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More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches

Multiple attackers are exploiting three JFrog Artifactory CVEs, including critical auth-bypass CVE-2026-82329, to gain admin access and install backdoors.

Wiz confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of all three JFrog Artifactory vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-42018 (high, improper authentication token leak), CVE-2026-42016 (high, privilege escalation), and CVE-2026-82329 (critical, unauthenticated authentication bypass). Starting August 15, attackers chained the first two bugs against self-hosted instances to gain admin access and dropped a custom Rust backdoor for C2; from September 1-8 several attackers exploited CVE-2026-82329. Post-exploitation included persistent admin accounts, Groovy plugins for remote code execution, web shells, token minting, key theft, and reconnaissance. Patching velocity has been slow, with 49-62% of organizations still vulnerable to individual bugs weeks after fixes were released.

The Register · Security·updated Sep 14, 09:27 UTC · 2d ago·first Sep 11, 17:43 UTC · 5d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 7 sourcesCVE-2026-42018CVE-2026-42016CVE-2026-82329

Evaluating the NIST Bugs Framework Against CWE as a Successor for Automated Vulnerability Classification

NIST Bugs Framework evaluation shows it is more structured and automation-friendly than CWE for automated vulnerability classification, with gaps in attribute guidance.

The paper evaluates NIST SP 800-231's Bugs Framework (BF) against CWE as a target for automated CVE classification using a systematically screened corpus of CVE-to-CWE research. An inter-rater study with 2 subject-matter experts mapping 13 CVEs showed strong agreement on BF's cause and operation axes but only fair agreement on the attribute axis. Automated classification was tested across two LLM deployments under different budgets, and findings support BF as more structured and automation-friendly than CWE, though gaps include under-specified attribute guidance and missing fix commits for closed-source software.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 14, 23:18 UTC · 2d agoResearch1

The History Is the Detector: Executing CVE Patch History, End-to-End

BUGSTONE-E2E converts CVE patch history into executable LLM-guided detection rules, yielding 1,033 rules and 644 runtime-verified findings across 14 programs.

The BUGSTONE-E2E framework mines reusable detection rules from verified fixing commits, organized by CWE and language, and applies them through a funnel pipeline that escalates from Tree-sitter anchors and lightweight heuristics to LLM-based agent inspection, runtime verification, and scope-checked patch generation. Built from 19,325 high-severity CVEs published 2022-2026, it produced 1,033 detection rules spanning 56 CWE families, packaged into 172 skills. Applied across 14 programs, it generated runtime evidence for 644 findings, demonstrating that vulnerability history can drive reproducible detection and repair.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 4, 16:40 UTC · 12d agoResearch

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

CISA added five actively exploited JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS flaws to its KEV catalog.

CISA added five actively exploited vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog: CVE-2026-42016 and CVE-2026-42018 in JFrog Artifactory, CVE-2026-84869 in ConnectWise ScreenConnect (CVSS 9.9), and CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060 in MikroTik RouterOS. The Artifactory bugs are chained with CVE-2026-82329 to gain administrative control, deploy malicious Groovy plugins, and install Rust-based backdoors. CERT Polska dubbed the RouterOS chain 'MikroTrick'; FCEB agencies must patch between September 13 and 25, 2026.

The Hacker News·updated Sep 14, 14:08 UTC · 2d ago·first Sep 12, 15:54 UTC · 4d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-42016CVE-2026-42018CVE-2026-84869+3 CVEs2· 1 read

An Empirical Analysis of CodeQL False Positives and Query Refinements for Java Vulnerabilities

Study of 167 Java CVE instances finds CodeQL false positives follow recurring patterns; query refinements remove 81.8% of reviewed ones.

Researchers ran CodeQL's Java security query suite on 167 CVE instances from 110 projects, manually reviewing 500 sampled false-positive paths and building a five-category taxonomy led by Missed Path Constraint or Sanitization (36.6%), Benign Execution Context (29.4%), and Missing Trust Boundary Modeling (27.6%). Guided by the taxonomy, query-level refinements removed 81.8% of reviewed false positives and 15.8% of reported paths across the selected queries while retaining 7 of 8 true positives. To address generalization, agentic coding tools given the refinement patterns as templates adapted them to new projects successfully in 56% and 62% of tasks, versus 28% without guidance.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 3, 22:48 UTC · 13d agoResearch1

Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze

Gartner analyst Craig Lawson argues AI bug-hunters like Anthropic's Mythos have audited major codebases so thoroughly that 2027 could see fewer severe vulnerabilities.

