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Attackers Target miniOrange SAML Flaws That Can Grant WordPress Admin Access

Attackers are exploiting two unauthenticated WordPress auth bypasses (CVE-2026-61979, CVE-2026-15981, max CVSS 9.8) in miniOrange SAML SSO to gain admin sessions.

Patchstack disclosed two flaws in the Xecurify miniOrange SAML 2.0 Single Sign On WordPress plugin: CVE-2026-15981 (CVSS 9.8) accepts malformed signatures because mo_saml_validate_signature() loosely checks the tri-state result of openssl_verify(), and CVE-2026-61979 (CVSS 8.1) enables privilege escalation via signature algorithm confusion. Both let unauthenticated attackers sign in as any WordPress user, including administrators; fixes shipped in Standard edition versions 17.0.6 and 17.0.5. DigitalOcean observed an attacker using the bypass to obtain an admin session cookie, opportunistic scanning is underway from six IP addresses, and PoC chaining code is public.

The Hacker NewsAug 25, 08:34 UTC · 22d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-61979 CVE-2026-15981

Siemens Mendix SAML

Siemens Mendix SAML module fails signature validation, allowing unauthenticated account hijacking in specific SSO configurations (CVE-2026-80465).

CISA republished Siemens advisory SSA-887643 for CVE-2026-80465 (CVSS 8.7) in the Mendix SAML module, affecting Mendix 10/11-compatible versions before 4.2.3 and Mendix 9.24-compatible versions before 3.6.27. The module improperly validates SAML response signatures (CWE-347), letting unauthenticated remote attackers hijack an account in specific SSO configurations. Mendix has released fixed versions and recommends updating.

CISA AdvisoriesSep 15, 12:00 UTC · 1d agoAdvisory CVE-2026-80465

CVE-2026-56207: Apache Impala: SAML authentication bypass via forged bearer token

Apache Impala CVE-2026-56207 allows forged SAML bearer tokens on the hs2-http interface, letting attackers impersonate other users; fixed in 4.5.2.

Apache Impala versions 4.0.0 through 4.5.1 fail to verify the bearer token signature in the final step of SAML2 authentication for the hs2-http interface. An attacker can alter the username and act as another user. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.5.2, and Apache rated the issue critical. It was reported by Andrew Rukin of Arenadata.

oss-securitySep 8, 21:37 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability 3 sources CVE-2026-562071

CVE-2026-86304: MojoX::Authentication versions before 0.006 for Perl allow SAML authentication bypass because parse_assertion builds Net::SAML2::Binding::POST without a trust anchor

MojoX::Authentication before 0.006 for Perl allows SAML authentication bypass because parse_assertion builds Net::SAML2::Binding::POST without a trust anchor (CVE-2026-86304).

CVE-2026-86304 affects MojoX::Authentication versions before 0.006 for Perl. The parse_assertion function builds Net::SAML2::Binding::POST without a trust anchor, so SAML assertions are not validated against a trusted signing key, enabling authentication bypass. The flaw is fixed in version 0.006 of the module.

oss-securitySep 6, 23:14 UTC · 9d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-86304

Two CVSS 9.8 Auth Bypasses in miniOrange SAML WordPress Plugin Were Exploited Before Any Database Even Listed the Paid Editions as Vulnerable

Attackers actively exploit two CVSS 9.8 auth bypasses (CVE-2026-61979, CVE-2026-15981) in the miniOrange SAML WordPress plugin, forging SAML responses to become admin.

CVE-2026-61979 is a SAML algorithm confusion flaw that lets attackers sign forged assertions using the identity provider's RSA public key as an HMAC secret; CVE-2026-15981 stems from PHP treating openssl_verify()'s -1 error return as true, allowing a crafted signature that triggers an OpenSSL error to validate. Both bugs independently let unauthenticated attackers obtain WordPress administrator sessions and both are confirmed exploited in the wild. DigitalOcean discovered the exploitation via a network anomaly after public vulnerability databases covered only the Free edition (fixed in 5.4.5), leaving seven independently versioned paid editions appearing patched. Attackers are scanning SSO endpoints from six IPs in Belgium, Nigeria, the US and Germany, and paid-edition fixes require manual uploads across version lines.

