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Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco expanded an SSL VPN denial-of-service advisory to cover all ASA and FTD software platforms; unauthenticated attackers can exhaust device memory.

A vulnerability in the VPN and management web servers of Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust system memory or buffer blocks, causing a denial of service. Originally scoped to the ASAv and FTDv virtual appliances, Cisco updated the advisory on September 16, 2026 to cover all ASA and FTD platforms.

Cisco Security Advisories·Sep 16, 16:05 UTC · 17h agoAdvisory 9 sources

ZDI-26-635: Oracle Outside In Technology PDF File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-60392, an integer overflow in Oracle Outside In PDF parsing enabling remote code execution, rated CVSS 7.8.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-635 describing an integer overflow vulnerability in PDF file parsing within Oracle Outside In Technology. Successful exploitation allows remote code execution but requires user interaction, such as opening a malicious file or visiting a malicious page. ZDI assigned the flaw a CVSS rating of 7.8.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 9, 05:00 UTC · 8d agoAdvisory 4 sourcesCVE-2026-603921

Cisco ASA and FTD DoS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2026-20349)

Cisco patched actively exploited high-severity flaw CVE-2026-20349 in ASA and FTD SSL VPN services, allowing unauthenticated remote denial-of-service attacks.

Cisco released a security advisory addressing CVE-2026-20349, a high-severity vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software. Successful exploitation by an unauthenticated remote attacker can cause affected devices to crash or reload, causing denial of service. The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, and patches are available; organizations with internet-exposed ASA/FTD VPN endpoints should prioritize updating.

Qualys ThreatPROTECT·Aug 13, 09:47 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20349

[remote] CVE-2026-42167 - ProFTPD mod_sql post-authentication SQLi - RCE

Exploit-DB published a PoC for CVE-2026-42167, post-authentication SQL injection in ProFTPD mod_sql leading to remote code execution.

Exploit-DB entry 52658 provides a remote exploit for CVE-2026-42167, a SQL injection in ProFTPD's mod_sql module that is reachable after authentication and can lead to remote code execution. Successful exploitation requires valid credentials on the target FTP service.

Exploit-DB·Aug 25, 00:00 UTC · 23d agoExploit / PoCCVE-2026-421671

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software sftunnel Vulnerabilities

Cisco fixed sftunnel flaws in Secure Firewall Management Center and Threat Defense allowing unauthenticated authentication bypass or denial of service.

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software could allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass sftunnel authentication or mount a sftunnel denial-of-service attack. Cisco has released software updates addressing these vulnerabilities. No workarounds are available. The advisory is part of a grouped Cisco release.

Cisco Security Advisories·Sep 16, 16:00 UTC · 17h agoAdvisory 6 sources

[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs

TypeSafe launches Jev, an RLCD-trained decision model claiming 20-200x faster, 40-400x cheaper classification than frontier LLMs, alongside Gemini 3.8 Live and Neon.

TypeSafe's Jev is a 'System One' decision model trained with RLCD, claiming 20-200x faster and 40-400x cheaper classification and routing than frontier LLMs with free output tokens and no hallucinated text. Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, supporting 97 languages and async tool calls, debuting #1 on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index at 82.6. Periodic Labs' Neon is a ~1T-parameter XRD analysis model trained with RL on proprietary lab data using 1,300 H200s, lifting FrontierXRD success from 2.7% to 55.3% and beating GPT-6 Astra at lower inference cost.

Latent Space·Sep 16, 11:09 UTC · 21h agoModel release1

U.S. CISA adds Metabase, Windows, and Cisco Secure Firewall flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CISA adds three actively exploited flaws—Cisco ASA/FTD DoS, Windows Winsock SYSTEM-level UAF, and Metabase SQL injection—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CISA added CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS 8.6, heap inspection flaw crashing Cisco ASA/FTD via crafted HTTP requests to the Remote Access SSL VPN service), CVE-2026-68820 (CVSS 7.0, use-after-free in the Windows afd.sys Winsock driver allowing SYSTEM-privilege code execution, actively exploited per Microsoft) and CVE-2026-72898 (CVSS 10.0, unauthenticated SQL injection in Metabase) to the KEV catalog. Metabase disclosed its cloud service was attacked with the 0-day, giving the intruder a path to administrator rights and stored credentials for connected databases; cloud instances were patched while self-hosted deployments need urgent updates. Under BOD 22-01, federal civilian agencies must patch by August 14, 2026, except CVE-2026-68820, due August 25.

Security Affairs·Aug 18, 18:15 UTC · 29d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20349CVE-2026-68820CVE-2026-728981

ZDI-26-545: Flowise CSV_Agent customReadCSV Code Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-69256, a CVSS 8.8 code injection in Flowise CSV_Agent customReadCSV allowing authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-545 describes a code injection vulnerability in Flowise's CSV_Agent customReadCSV functionality, tracked as CVE-2026-69256 with a CVSS score of 8.8. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected Flowise installations. Authentication is required to exploit the vulnerability.