Speaking at Gartner's IT Symposium in Australia, research VP Craig Lawson said AI-driven bug hunting, exemplified by Anthropic's Mythos, is uncovering flaws at unprecedented scale, citing Microsoft shipping over 970 patches in one week and a recent series of CVEs in historically secure OpenBSD. He argued vendors are also using AI to find bugs before release, retiring technical debt and shrinking future zero-day avenues. Lawson predicts 2027 may be the first year with a net drop in vulnerability severity, if not aggregate counts. He also expects AI to enable near-continuous red-teaming and faster fixes, such as generating F5 iRule syntax for virtual patches via Gemini.

The Register · Security·05:54 UTC · 17h agoIndustry1

Re: Vulnerabilities fixed in libxml2-2.15.4

libxml2 2.15.4 patches two flaws including a heap buffer overflow in xmlDictAddQString tracked as CVE-2026-86137 and CVE-2026-86138.

libxml2 releases before 2.15.4 are affected by an integer overflow in xmlDictAddQString in dict.c that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow, tracked as CVE-2026-86137 and CVE-2026-86138. The oss-security post from Debian's Salvatore Bonaccorso flags the fixed release for downstream tracking. No exploitation is mentioned in the disclosure.

oss-security·Sep 5, 12:16 UTC · 11d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-86137CVE-2026-86138

Zoom Patches “Zoomsday” Zero-Click Flaw Enabling Remote Code Execution

Zoom patched CVE-2026-53413, a zero-click annotation flaw dubbed "Zoomsday" allowing remote code execution on meeting participants' devices across all platforms.

Zoom patched four vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-53413, a stack buffer overflow in CAnnoFormatBlock::Deserialize in the annotation protocol that allows zero-click remote code execution on another participant's device. A Security also found CVE-2026-53414, a buffer overread enabling denial-of-service crashes, and CVE-2026-53415, a use-after-free Zoom had already discovered internally. Updates shipped for Workplace 7.1.5 and 7.0.6, Rooms 7.1.5, and Meeting SDK 7.1.5 across all supported platforms.

Security Affairs·Aug 11, 17:48 UTC · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-53413CVE-2026-53414CVE-2026-53415

Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable?

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth researchers present VulStyle, a stylometry-based vulnerability detector that also exposes benchmark reliability problems.

VulStyle combines stylometric features with syntax-tree structure and source tokens, pre-trained on about 4.9 million functions across seven programming languages and fine-tuned on five vulnerability detection datasets. It beat token-only detectors on some benchmarks but its F1 drops sharply on DiverseVul, which the authors link to noisy labels inflating reported performance across popular datasets. The authors argue style-aware detection should be harder to evade but did not test this empirically, and they note that uniform LLM-generated code may strip away the individual developer style the model depends on.

Help Net Security·Aug 24, 04:21 UTC · 23d agoResearch1

Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human

Echo's analysis found only 1,900 of 23,019 Claude Mythos-found vulnerabilities were externally reviewed, 90.8% held up, but the model overstated most severities.

Echo analyzed results from Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview vulnerability sweep across 281 open-source projects, which produced 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities, of which only 1,900 were externally reviewed. Of those, 90.8% held up as real, 1,451 of 1,596 maintainer reports were acknowledged, 97 fixes landed upstream, and 88 became advisories, but 14 of the 27 CVE-assigned severity ratings mismatched independent scoring, mostly overstated. On Anthropic's SpiderMonkey benchmark, Claude Mythos turned known crashes into working code execution exploits in 72.4% of 250 trials, versus below 1% for Claude Opus 4.6. Echo cautions the reviewed sample likely was not randomly drawn, so the accuracy figure may not generalize to the other 21,119 unreviewed candidates.