Security AffairsAug 25, 16:43 UTC · 21d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-61979 CVE-2026-15981

[Control Systems] Siemens security advisory (AV26-881)

Siemens patched an account hijacking vulnerability in the Mendix SAML module affecting Mendix 9.24, 10, and 11 releases before fixed versions.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security relayed Siemens advisory SSA-887643, which addresses an account hijacking vulnerability in the Mendix SAML module. Affected components are the Mendix 10 and Mendix 11 compatible modules prior to V4.2.3 and the Mendix 9.24 compatible module prior to V3.6.27. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisories and apply the available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 3, 19:32 UTC · 12d agoAdvisory

One slug, seven editions: the miniOrange SAML SSO bug that let anyone log in as your WordPress admin

DigitalOcean researchers reported a critical authentication flaw in miniOrange SAML SSO WordPress plugins, allowing login as WordPress admin across seven editions.

The DigitalOcean security team identified a critical flaw in miniOrange's SAML SSO WordPress plugins that allowed an attacker to authenticate as a WordPress administrator. Patchstack notes the issue spans seven editions of the plugin, all sharing a common slug. The write-up covers root cause analysis by DigitalOcean and vendor follow-up coordinated jointly with Patchstack; no specific CVE id is cited in the text.

PatchstackAug 21, 16:58 UTC · 25d agoVulnerability

OpenSSL’s new alpha build speeds up post-quantum crypto

OpenSSL 4.1.0 alpha1 adds DTLS 1.3 support and speeds up ML-DSA and ML-KEM post-quantum operations across several architectures.

The OpenSSL project released the first alpha of OpenSSL 4.1.0, months before general availability. The build adds DTLS 1.3 (RFC 9147) to secure UDP-based traffic such as VPNs, video calls and IoT, and includes optimized ML-DSA and ML-KEM operations for ppc64le, s390x and x86_64 plus AVX-512 acceleration for SHAKE hashing and AES-CBC decryption. Breaking changes include a new Net::Curl::Easy dependency for tsget, dropped Windows-on-Itanium and Windows CE support, and replacement of the no-ecdsa/no-ecdh Configure options with no-ec. It also adds GREASE support (RFC 8701), a DTLS mode for the SSL listener API, IKEv2 KDF support, and initial Elbrus2000 processor architecture support.

Help Net Securityupdated Sep 10, 11:22 UTC · 6d agofirst Sep 9, 22:15 UTC · 6d agoTools 2 sources

Augustinian BabyLM: What Ostensive Definition Can and Cannot Teach a Small Language Model

Study shows visually grounded token embeddings in a small masked LM persist through training and improve object-property knowledge, but escape standard BabyLM benchmarks.

The paper implements ostensive definition for a small DeBERTa masked language model trained on 10M words, seeding visually grounded tokens with embeddings derived from labeled image regions before training. Visual initialization leaves a persistent, seed-replicated advantage on object-property knowledge (COMPS) and a corpus-tailored Visual-Property Swap benchmark covering color, material, size, and shape, but has no effect on most BabyLM grammar benchmarks. Synthetic grounding of previously unseeded words causally transfers the advantage to exactly those words.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 10, 17:43 UTC · 5d agoAI research

AL26-019 - Vulnerabilities impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway - CVE-2026-19490 and CVE-2026-19489

Canadian Cyber Centre alerts on Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway flaws CVE-2026-19490 (authentication bypass) and CVE-2026-19489 (buffer overflow), urging emergency patching.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued alert AL26-019 covering two Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities disclosed in a vendor advisory on August 19, 2026. CVE-2026-19490 (CWE-288) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication on appliances configured as a Gateway for SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy, or as an AAA virtual server. CVE-2026-19489 (CWE-120) is a classic buffer overflow that may cause memory overflow, unpredictable behavior, or denial-of-service conditions. Affected appliances are vulnerable when configured as a SAML IdP; fixed versions include 14.1-73.32, 13.1-63.21, and 13.1-37.277 for FIPS.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 4, 19:00 UTC · 11d agoAdvisory 3 sources CVE-2026-19490 CVE-2026-19489

MetroLLM-Bench: Evaluating Language Models as Transit Kiosk Runtimes

MetroLLM-Bench is a 955-case benchmark testing language models as transit kiosk tool-calling runtimes across six real metro systems.

