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Fortinet security advisory (AV26-023) - Update 1

CISA added Fortinet CVE-2025-25249, a heap-based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon, to its KEV catalog; Canadian Cyber Centre urges patching.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security updated advisory AV26-023, which relays January 2026 Fortinet advisories covering FortiFone, FortiOS, FortiSASE, FortiSIEM, and FortiSwitchManager. On September 9, 2026, CISA added CVE-2025-25249, a heap-based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Related Fortinet flaws include unauthenticated local configuration access (CVE-2025-47855) and unauthenticated remote command injection (CVE-2025-64155). Administrators should review the advisories and apply available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Securityupdated · 5d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 4 sourcesCVE-2025-25249CVE-2025-47855CVE-2025-64155

ZDI-26-671: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Dialog Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a type confusion RCE (CVE-2026-80161, CVSS 7.8) in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC requiring user interaction to exploit.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-671 for a Dialog Object type confusion vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. The flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page. ZDI rated the issue 7.8 on the CVSS scale and assigned CVE-2026-80161. The advisory does not report active exploitation.

ZDI Published Advisories · 6d agoAdvisory 19 sourcesCVE-2026-80161

Deepmind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every possible DNA change in the human genome

DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes impact predictions for ~9 billion human DNA variants in a 1-petabyte dataset; its AVI score beats CADD in benchmarks

Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas, precomputing functional-effect predictions for roughly 9 billion human genome variants (about 27,000 prediction values per variant) in a one-petabyte dataset more than 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. The accompanying AlphaGenome Variant Impact Score (AVI), a small neural network combining AlphaGenome, AlphaMissense and evolutionary conservation features (18 inputs versus CADD's 150+), outperformed existing tools on clinically classified variants, ranking causal variants in the top 50 candidates for 29.5% of solved GREGoR cases versus 12.5% for CADD. A GREGoR epilepsy case illustrates the impact: AVI elevated a previously unclear DNM1 splice variant that lab experiments confirmed as likely disease-causing. The atlas is available for noncommercial use via web portal, API and a Google Antigravity skill, with a commercial version planned through Google Cloud.

The Decoderupdated · 6d agofirst · 6d agoAI research 2 sources

Severity Is Not a Strategy: What CISA BOD 26-04 Means for the Future of Federal Software Security

CISA's BOD 26-04 replaces severity-based federal patching with risk-based remediation deadlines of 3, 14, or 60 days.

CISA's Binding Operational Directive 26-04, released June 10, 2026, replaces BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01 for Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and shifts remediation prioritization from CVSS scores to risk context. Agencies assess four factors: public exposure, KEV listing, exploit automatability, and whether exploitation grants partial or total asset control, resulting in 3-, 14-, or 60-day remediation windows or next-upgrade fixes. In CISA's first review at a large civilian agency, only 1% of vulnerabilities required three-day remediation while over 60% could wait for future system upgrades. The directive also requires forensic analysis when exploitation is suspected, and Checkmarx argues the same risk-based logic must extend upstream into software development and SBOM-driven exposure management.

Checkmarx · 6d agoPolicy & legal

CodeTD: Topology of Attention Detects Hallucinations in Code LLMs

CodeTD detects hallucinations in code LLMs before execution by analyzing topological patterns of attention maps, outperforming recent baselines.

CodeTD applies topological data analysis (TDA) to code LLM attention maps to quantify prompt-generation mismatch as a pre-execution correctness signal. Experiments cover HumanEval, MBPP, BigCodeBench, and MultiPL-E across 5 programming languages and 10 code LLMs up to 34B parameters. The method outperforms recent baselines and transfers between coding benchmarks, helping catch code that fails the task or embeds security vulnerabilities.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 8d agoAI research1

Adobe security advisory (AV26-848)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed Adobe advisories covering vulnerabilities in Campaign Classic, Substance 3D apps, Adobe XD, Illustrator, and C2PA tools.

Bulletin AV26-848 lists Adobe vulnerabilities affecting Campaign Classic (through 7.4.4 build 9400), Substance 3D Designer, Painter, and Sampler, Adobe XD, C2PA Tool, Content Credentials Rust SDK, and Illustrator 2025/2026. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security encourages users and administrators to review the linked Adobe bulletins and apply updates. Specific CVE identifiers are not enumerated in the advisory text.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 20d agoAdvisory

[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 Security · 12d agoAdvisory

[Control Systems] Siemens security advisory (AV26-890)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a Siemens advisory affecting Reyrolle 7SR5, Teamcenter, Siveillance Control, Desigo CC and other products.