Help Net Security·Sep 4, 00:00 UTC · 12d agoAI research

VEX-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Assessing Exploitability of Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Introduces VEX-Bench, 75 expert-labeled real-world cases testing whether LLM agents can assess supply chain vulnerability exploitability; frontier models reach about 80% F1.

VEX-Bench is the first benchmark evaluating LLM agents on assessing whether upstream dependency vulnerabilities are exploitable in downstream projects, with 75 real-world expert-labeled cases across Python, Java, and Go mined from GitHub. Nine models across three agent harnesses were evaluated; GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6 reach approximately 80% F1 on binary vulnerability-status classification, but only GPT-5.5 surpasses 70% macro-F1 on fine-grained justification classification. The gap highlights the difficulty of moving beyond binary exploitability calls to explaining exploitability reasons, unlike prior benchmarks targeting zero-day settings.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 7, 22:52 UTC · 9d agoResearch1

[webapps] webpack_devserver 5.2.5 - CSRF

Exploit-DB published a cross-site request forgery proof of concept for webpack_devserver 5.2.5.

Exploit-DB lists a webapps CSRF proof-of-concept against webpack_devserver version 5.2.5. The flaw affects the local webpack development server, where cross-site requests could be issued against it. No CVE id is cited in the entry and no active exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB·Aug 17, 00:00 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

[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-DB·Aug 31, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 115 Vulnerabilities

Google and Mozilla patch 115 vulnerabilities across Chrome 153 and Firefox 156, including three critical Chrome bugs; no exploitation reported.

Google's Chrome 153 (153.0.8010.47/.48 for Windows/macOS) fixes 42 flaws, including three critical: CVE-2026-91726, an out-of-bounds read in WebGL, and use-after-free bugs CVE-2026-91721 and CVE-2026-91749 in Internals and Workers. Mozilla's Firefox 156 resolves 73 vulnerabilities, including 29 high-severity use-after-free and privilege escalation issues, with related fixes in Thunderbird and Firefox ESR branches. Neither vendor reports any of the defects being exploited in the wild.

SecurityWeek·10:28 UTC · 12h agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-91726CVE-2026-91721CVE-2026-91749

[webapps] flyto_core 2.26.7 - Server-Side Request Forgery

Exploit-DB published a server-side request forgery proof of concept for flyto_core 2.26.7.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept for server-side request forgery affecting flyto_core version 2.26.7. SSRF flaws can allow attackers to make arbitrary requests from the server toward internal resources. No CVE id is cited and no in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB·Aug 17, 00:00 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

Google patches actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-85046)

Google patches actively exploited Chrome zero-day CVE-2026-85046, a V8 type confusion bug enabling sandboxed code execution via crafted HTML pages.

Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-85046, a CVSS 8.8 type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine exploited in the wild. The bug, reported by researcher Salvatore Gulizia (Serotav) on August 4, 2026, allows arbitrary code execution inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page; the researcher described it as a V8 compiler bug enabling arbitrary read/write on the JavaScript heap. Fixes shipped in Chrome 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows and macOS and 152.0.7977.82 for Linux, and this is the sixth Chrome zero-day Google has fixed in 2026.

Help Net Security·Sep 8, 06:24 UTC · 8d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-85046CVE-2026-2441CVE-2026-3909+3 CVEs

MongoDB security advisory (AV26-911)

Canada's Cyber Centre warns MongoDB Java Driver and Laravel MongoDB (PHP) have vulnerabilities fixed in versions 5.11.1 and 5.11.0.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (AV26-911) reports MongoDB vulnerabilities affecting the Java Driver prior to 5.11.1 and Laravel MongoDB (PHP) prior to 5.11.0. Fixed issues include a native heap use-after-free during cancellation racing a KMS credential fetch in reactive encryption (JAVA-6276) and a query builder fix forcing literal equality when 3-arg where clauses use '=' with array values (PHPLARA-260). Administrators are urged to review the advisories and apply the updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 11, 13:38 UTC · 5d agoAdvisory1

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

Commentary argues that an unverified rumor of a software bug is now enough for researchers or attackers to develop a working exploit.