The benchmark covers 37-414-station metro systems and eleven task categories including routing, fare calculation, disruptions, accessibility, and adversarial input, with 14 deterministic and 8 semantic scoring components. Of 26 models from six vendors, a PEFT-tuned 4B Qwen 3.5 student scored 91.3 on Tier 1, exceeding GPT-5.6 (90.6/90.0), while Muse Glimmer 30B led the composite ranking. A deterministic rule-based baseline reached 84.6, and PEFT gains over base models shrank from +7.03 points at 2B to -0.91 at 27B.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 8, 20:00 UTC · 7d agoAI research

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

Citrix patches critical NetScaler Gateway and AAA authentication bypass CVE-2026-19490 (CVSS 9.3) plus a SIP ALG memory overflow flaw; exploitation attempts observed.

Citrix fixed CVE-2026-19490 (CVSS 9.3), an authentication bypass affecting customer-managed NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances configured as Gateway (SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) or AAA virtual servers, and CVE-2026-19489 (CVSS 8.8), a memory overflow causing DoS when SIP ALG is enabled in Large Scale NAT groups. Updates are available in versions 14.1-73.32, 13.1-63.21, and corresponding FIPS/NDcPP builds, while Citrix-managed cloud services were already patched. The flaws were reported by Samarth Vashisht of JPMorgan Chase's penetration-testing team, and Previdian later observed 10 exploitation attempts against CVE-2026-19490 from six unique IP addresses in Australia, Germany, Japan, and the US, with no confirmed compromise.

The Hacker NewsSep 4, 17:00 UTC · 11d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-19489 CVE-2026-19490 CVE-2026-8451

Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv

Hugging Face tutorial trains a coding model with TRL and OpenEnv to paint watercolours through generated code.

A Hugging Face blog walkthrough uses the TRL reinforcement learning library and the OpenEnv environment framework to train a coding model. The target task is generating code that produces watercolour-style drawings, serving as a hands-on reinforcement learning training example. No article body was available in the feed, so specifics are limited to the title.

Hugging Face BlogSep 3, 00:00 UTC · 13d agoAI tools & infra1

Crypto customers targeted by scammers after email marketing provider breach

Attackers exploited a Brevo SAML SSO flaw to access 138 accounts and phish crypto customers of Trezor, CoinTracking, and BitBox.

An attacker exploited a flaw in Brevo's SAML SSO handling to access 138 customer accounts on September 10; six accounts were used to send phishing emails and contacts were exported from 43 accounts. Crypto firms Trezor, CoinTracking, and BitBox confirmed customers received phishing emails, with Trezor warning roughly 347,000 newsletter subscribers. The Trezor-themed email cited a fabricated STM32 microcontroller entropy bug and urged recipients to enter wallet backups through a malicious link. Exported contact lists could fuel future targeted phishing attacks.

Malwarebytes LabsSep 11, 15:01 UTC · 4d agoData breach in the wild 6 sources

[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

Fal post-trained MiniMax H3 into a 'Max' variant with 35x-faster inference, enabling faster-than-realtime AI video generation and infinite streams.

Fal post-trained MiniMax's H3 model into a 'Max' variant and optimized it for its in-house inference engine, achieving roughly 35x the speed of the official endpoint. The optimization enables faster-than-realtime video generation, demonstrated by an infinite interactive AI-generated stream productized by levels.io. The roundup also notes Meta Muse Code's general availability with an SDK, open DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp weights, GLM-5.3-Flash's strong agentic cost/performance rankings, and Tencent's 770B-parameter Hy4 Preview MoE with 49B active parameters.