Advisory AV26-890, dated September 8, 2026, flags Siemens vulnerabilities in Reyrolle 7SR5 (versions prior to V2.70), Teamcenter, Siveillance Control, SIMATIC AX Runtime, Desigo CC, Industrial Edge Management, and SIMOVE Fleetmanager and SIPLANT across multiple versions and models. The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Siemens advisory and apply available updates. No specific CVEs or exploitation details are provided in the relayed advisory.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 7d agoAdvisory

[webapps] C-MOR 6.0104 - Directory Traversal

A directory traversal proof-of-concept for video surveillance software C-MOR version 6.0104 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB entry 52666 discloses a directory traversal vulnerability in C-MOR version 6.0104, a video surveillance platform. The issue is listed under web application vulnerabilities. No CVE identifier or exploitation evidence is included in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 16d agoExploit / PoC

Anatomical Grounding and Leakage-Aware Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Classification from Structural MRI

Study of label leakage and anatomical grounding in multimodal MRI models for Alzheimer's staging shows cognitive-score fusion accuracy of 87.3% is leakage-driven.

The authors train a ResNet18 slice-based encoder with a one-layer Transformer on 1,075 ADNI-1 T1 MRI scans, using FastSurfer segmentations and YOLOv8 localization (mAP_50 above 0.96) as anatomical reference. Grad-CAM shows the image-only classifier often attends to skull and background rather than disease-relevant structures. A CLIP-style image-tabular contrastive framework organized along a label-leakage spectrum yields 87.3% three-way accuracy with cognitive scores versus 73.0% with regional volumes, and cropping to the medial temporal lobe raises image-only accuracy from 58.7% to 65.1%. Results come from single runs on a small balanced test set with reported confidence intervals.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 1d agoAI research1

Lightweight Vision Transformer Compression for On-Device Plant Disease Detection in Resource-Constrained Agricultural Field Conditions

A unified ViT compression pipeline (H-BAC pruning, quantization, distillation) cuts plant-disease models 54.5x to 6.01 MB while keeping 95.13% accuracy.

Researchers combined Hessian-Balanced Adaptive Block Pruning (H-BAC), guided by second-order sensitivity estimation, with quantization and attention-based knowledge distillation to compress Vision Transformers for on-device chilli plant disease detection in India. On a 3-class cross-village, cross-device out-of-distribution dataset, the integrated pipeline reduced model size from 327.42 MB to 6.01 MB (54.5x) at 95.13 +/- 2.32% accuracy, matching the 95.13% FP32 baseline. Ablations also show a directly trained 6.01 MB INT8 student reaches 94.87% accuracy, indicating where pruning and distillation add limited value.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 11d agoAI research

Fortra security advisory (AV26-906)

Canada's Cyber Centre advises that Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Endpoint versions prior to 7.10.2 are affected by a path traversal vulnerability.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued advisory AV26-906 noting that Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Endpoint versions prior to 7.10.2 are affected by a path traversal vulnerability. The advisory was published September 10, 2026, referencing Fortra's own security advisory. No exploitation details or CVE id are provided; administrators are urged to review the links and apply the 7.10.2 update.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 5d agoAdvisory

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA added CVE-2026-85706, an actively exploited GitLab path traversal flaw, to its KEV Catalog, requiring federal agencies to prioritize patching.

CISA added one vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-85706, a path traversal vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. Under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must prioritize rapid remediation of KEV-listed vulnerabilities on publicly exposed assets, including checking whether systems were compromised before the patch was applied. While BOD 26-04 binds only FCEB agencies, CISA encourages all organizations to adopt risk-based vulnerability management and prioritize KEV remediations.

CISA Advisoriesupdated · 1d agofirst · 4d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 17 sourcesCVE-2026-85706

ZDI-26-613: (0Day) pdfforge PDF Architect PDF File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI published ZDI-26-613, an unpatched memory corruption flaw in pdfforge PDF Architect PDF parsing enabling remote code execution (CVSS 7.8).

The Zero Day Initiative disclosed ZDI-26-613, a memory corruption vulnerability in pdfforge PDF Architect's PDF file parsing that allows remote code execution on affected installations. User interaction is required, meaning the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 7.8 and classifies the issue as a 0day.

ZDI Published Advisories · 16d agoAdvisory

Technical Manual for a Toolkit for Measuring Contextual Individuation in Transformer Language Models

An open methodology toolkit measures whether transformer language models contextualize fixed word forms across domains using bridge forms and layer-wise silhouette analysis.

