Critical Gitea Flaw Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Org
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Top 10 Best Container Security Tools in 2026
2026 roundup ranks Aqua, Sysdig, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Snyk and CrowdStrike among the ten best container security tools across build-ship-run.
Buyer's guide compares ten container security products by lifecycle fit: Aqua leads full lifecycle, Sysdig leads runtime detection via Falco and eBPF, Wiz offers agentless graph visibility, Snyk covers developer-first shift-left. It notes Trivy and Falco as free production-grade open-source foundations. The guide argues standalone container security is increasingly absorbed into CNAPP platforms from Palo Alto, Wiz and CrowdStrike.
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Identifying a BOLA Vulnerability in Harbor, a Cloud
Unit 42 found a BOLA flaw, CVE-2024-22278 (CVSS 6.4), letting Maintainers improperly alter Harbor project metadata; fixed in versions 2.9.5, 2.10.3, and 2.11.0.
Unit 42 researchers identified a broken object-level authorization flaw, CVE-2024-22278, in Harbor, a CNCF-graduated cloud-native container registry with 1.8 million downloads. The flaw (CVSS 6.4) lets users with the Maintainer role create, update, and delete project metadata, actions reserved for ProjectAdmin, risking data exposure, integrity compromise, and circumvention of vulnerability scanning. Harbor patched the issue in versions 2.9.5, 2.10.3, and 2.11.0. The finding came from Unit 42's automated BOLA detection tool built on generative AI.
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ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely
Stacklok's open-source ToolHive runs Model Context Protocol servers in isolated containers with per-request identity enforcement, audit logging and a signed registry.
ToolHive, shipped under Apache 2.0, containersizes MCP servers locally via Docker or Podman or in clusters through a Kubernetes operator, applying permissions, network filtering, and secrets management. The platform includes a Registry Server implementing the official MCP Registry API with signing and provenance verification, a Virtual MCP Server gateway with OIDC/OAuth single sign-on and OpenTelemetry traces, and a desktop Portal for one-click installs. The browser-based cloud UI is retired, so the desktop app and CLI are the supported rollout paths.
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How to correlate Kubernetes audit logs with container runtime data
Elastic Security Labs shows how to join Kubernetes audit logs with Defend for Containers runtime data to investigate service account abuse and container escapes.
Elastic Security Labs demonstrates correlating Kubernetes audit logs with Defend for Containers (D4C) runtime telemetry in Elastic. In an Amazon EKS lab, a compromised workload service account performed discovery, read secrets, minted a token, created a privileged pod, and execed into it to attempt a container escape via nsenter and chroot. The escape wrappers appeared only in the decoded Kubernetes audit requestURI, not in runtime process events. The post covers join fields, prebuilt EQL sequence rules, and continues the control-plane correlation thread from the TeamPCP container attack scenario and the Hugging Face intrusion write-up.
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What It Took to Reach 1 Billion Build Manifests
Chainguard doubled container build manifests to over 1 billion in six months, powered by Factory 2.0's agentic self-correcting rebuild system.
Chainguard reports growing from 500 million to over 1 billion container build manifests in six months, across more than 3,000 unique images and 675,000 image versions. Its Factory 2.0 system, built on the purpose-built Chainguard OS, uses an agentic reconciliation engine called DriftlessAF to decide when to rebuild across thousands of interdependent projects without human intervention. All artifacts ship with SLSA Level 3 provenance, Sigstore signatures, and full SBOMs.
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We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
Strix autonomous hacking agent extracted a working GitHub token with repo admin rights from Baseten's public Harbor image; Baseten rotated it next day.
Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, scanned *.baseten.co without credentials and found a public Harbor container registry project anonymously exposing the baseten/baseten-app image. A GitHub personal access token for basetenbot, embedded in Docker build history since March 2023, still worked in July 2026 and granted admin/push rights to basetenlabs/baseten, flux-cd, and homebrew-tap plus read/write on private customer repos. Baseten, valued at $13 billion, confirmed the issue as critical and rotated the token within a day.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Metasploit Framework automatically updates its module metadata JSON in routine maintenance commit.
The Metasploit Framework repository received an automatic update to module_metadata_base.json, the metadata file that tracks module information. No specific new vulnerability, exploit module, or feature is described in the commit message. This is routine repository maintenance rather than a notable security event.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Routine automated Metasploit Framework commit updating module metadata, with no disclosed vulnerability or exploitation activity.