Latent SpaceSep 1, 04:36 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

Jenkins Security Advisory 2026-09-02

Jenkins releases a security advisory affecting Jenkins Core, update-center2, and 17 plugins including GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, and Script Security.

Jenkins published its September 2, 2026 security advisory covering Jenkins Core, the update-center2 tool, and 17 plugins, including widely deployed ones such as GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, Script Security, SonarQube Scanner, and Pipeline: Groovy Libraries. The announcement text does not include CVE identifiers, affected version ranges, or any statement about active exploitation. Jenkins plugin advisories typically bundle fixes for issues like stored XSS, CSRF, and missing permission checks. Administrators running any of the listed components should update them via the Jenkins update center.

Jenkins Security AdvisoriesSep 2, 12:00 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory1

Citrix urges customers to fix critical NetScaler authentication bypass (CVE-2026-19490)

Citrix patched a critical authentication bypass, CVE-2026-19490, in NetScaler Gateway and NetScaler ADC, urging customers to upgrade immediately.

Citrix has patched two flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. CVE-2026-19490 is a critical authentication bypass (CVSS v4.0 9.3) that works when the appliance is configured as an SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy Gateway or AAA virtual server, with additional conditions depending on firmware and SAML configuration. A second flaw, CVE-2026-19489 (CVSS 8.8), is a memory overflow that can cause denial of service when SIP ALG is enabled on LSN setups. Rapid7 had not observed exploitation as of August 19, 2026, but urged emergency patching; a signature-based mitigation is available via NetScaler Console.

Help Net SecurityAug 21, 00:00 UTC · 26d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-19490 CVE-2026-19489

Okta Fixes Auth0 and Access Gateway Flaws Enabling XSS, Auth Bypass, and SQL Injection

Okta patched three flaws in Auth0 AD/LDAP Connector and Access Gateway, including a CVSS 9.0 stored XSS tracked as CVE-2026-85982.

Okta disclosed and patched three vulnerabilities on September 8, 2026 affecting the Auth0 AD/LDAP Connector and Okta Access Gateway. CVE-2026-85982 is a CVSS 9.0 stored XSS in the connector's admin panel caused by improper HTML encoding of directory search results and updater logs; CVE-2026-78626 is a CVSS 8.1 authorization bypass in Access Gateway Protected Rules; CVE-2026-78623 is a CVSS 7.7 SQL injection in advanced-mode datastores via unsanitized SAML assertion attributes. Fixes ship in connector version 8.0.0 and Access Gateway 2026.9.1; no exploitation has been reported.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Sep 11, 09:42 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 11, 08:13 UTC · 5d agoVulnerability 2 sources CVE-2026-85982 CVE-2026-78626 CVE-2026-786231

August 2026 CVE Landscape

Insikt Group catalogs 73 high-impact August 2026 CVEs (43 Very Critical), including PaperCut, Zimbra, and Metabase flaws actively exploited or weaponized.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group identified 73 high-impact vulnerabilities in August 2026, 43 rated Very Critical, spanning 45 vendors with Microsoft accounting for roughly 11%. 31 vulnerabilities surfaced via CISA's KEV catalog, with others validated via open sources, vendor telemetry, and honeypot data. New Nuclei detection templates were released for CVE-2025-62593 (Ray), CVE-2026-72898 (Metabase), and CVE-2026-9198 (IBM Langflow). The report also highlights two AI-assisted operations: UAT-10147 exploited Zimbra, AjaxPro, Nacos, and Telerik servers before using DeepAudit and PentestGPT post-compromise, while a separate Chinese-speaking actor weaponized Hermes Agent and DeepSeek in a failed attempt.

