware
Apple has fixed CVE-2026-20700, a vulnerability in dyld present for over a decade and exploited in targeted attacks. The exploit chain…
Parallels RAS Client: LPE to SYSTEM After 168 Days of Waiting
ZDI-26-556 reveals an exposed dangerous function in the RAS RDP Backend Service. Local escalation to SYSTEM after 168 days of coordina…
CVE-2026-19478: GitLab Patches Critical GraphQL Flaw CVSS 9.4 for Self-Managed Instances
GitLab issued an out-of-cycle patch on August 17, 2026 for CVE-2026-19478, a GraphQL vulnerability rated CVSS 9.4 that allows an unaut…
AMD Confirms Two High-Severity TPM 2.0 Flaws in Ryzen: Fixes Were Circulating Since May 2026
AMD published advisory AMD-SB-7064 on August 11, 2026, disclosing two high-severity TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-6726 and CVE-202…
ZDI-26-573: Pre-Auth Linux Kernel KSMBD Vulnerability Scores CVSS 9.3
A critical flaw in the in-kernel KSMBD SMB server allows unauthenticated out-of-bounds reads leading to information disclosure and pot…
NGINX WebDAV: Pre-Auth RCE Disclosed in ZDI-26-578
The ZDI-26-578 advisory reveals a critical RCE flaw in the NGINX HTTP DAV module. It is exploitable without authentication via an inte…
NVIDIA Transformers4Rec Exposed to RCE: ML Checkpoint Turns Weapon
A deserialization flaw in NVIDIA's ML library enables remote code execution via malicious checkpoints. A documented discrepancy betwee…
dnsmasq: DNSSEC Bug Enables Unauthenticated Remote DoS
A vulnerability in dnsmasq's NSEC/NSEC3 DNSSEC record parsing allows remote denial-of-service attacks without authentication. The flaw…
Flowise Removes Airtable and CSV Agents After Critical RCE (CVSS 9.4)
The low-code AI orchestration platform Flowise has entirely removed its AirtableAgent and CSVAgent components to address an unauthenti…
TONTOU: The Attack That Nullifies Spectre v2 Mitigations and Leaks Linux Passwords
MIT CSAIL researchers demonstrated a bypass of Spectre v2 mitigations on Linux at Black Hat USA 2026. TONTOU extracts password hashes…