A short blog note reflects on how modern exploit development has accelerated to the point that even a mere rumor of a vulnerability can be enough to locate and weaponize a bug. The piece is commentary on the current state of security research and attacker trends rather than a disclosure of a specific flaw.

Lobsters · security·Aug 28, 20:23 UTC · 19d agoIndustry

get the module working against several of the 12.4.3 versions

A Metasploit Framework exploit module was updated to work reliably against several 12.4.3 software versions.

A commit to the Rapid7 Metasploit Framework repository adjusts an existing exploit module so it functions against several 12.4.3 version targets. The change is described as getting the module working against those versions, indicating reliability or compatibility improvements. The commit text does not describe a new vulnerability, exploitation campaign, or affected victims.

Metasploit Framework commits·Sep 9, 11:10 UTC · 7d agoTools1

USN-8737-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Ubuntu patches GNU C Library flaws including a strfmon buffer overflow and tdelete out-of-bounds access that could enable code execution.

Ubuntu issued USN-8737-1 fixing multiple GNU C Library vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-19499 is a buffer overflow in the strfmon function when handling right-justification padding, affecting only Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. CVE-2026-19542 is an out-of-bounds stack array access in the tdelete function. An additional issue involves incorrect memory handling in wordexp with the WRDE_APPEND flag. All issues could potentially cause denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

Ubuntu Security Notices·Sep 8, 15:17 UTC · 8d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-19499CVE-2026-19542

Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q2 2026

Kaspersky's Q2 2026 report tallies vulnerability, exploit, and C2 framework statistics, adding first-ever data on open-source AI framework flaws.

Kaspersky Securelist released its quarterly report on vulnerabilities, exploits, and C2 frameworks for Q2 2026. The report aggregates statistics on vulnerability disclosures and exploit activity for the quarter. For the first time, it also aggregates data on vulnerabilities in open-source AI agents and AI frameworks, extending coverage into the AI software supply chain.

Kaspersky Securelist·Aug 26, 10:00 UTC · 21d agoResearch

Critical Langflow Vulnerability Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise

Attacks exploiting CVE-2026-0768, a critical vulnerability in the Langflow low-code AI platform, are rising amid growing adversary attention this year.

CVE-2026-0768 is a critical vulnerability in Langflow, a low-code AI development platform, with exploitation attacks now rising. Dark Reading notes the platform has drawn increasing adversary attention in 2026. Organizations running exposed Langflow instances face elevated risk and should patch promptly and review instances for compromise.

Dark Reading·Sep 1, 20:48 UTC · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-07681

Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox

Google patches actively exploited Chrome V8 zero-day CVE-2026-87491, an out-of-bounds write enabling sandboxed code execution via crafted HTML pages.

Google released Chrome 153.0.8010.36/.37 fixing 230 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-87491, an out-of-bounds write in the V8 engine that allowed remote code execution inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page and is confirmed to be exploited in the wild. The flaw was reported on August 6, 2026 by Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab, Seoul National University, who received a $2,500 bug bounty. This is the seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. The update also fixes five critical flaws in WebGL and Cast, plus a high WebPackaging use-after-free (CVE-2026-87639) credited to OpenAI Codex Security.

The Hacker News·Sep 9, 09:11 UTC · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-87491CVE-2026-2441CVE-2026-3909+10 CVEs

Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Help Net Security·Aug 6, 00:00 UTC · Aug 6, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-8512

⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More

The Hacker News·Aug 4, 12:16 UTC · Aug 4, 2026RansomwareCVE-2026-50746CVE-2026-50747CVE-2026-50748+45 CVEs

Rust Supply Chain Attack on arrayref: Significant Overlap with DPRK Campaigns

Malicious versions of the Rust crate arrayref executed a compile-time backdoor, with infrastructure overlapping recent DPRK supply chain attacks on Mastra and axios.

Wiz researchers report that malicious versions of the arrayref Rust crate ran a backdoor during compilation, compromising developer build pipelines. The campaign's command-and-control infrastructure significantly overlaps with infrastructure used in recent DPRK supply chain attacks, including campaigns against Mastra and axios. Developers using affected crate versions should audit their builds and review dependencies.

Wiz Blog·Aug 20, 15:56 UTC · 27d agoThreat actor in the wild1