Recorded FutureSep 8, 00:00 UTC · 8d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2025-62593 CVE-2026-72898 CVE-2026-9198+4 CVEs

MobileVLA-R1 2.0: RL-Enhanced Reasoning for Mobile Robot Control

MobileVLA-R1 2.0 couples chain-of-thought reasoning with RL for mobile robot control, gaining 10 points on real Unitree G1 tasks.

MobileVLA-R1 2.0 is an RL-enhanced vision-language-action framework that explicitly couples structured embodied reasoning with executable mobile robot control via supervised Chain-of-Thought alignment and reinforcement learning. A reasoning-conditioned action decoder maps multimodal reasoning representations to task-level action targets, decoupling high-level action generation from robot-specific actuation for both locomotion and manipulation. It achieves an average 1.6 point SR improvement on VLN-CE and a 10.0 point improvement in full-task success on real-world Unitree G1 mobile manipulation, with evaluations covering navigation, quadruped control, and real deployments on Unitree Go2 and G1 robots.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 4, 20:00 UTC · 11d agoAI research

CISA Warns of Citrix NetScaler Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

CISA adds exploited Citrix NetScaler authentication bypass CVE-2026-19490 to the KEV catalog; federal agencies must patch by September 12.

CISA added CVE-2026-19490, a CWE-288 authentication bypass affecting NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments configured as AAA virtual servers or Gateway services (including SSL VPN, ICA Proxy, and RDP Proxy), to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Citrix released fixes on August 19, 2026; honeypots recorded 56 attack attempts between September 3 and 8 after a public PoC, though no confirmed production compromises have been reported. Affected builds include 14.1 before 14.1-73.32 and 13.1 before 13.1-63.21; newer installations require SAML IdP configuration to be exposed.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Sep 10, 18:57 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 10, 13:23 UTC · 5d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 5 sources CVE-2026-19490

AI SIEM Search

Huntress launched AI Search for Managed SIEM, translating plain-English questions into ESQL log queries with schedulable custom alerts.

Huntress introduced AI Search in its Managed SIEM, letting users query logs in natural language instead of writing ESQL, KQL, or SPL. The feature generates a real ESQL query behind the scenes, exposes it for users to inspect and learn from, and allows saved searches to be scheduled as recurring alerts at hourly, daily, or weekly cadence. A planned next version will return summarized plain-language answers instead of raw logs.

HuntressSep 7, 14:00 UTC · 8d agoTools

Critical GitLab Flaws Let Attackers Read Arbitrary Files, Steal Credentials and Execute Code

GitLab issues emergency patches for critical path-traversal flaw CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS 10.0), GraphQL credential exposure CVE-2026-87719, and potential RCE flaw CVE-2026-88765.

GitLab released versions 19.3.2, 19.2.6, and 19.1.8 on September 10, 2026, fixing 18 vulnerabilities across Community and Enterprise Editions. CVE-2026-85706 allows unauthenticated arbitrary file reads via the repository commits API; CVE-2026-87719 exposes Advanced Search credentials through GraphQL subscription deserialization; CVE-2026-88765 may enable authenticated RCE via crafted project export imports. No exploitation was reported, but self-managed administrators are urged to upgrade immediately and review logs for suspicious API and GraphQL activity.

GBHackersSep 11, 10:13 UTC · 5d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-85706 CVE-2026-87719 CVE-2026-88765+15 CVEs1

The Router Within: Eliciting Native Skill Routing from a Frozen LLM

Gavel reads native skill-routing signals from a frozen LLM's forward passes with two linear maps, beating retrieve-and-rerank pipelines by up to 21.9 points on Qwen3-32B.

Gavel (Glance And Verdict from a frozen LLM) elicits skill routing from a frozen agent LLM using two trained linear maps that read mid-layer states, keeping all skill text out of context. A glance step scores the full library against compact per-skill banks built in one forward pass at installation; a verdict step resumes shortlisted skills' forward passes and fuses likelihood and yes/no judgments as a product of experts. It transfers zero-shot to three public benchmarks plus SkillTraj, a new benchmark of 372 simulated agent trajectories. On Qwen3-32B it beats progressive disclosure and retrieve-and-rerank pipelines adding 1.2B–16B external parameters by up to 13.4 points on written tasks and 21.9 when skills are needed mid-rollout.