ZDI Published Advisories·Aug 11, 05:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-69256

Cisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoS

Cisco warns actively exploited flaw CVE-2026-20349 lets unauthenticated attackers crash ASA and FTD firewalls via SSL VPN; CISA added it to KEV.

Cisco fixed CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS 8.6) in Secure Firewall ASA and FTD software, insufficient error checking in HTTP request processing that lets unauthenticated remote attackers force device reloads via crafted requests to the Remote Access SSL VPN service. Hotfixes cover ASA 9.16 through 9.24 and FTD 7.0 through 10.0, and there are no workarounds; Cisco confirmed active exploitation earlier in August but did not name the actor or targets. The flaw was found during internal security testing. CISA added it to the KEV catalog, requiring federal civilian agencies to patch by August 14, 2026.

The Hacker News·Aug 12, 06:15 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20349

ZDI-26-695: Linux Kernel NFSv4 Server Race Condition Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-26-695: Linux Kernel NFSv4 server race condition (CVE-2026-89688, CVSS 8.5) enables remote code execution on nfsd systems with authentication.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-695 describes a race condition in the Linux Kernel NFSv4 server tracked as CVE-2026-89688 with a CVSS score of 8.5. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code, but authentication is required and only systems with nfsd enabled are vulnerable. No in-the-wild exploitation is mentioned in the advisory.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 14, 05:00 UTC · 3d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-896881

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·Sep 9, 18:07 UTC · 7d agoPolicy & legal

New Phishing Attacks Use Trusted Email Infrastructure and URL Cloaking to Bypass Security Tools

Virus Bulletin Q3 2026 report details phishing using DKIM-aligned senders, Amazon SES delivery, and real-time URL cloaking to evade email security and scanners.

Virus Bulletin's Q3 2026 testing found phishing campaigns delivered through trusted infrastructure like Amazon SES with DKIM-aligned sender domains. Samples included a German overdue-invoice lure redirecting to OpenSea crypto fraud and a Romanian BCR-branded PSD2 banking credential-theft campaign. Cloaking pages used hidden iframes, browser fingerprinting, and time-zone checks to show different content to scanners versus victims. Defenders are urged to inspect full redirect chains rather than attachments or initial URLs alone.

Cyber Security News·updated Sep 15, 13:04 UTC · 1d ago·first Sep 15, 12:02 UTC · 1d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild 2 sources

Molecular Déjà Vu: Digit-Level Retrieval of Published Values in Frontier Language Models

Audit of 22 frontier models finds widespread verbatim retrieval of published molecular property values, with higher reasoning increasing recall of memorized numbers.

An arXiv audit tests 22 frontier LLMs across 12 molecular regression benchmarks for verbatim retrieval of published values. More than 50% of the LLMs show verbatim retrieval on five datasets, and identical experiments are flagged 89% more often at a high reasoning level than at the lowest one. Suppressing retrieval moves model prediction errors closer together in relative terms, suggesting predictive capability is not determined solely by memorized values.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 17:32 UTC · 12d agoAI research1

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

A GitHub project releases a reverse-engineered, Jev-like model, drawing modest attention with 42 points on Hacker News.

A GitHub repository (vinnylarouge/jevlike) publishes a reverse-engineered recreation described as a Jev-like model. The project surfaced on Hacker News, where it received 42 points and 7 comments. The available source text does not specify the base model, architecture, parameter count, or benchmark results.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 16, 18:49 UTC · 14h agoModel releaseHN 42↑ · 7 comments

The skb that wasn't freed - the Fragnesia primitive via Open vSwitchnew

Doyensec details CVE-2026-90049 in Open vSwitch, enabling deterministic Linux kernel local privilege escalation on default major distribution installs.

Doyensec reports that the Open vSwitch datapath strips the SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG flag from packets it is still forwarding, allowing an in-place decrypt to write attacker-chosen bytes into root-owned page cache — a Dirty COW-class primitive that re-opens the Fragnesia bug family. The issues are tracked as CVE-2026-90049, CVE-2026-89487, and CVE-2026-80977, and were reported to the kernel security team with fixes coordinated alongside OVS maintainers. A deterministic local privilege escalation works on default installs of Arch, Fedora, Debian, Amazon Linux, and RHEL where unprivileged user namespaces and openvswitch auto-loading are enabled; the fix landed in mainline and shipped in stable on 09/04/2026. The write technique builds on the earlier Fragnesia and Dirty Frag bugs, including CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500.

Lobsters · security·08:39 UTC · 28m agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-90049CVE-2026-89487CVE-2026-80977+2 CVEs

ReactVAU: A Slow-Fast Decoupled Framework for Streaming Video Anomaly Understanding

ReactVAU is a slow-fast streaming framework for real-time video anomaly understanding that reserves heavyweight MLLM reasoning for suspicious events, improving efficiency.