The manual documents an open toolkit built around 'bridge forms' - identical written words recurring across two or more subject domains with a different sense in each - to test whether transformer language models individuate word occurrences by context beyond the embedding layer. It covers declarative specification of bridge forms, Wikipedia corpus acquisition, occurrence localization, layer-wise representation extraction, domain-pairwise silhouette measurement, and visualization, justifying each choice against failure modes such as sense contamination and subword-tokenization misalignment. It is a methodological and implementation reference and reports no empirical results.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 11d agoAI research

Orthanc DICOM Server

CISA advisory flags CVE-2026-87020, an integer overflow in Orthanc DICOM Server <1.13.0 causing heap out-of-bounds write and denial of service when decoding crafted PNG/JPEG images.

CISA published ICSMA-26-253-02 for Orthanc DICOM Server versions below 1.13.0, used in healthcare environments worldwide. CVE-2026-87020 (CWE-190) is an integer overflow in pitch and buffer-size computation causing a heap out-of-bounds write when decoding attacker-supplied PNG or JPEG images. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the Orthanc process and cause denial of service; CVSS v3.1 is 8.1 HIGH. CISA states no known public exploitation targeting this flaw has been reported.

CISA Advisories · 5d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-87020

VDiff-Bench: A Challenging Benchmark for Fine-Grained Image Difference Identification

VDiff-Bench, a 1,756-question benchmark, shows multimodal LLMs struggle with fine-grained image-difference identification, scoring as low as 8.7% on low-level changes.

VDiff-Bench is a multiple-choice benchmark of 1,756 four-way questions over image pairs covering 10 change categories including position, motion, color, texture, OCR/text and illumination, with curated hard negatives. Evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art open- and closed-source MLLMs shows fine-grained visual comparison remains brittle: 7-8B-scale open-source models score 52.5-70.6% on semantic changes but only 8.7-33.3% on low-level changes like noise and texture. Notably, Grok 4.3 shows a sharp performance drop on noise and texture differences, falling behind large open-source models like Kimi K2.5 and K3.

Hugging Face daily papers · 11d agoAI research

Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 Products

CISA advisory: Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 RTUs contain CVE-2026-81861, an insufficiently protected credentials flaw allowing unauthorized access to RTU configuration.

CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-04 discloses CVE-2026-81861 affecting all versions of Schneider Electric SCADAPack 47x, 47xi, 47xd, 470R, 57x, 3xx, and 32 remote terminal units. The CWE-522 insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability could expose authentication information and permit unauthorized access to RTU configuration through the Secure Lock functionality. The flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (medium), and the products are deployed worldwide in critical manufacturing and energy sectors. Abhinav Agarwal reported the vulnerability to CISA.

CISA Advisories · 21h agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-81861

ZDI-26-582: Cisco Identity Services Engine PatchUpdateListener Directory Traversal Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Cisco Identity Services Engine's PatchUpdateListener has an authenticated directory traversal (CVE-2026-20148, CVSS 4.9) enabling sensitive information disclosure.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-582 describes a directory traversal information disclosure vulnerability in the PatchUpdateListener component of Cisco Identity Services Engine. Remote attackers can disclose sensitive information, but valid authentication is required to exploit the flaw. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 4.9 and CVE-2026-20148.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 13, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-20148

Cisco security advisory (AV26-197) – Update 3

CISA added Cisco CVE-2026-20079 to its KEV catalog; the Canadian Cyber Centre urges updates across Secure Firewall ASA, FTD, FMC, and SCC products.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security updated advisory AV26-197 covering March 2026 Cisco advisories for Security Cloud Control, Secure Firewall Management Center, ASA, and FTD. Cisco confirmed CVE-2026-20131 was actively exploited on March 18, 2026, and CISA added it to KEV on March 19. In Update 3, dated September 9, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-20079 to the KEV catalog. The underlying flaws include FMC authentication bypass and remote code execution, ASA TCP-flood denial of service, and ASA/FTD IPsec denial of service.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Securityupdated · 2d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 13 sourcesCVE-2026-20131CVE-2026-20079

ModaLens: Measuring Image Sensitivity in Report-Conditioned Medical VLMs

ModaLens image-swap audit shows report availability cuts MedGemma-27B image sensitivity on MIMIC-CXR from 20.94% to 4.26% answer changes.

ModaLens is a paired image-swap audit measuring how report availability affects image sensitivity in report-conditioned medical VLMs. On MedGemma-27B across 3,199 paired MIMIC-CXR cases from 293 patients (14 questions per case), generated answers changed on 4.26% of image-swap trials with the report versus 20.94% without it, a 16.7-point paired difference (95% CI 15.6-17.7). The original prompt with a lowercase first-token readout gave 4.70% versus 17.07%, and the direction replicated in two further model lineages. Labels derived from reports limit conclusions about visual correctness; code, prompts, and run records are publicly released.