Hugging Face daily papersupdated Sep 14, 17:58 UTC · 1d agofirst Sep 13, 20:00 UTC · 2d agoAI research 2 sources

CISA Shares 17 Techniques Used by Hackers to Compromise Active Directory

CISA and five international agencies publish joint guidance detailing 17 techniques attackers use to compromise Microsoft Active Directory environments.

CISA, NSA, and the Australian Signals Directorate's ACSC, with contributions from Canadian, UK, and New Zealand cyber centers, released technical guidance on 17 Active Directory attack techniques. It covers AD Domain Services, AD Certificate Services, and AD Federation Services, including Kerberoasting, DCSync, Golden Ticket, Golden SAML, Skeleton Key, and Shadow Credentials. The guidance recommends treating domain controllers, CAs, AD FS servers, and Entra Connect systems as Tier 0 assets with phishing-resistant MFA, Kerberos pre-authentication enforcement, and disabling NTLM/SMBv1.

Cyber Security NewsSep 15, 16:05 UTC · 20h agoAdvisory

CVE-2026-86219: Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl accept replayed authentication responses via unverified nonce in server_step

Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 before 2.2100 for Perl accepts replayed DIGEST-MD5 authentication responses via unverified nonce handling (CVE-2026-86219).

CVE-2026-86219 affects Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl. The server_step function does not verify the nonce, allowing replayed authentication responses to be accepted in DIGEST-MD5 SASL exchanges. The fix is available in version 2.2100 of the perl-authen-sasl distribution.

oss-securitySep 6, 18:55 UTC · 9d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-862191

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, pairing built-in market data with GPT-6 Astra for banking research workflows.

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience shaped by design partners Morgan Stanley and Evercore, targeting investment banking and equity research. It bundles premium data from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase hosted on OpenAI infrastructure with granular citations, optimized MCP connectors for S&P Global and FactSet, and 50+ connectors, plus planned entitlement integrations with S&P Capital IQ, LSEG, MSCI, Dow Jones Factiva, and Moody's. It runs GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI claims is state of the art in information retrieval, financial reasoning, and artifact generation, and includes enterprise controls such as SAML SSO, SCIM, role-based access, and no default training on firm data.

OpenAI Newsupdated Sep 10, 18:25 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 10, 07:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 3 sources

Tables Decoded: DELTA for Structure, TARQA for Understanding

DELTA extracts tables into compact OTSL text and TARQA fine-tunes LLMs on it, beating VLM baselines on table QA.

DELTA separates physical structure recognition, logical structure recognition, and OCR to output tables in Optimised Table Structure Language (OTSL), a compact unified format encoding cell arrangements and content. It achieves TEDS-Structure scores comparable to state-of-the-art methods across FinTabNet, PubTabNet, and PubTables-1M, with robustness tested on a curated Hindi benchmark, TORQUE. TARQA, an LLM fine-tuned on OTSL sequences, gains 9.3 percentage points on WTQ TabQA and 9.2 points on FinTabNetQA TabVQA; code, models, and the benchmark are released on GitHub.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 15, 16:59 UTC · 19h agoAI research

Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account

Red Hat patched critical Keycloak flaw CVE-2026-18963 (CVSS 9.1) allowing unauthenticated attackers to take over any account, including administrative ones.

Keycloak and Red Hat patched CVE-2026-18963, a CVSS 9.1 flaw (CWE-640) caused by improper state validation in the reset-credentials flow, letting an unauthenticated remote attacker force a password reset without the emailed action token and achieve full account takeover, including admin accounts. Upstream Keycloak 26.7.2 and Red Hat Build of Keycloak 26.4.15/26.6.6 contain fixes; four RHSA errata were issued August 18, 2026. No evidence of exploitation or public exploits exists as of August 24, 2026; mitigation is disabling the Forgot Password feature in all realms.