ReactVAU addresses causal streaming video anomaly understanding with three components: a lightweight Fast Detection Module using Spatial Grid Folding, Anomaly-Aware Persistent Memory that protects critical visual cues from temporal decay, and a Slow Reasoning Module activated only on suspicious events. This design minimizes heavyweight MLLM invocations during long normal intervals. Experiments show competitive anomaly detection and causal reasoning under strict streaming constraints with significantly enhanced computational efficiency.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 6, 20:00 UTC · 10d agoAI research

ZDI-26-684: Linux Kernel KSMBD Query Directory Request Race Condition Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-64397, a CVSS 9.0 unauthenticated remote code execution race condition in Linux Kernel KSMBD.

ZDI-26-684 describes a race condition in the Linux Kernel KSMBD subsystem's Query Directory Request handling that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Only systems with KSMBD enabled are vulnerable. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 9.0 and CVE-2026-64397.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 14, 05:00 UTC · 3d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-64397

CVE-2026-86460: Apache Syncope: Cypher Injection via FIQL Search on Neo4j Persistence

Apache Syncope's Neo4j persistence layer permits Cypher injection via certain FIQL search expressions, affecting versions through 3.0.16, 4.0.7, and 4.1.2.

CVE-2026-86460 is a moderate-severity Cypher injection in Apache Syncope's syncope-core-persistence-neo4j module, triggered when processing some FIQL search strings. Affected versions are 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. No exploitation is reported; upgrade to fixed releases is advised.

oss-security·Sep 14, 15:56 UTC · 2d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-864601

ZDI-26-569: Linux Kernel Net Scheduler True Link Equalizer Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI publishes ZDI-26-569, a CVSS 7.5 race condition local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel net scheduler true link equalizer.

The Zero Day Initiative disclosed a race condition in the Linux kernel's net scheduler true link equalizer component enabling local privilege escalation. Exploitation requires the attacker to first run high-privileged code on the target system. The advisory carries a CVSS rating of 7.5; no CVE id is listed in the disclosure text.

ZDI Published Advisories·Aug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Advisory

ZDI-26-688: Linux Kernel OpenvSwitch Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI discloses Linux Kernel Open vSwitch race condition (CVE-2026-74465) allowing low-privileged local attackers to escalate privileges, CVSS 7.8.

ZDI-26-688 describes a race condition local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel's Open vSwitch implementation, tracked as CVE-2026-74465 with a CVSS rating of 7.8. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system. Successful exploitation grants elevated privileges on affected installations.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 14, 05:00 UTC · 3d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-744651

OVSwrap: 13-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Become Root

Security Affairs·Aug 5, 14:24 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Exploit / PoCCVE-2026-64531

CVE-2026-82583, CVE-2026-78224, CVE-2026-82578: NextGen Mirth Connect SQL injection and XXE

CISA advisory ICSMA-26-253-01 covers three NextGen Mirth Connect flaws, including SQL injection and XXE, with testing performed against version 4.5.2.

CISA has published ICS Medical Advisory ICSMA-26-253-01 covering three vulnerabilities in NextGen Mirth Connect, the open-source healthcare integration engine. The flaws include SQL injection and XML external entity (XXE) injection, tracked as CVE-2026-82583, CVE-2026-78224 and CVE-2026-82578, with testing performed against version 4.5.2. The findings were announced on the oss-security mailing list by researcher Abhinav Agarwal on September 11.

oss-security·Sep 11, 13:08 UTC · 5d agoVulnerability 2 sourcesCVE-2026-82583CVE-2026-78224CVE-2026-825781

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·Sep 10, 12:00 UTC · 6d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-87020

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

browser-use released Jev Ultrafast, an open-source browser agent that uses a dynamic, indexed action space for web automation.

Hacker News is linking to the browser-use Jev Ultrafast GitHub repository, described as a browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space. The submission reached 40 points and 4 comments. The source text contains only submission metadata, so architecture and benchmark details are not available.

Hacker News · AI·03:12 UTC · 5h agoAI tools & infraHN 40↑ · 4 comments

Plesk Backup Manager Flaw Lets Low-Privileged Users Gain Root Access to Servers

CVE-2026-68488 in Plesk Backup Manager lets low-privileged subscription users exploit a symlink race during restores to gain root on Linux servers.

CVE-2026-68488 is a symlink race condition in Plesk Obsidian for Linux Backup Manager during subscription-content restore operations, allowing a user with Panel and FTP access to change ownership of files outside their subscription and escalate to full root access. Affected versions are Plesk for Linux 18.0.80.6 and earlier and 18.0.79.10 and earlier; Plesk for Windows is not affected. Patches are available in 18.0.80.7 and 18.0.79.11 or later. The flaw requires valid subscription access, so it is not unauthenticated remote code execution, but successful exploitation yields complete server compromise, especially dangerous in shared-hosting and multi-tenant deployments.

Cyber Security News·Sep 13, 04:58 UTC · 4d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-684881