Hugging Face daily papers · 2d agoAI research

ZDI-26-579: Cisco Identity Services Engine zipFiles Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed an authenticated directory traversal flaw (CVE-2026-20181) in Cisco Identity Services Engine allowing remote code execution, CVSS 7.2.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-579 describing a directory traversal in the zipFiles functionality of Cisco Identity Services Engine. Authenticated remote attackers can execute arbitrary code on affected installations. ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 7.2 and the identifier CVE-2026-20181.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 13, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-20181

CISA review makes the case for eliminating vulnerability classes

CISA's FY2024-2025 vulnerability review urges eliminating recurring vulnerability classes, finding 41.5% of 2025 KEV entries map to persistent 'stubborn weaknesses'.

CISA's Vulnerability Review for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 found most compromises stemmed from opportunistic exploitation of known, exposed vulnerabilities rather than nation-state zero-days or advanced tradecraft. The review found 41.5% of 2025 KEV catalog entries map to 'stubborn weaknesses' - injection flaws, improper input validation, memory-safety failures, path traversal and broken access control - recurring on the CWE Top 25 since 2019. CISA advocates Secure by Design practices, vulnerability class elimination, and buyer-driven 'Secure by Demand' contract requirements, while warning that AI-enabled vulnerability discovery will soon accelerate exploitation.

Help Net Security · 15d agoPolicy & legal

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 Advisories · 21h agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-80465

Exploits in the Wild for Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Directory Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2019

Unit 42 confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2019-19781, a critical Citrix ADC/Gateway directory traversal flaw enabling unauthenticated file access and RCE.

CVE-2019-19781, a CVSS 9.8 directory traversal vulnerability, affects all supported versions of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway. Unit 42 captured multiple exploitation attempts in the wild and identified scanning activity from roughly 700 Shodan-exposed hosts. The flaw stems from improper pathname handling in Apache, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read sensitive files like smb.conf or achieve remote code execution via crafted XML. Palo Alto Networks released Threat Prevention signatures 57497 and 57570 on January 7, 2020, while Citrix published advisories CTX267027 and CTX267679 with responder policy mitigations pending a late-January patch.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · 29d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2019-19781

Why federal cyber defense demands an offense-driven mindset

Opinion piece argues federal agencies should prioritize exploitability and autonomous penetration testing over static CVSS-based patching, citing CISA's BOD 26-04 and NSA's CAPT program.

The author argues that static CVSS-driven patching leaves federal agencies exposed because vulnerable does not equal exploitable, and adversaries chain misconfigurations and stolen credentials instead of burning zero-days. The piece cites CISA's BOD 26-04 and the NSA's Continuous Autonomous Penetration Testing (CAPT) program, which logged 28,282 completed pentests across 822 Defense Industrial Base organizations and closed 71% of critical findings within 30 days. It recommends defining risk by exploitability and mission impact and augmenting human pentesting with autonomous validation and verification.

CyberScoop · 7d agoIndustry

Transfer Learning for Evolving Domains

TrED formalizes transfer learning for domains whose data availability evolves over time, arguing classical settings are regimes along one trajectory, and remains unsolved.

The paper introduces Transfer Learning for Evolving Domains (TrED), formalizing transfer learning as a trajectory problem where target data and labels are progressively collected. TrED is specified by a data availability process fixed by the environment, a freely chosen learning protocol, and an evaluation criterion scoring the whole trajectory of models. Classical settings like domain generalization, domain adaptation, and multi-domain learning are recovered as regimes within this framework. The authors survey the literature and find most methods are tailored to a single regime, leaving TrED a well-posed open problem.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 4d agoAI research

A First-Principles Evaluation of Graph-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems

GIDS-Eval framework reveals evaluation gaps in graph-based network intrusion detection; two crafted edges fully evade three detector-dataset pairs.

Researchers introduce GIDS-Eval, a framework decomposing graph-based network intrusion detection systems into six interchangeable stages to enable controlled comparisons. Surveying nine GIDS and reimplementing five, they find two crafted edges achieve full evasion against three of eight detector-dataset pairs, snapshot windows alone cause a mean 38.3% relative swing in average precision, and none of 18 replayed detector-dataset pairs can alert as events arrive. Their encoder-free GIDS-Lite control ranks first by AP on two of four datasets at up to 575x lower runtime.

arXiv cs.CR · 5d agoResearch1

Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design

Formas launches Cartesian, an AI 3D modeling tool for architecture and product design with natural-language editing and CAD exports.

Cartesian by Formas is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool aimed at architecture and product design that converts photos, rough plans, sketches, and scans into precise geometry. Users can edit models conversationally while explicitly preserved elements stay unchanged. It creates real solids and NURBS geometry and exports to AutoCAD DWG, Rhino 3DM, and SketchUp SKP, with BIM IFC support planned, removing the need for a separate desktop CAD license.

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