The Hacker NewsAug 24, 11:56 UTC · 23d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-18963 CVE-2026-15571

Building a Production Greek-English Speech Recognizer

Engineering report details Sophea, a production Greek-English ASR reaching 4.26% WER on public English sets via ROVER ensemble and data-pipeline calibration.

Across 23 training iterations, two architectures, and nine production gates, no single data composition passed all gates; a three-model ROVER ensemble reached 9 of 9 gates and cut overlapping-speech WER from 53.35% to 37.87%. Calibrating an audio-quality filter against in-domain anchors reduced discarded scored Greek audio from 98.7% to 10.6%, and a pre-registered ablation traced a hallucination defect to one training-data package. The sophea/asr-k1 preview arbiter lists 4.26% average WER on eight public English test sets and 25.88% WER on live Greek noisy traffic; no weights or training data are released.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 10, 20:00 UTC · 5d agoAI research

Jenkins security advisory (AV26-877)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a Jenkins advisory (AV26-877) covering core and numerous plugin vulnerabilities fixed in 2.568.3/2.580.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-877 for the Jenkins security advisory dated September 2, 2026. Affected products include Jenkins releases other than 2.568.3 and 2.580, plus plugins such as GitLab, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, SAML, Script Security, Pipeline Build Step, and others. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisory and apply necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 3, 13:54 UTC · 12d agoAdvisory

Nuha-Speech: Building General-Purpose Arabic Speech-LLMs

Nuha-Speech initiative builds general-purpose Arabic speech-LLMs using a 1.5M-sample speech QA corpus and fine-tuned Qwen-Omni variants.

The paper introduces Nuha-Speech, an initiative covering dataset construction, model training, and evaluation for Arabic speech large language models. The authors built an Arabic Speech Question-Answering corpus of over 1.5 million training samples and used it for supervised fine-tuning of Qwen-Omni model variants at multiple scales. A tailored evaluation framework with diverse tasks and metrics is designed to assess Arabic speech capabilities under limited resource constraints.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 10, 17:50 UTC · 5d agoAI research1

Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication

Attackers chain PaperCut NG/MF flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 for unauthenticated RCE; exploitation observed and a second emergency patch issued.

Two flaws in PaperCut NG and MF — CVE-2026-81578 (CVSS 8.8, improper access control enabling auth bypass) and CVE-2026-82078 (CVSS 9.4, unsafe dynamic class loading) — are being chained for unauthenticated remote code execution. Huntress observed limited exploitation on two customer environments, including Base64-encoded commands, 'whoami & ver' fingerprinting, SimpleHelp execution, and AnyDesk installation for persistence. PaperCut released a second emergency patch for v24, v25, and v26, but watchTowr reports additional patch bypasses may still affect the latest version. Shared IoCs include crafted jdbc strings in server.log and attacker-written .class/.cmd files.

The Hacker NewsSep 2, 10:21 UTC · 14d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-82078 CVE-2026-815781

[webapps] Langflow 1.8.4 - Path Traversal to Remote Code Execution

A path traversal to remote code execution exploit for Langflow 1.8.4, a popular LLM application builder, was published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept exploit chaining path traversal to remote code execution in Langflow 1.8.4, an open-source tool used to build LLM applications and agents. The chain allows an attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory and achieve code execution on the host. The provided text does not include a CVE identifier or reports of exploitation in the wild, but RCE in a widely deployed AI tooling product is notable for defenders.

Exploit-DBAug 31, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

CISA Warns Hackers Exploit 17 Active Directory Techniques to Gain Control of Enterprise Networks

CISA and Five Eyes agencies issued joint guidance detailing 17 Active Directory attack techniques like Kerberoasting and DCSync, with hardening and detection advice.

CISA, the NSA, and cyber agencies from Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand released joint guidance on September 15 covering 17 techniques attackers use to compromise Active Directory, including AD CS, Certificate Services, and Federation Services attacks. Named techniques include Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, password spraying, DCSync, NTDS.dit dumping, Golden and Silver Tickets, Golden SAML, and Skeleton Key. Recommendations include minimizing SPN accounts, enforcing AES encryption, disabling NTLM, account lockout thresholds of five attempts, phishing-resistant MFA, and Tier 0 prioritization. The guide also lists Windows event IDs 4769, 4768, 4625, 4771, and 2889 for detecting Kerberoasting and password spraying on domain controllers.

GBHackers06:04 UTC · 6h agoAdvisory

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard added its first Global South language, expanding speech-recognition benchmark coverage.

The Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard, a community benchmark tracker for automatic speech recognition models, added its first Global South language. This expands evaluation coverage beyond the high-resource languages the leaderboard previously tracked. No further details were available in the announcement text.

Hugging Face BlogAug 28, 00:00 UTC · 19d agoAI research

Risky Bulletin: Dutch intel services to get extensive new powers

Netherlands proposed a bill granting AIVD and MIVD expanded warrantless tapping, faster hacking powers, and forced data disclosure, citing Russia, China, and Iran threats.

The Dutch government introduced a bill greatly expanding surveillance powers of intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD, allowing up to one year of tapping without pre-approval and simplified hacking operations against 'foreign adversaries'. Agencies could compel Dutch companies or citizens to provide data under threat of charges, share data with the private sector, and oversight bodies would merge into a new CTT board. The bill follows similar overhauls in Ireland, Germany, and France after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The newsletter also reports Moonwell hacked for $8.7M, a Cosmos EVM bug exploited for ~$3M, ShinyHunters listing McKesson with claimed hundreds of millions of records, and a pro-Kremlin DDoS claim against Norway's government network.

Risky Business NewsAug 31, 03:25 UTC · 16d agoPolicy & legal

Harnessing LLMs for Automating BOLA Detection

Unit 42's BOLABuster methodology uses LLMs to automate detection of broken object-level authorization vulnerabilities, uncovering flaws in Grafana, Harbor, and Easy!Appointments.

Palo Alto Unit 42 details BOLABuster, a methodology combining large language models with heuristics to automate detection of broken object-level authorization (BOLA) flaws, which traditional fuzzing and static analysis struggle to find. The approach uses LLM reasoning to understand application logic, map endpoint dependency relationships, and generate and interpret test cases. It found CVE-2024-1313 in Grafana, CVE-2024-22278 in Harbor, and 15 CVEs in Easy!Appointments. The team is continuing to hunt for BOLAs in open-source and internal projects.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 17, 12:34 UTC · 29d agoResearch CVE-2024-1313 CVE-2024-22278 CVE-2023-3285+14 CVEs

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Attackers actively exploit critical VMware vCenter flaw CVE-2026-59310, installing reverse_ssh backdoors on 361 hosts across 47 countries.

QUIRSO observed active exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS 9.8), a directory-traversal flaw in VMware vCenter allowing arbitrary code execution, patched by Broadcom in late July. Attack chains deploy a malicious cron job running the open-source reverse_ssh tool for persistence, with compromised systems phoning home starting August 3, five days after disclosure. Forensics show 361 unique victim IPs in 47 countries, mostly Germany, the U.S., Turkey, Iran, and France, with the actor suspected to be an APT. Separately, Defused Cyber reports rising scanning indicative of exploitation of related CVE-2026-59309, an unauthenticated auth bypass in vmdir.

The Hacker NewsAug 12, 16:41 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-59310 CVE-2026-59309

OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

OpenArch provides PyTorch reference implementations of modern LLM architectures for developers and researchers.

OpenArch is a GitHub project offering PyTorch implementations of modern large language model architectures. The repository attracted 43 points and 7 comments on Hacker News. It targets developers and researchers who want readable, runnable versions of current LLM architectures.

Hacker News · AISep 14, 07:55 UTC · 2d agoAI tools & infra HN 43↑ · 7 comments