The Metasploit Framework repository received an automatic update to its module_metadata_base.json file. The commit text contains no vulnerability details, CVE references, or new exploit modules. This is routine maintenance activity on the open-source penetration testing framework.
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Credentialed Pre-Port Discovery: Don't Probe the Host, Ask it
Rapid7's version 8.58 adds credentialed pre-port discovery, letting scan engines query hosts for listening TCP/UDP ports instead of network probing.
Rapid7 documents credentialed pre-port discovery, available from version 8.58 as an off-by-default per-template option under Asset Discovery. The scan engine authenticates with existing SSH, Scan Assistant, or Windows credentials and receives the host's authoritative list of listening TCP and UDP ports, skipping the network port scan. Hosts without matching credentials silently fall back to network port scanning. Trade-offs include reporting firewall-blocked ports the engine cannot reach, longer scans, and early termination findings caused by repeated connection failures.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Metasploit Framework's automated pipeline refreshed its module metadata file, a routine repository maintenance commit introducing no new modules or exploits.
An automated Metasploit Framework commit updated module_metadata_base.json, the metadata database consumed by module tooling. The change is routine maintenance and contains no new exploit modules or vulnerability content.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Routine automated Metasploit Framework commit updates module_metadata_base.json with new module metadata.
The Metasploit Framework repository received an automated commit updating module_metadata_base.json, the file that tracks module metadata for the framework. This is routine maintenance accompanying new or updated exploit modules rather than a standalone disclosure. No vulnerability details, CVEs, or exploitation evidence are included.
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CertiFlash: A Formal Verification Framework for Flash Translation Layers in Computational Solid State Drives
CertiFlash provides machine-checked formal verification of SSD flash translation layers, proving isolation, integrity, and ownership invariants to prevent tenant data leaks.
CertiFlash is an open-source formal verification framework for Flash Translation Layers (FTL) in computational SSDs, mechanized in the Rocq proof assistant. It shows that a faulty FTL can corrupt device state at five surfaces (e.g., leaking data between tenants or dropping integrity tags), demonstrated on a DaisyPlus OpenSSD. Designers prove once that every operation of a general FTL model preserves a global invariant covering mapping, isolation, integrity, ownership, and allocation; new designs need only discharge five hypotheses. Across four case studies, added effort was 27-3,231 lines against a 16,489-line framework.
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MicroHasTEE: Bare-Metal Haskell for Type-Level Peripheral Ownership on Armv8-M
MicroHasTEE expresses TrustZone secure and non-secure firmware as one typed Haskell program, catching peripheral-ownership inconsistencies at compile time.
MicroHasTEE is a multiparty Haskell framework that models both TrustZone firmware images as participants in a single typed program, using type-level capability ledgers to track peripheral acquisition, configuration, transfer, and finalization. MicroHs compiles the shared program twice to produce separate bare-metal Secure and Non-secure firmware images. The framework rejects inconsistent resource use, post-configuration attribution changes, wrong-domain callbacks, and calls to unregistered Secure services. A door-lock case study on an STM32U5 Nucleo board produced images of 232.7 KiB and 228.4 KiB of flash with roughly 220 KiB of SRAM per domain.
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Top 10 Best Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions in 2026
A 2026 MDM buyer guide ranks ten solutions, recommending Microsoft Intune for Microsoft 365 estates and Jamf for Apple-only environments.
A 2026 buyer guide evaluates ten mobile device management solutions, leading with Microsoft Intune as the default for Microsoft 365 organizations and Jamf for Apple estates. It recommends choosing the enrolment model before selecting a vendor and clarifying BYOD visibility to prevent privacy disputes. Kandji, Mosyle, Omnissa Workspace ONE, ManageEngine, Scalefusion, and Hexnode are covered as alternatives. Guidance ties MDM to Zero Trust data access policies via Apple User Enrolment and Android work profiles.
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Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 2nd)
A SANS ISC guest diary describes batch.py, a Python tool that consolidates honeypot logs and enriches IOCs with threat intelligence data.
Written by a SANS.edu BACS intern, the diary explains analysis of the DShield Honeypot-Omaha sensor, which uses Cowrie to emulate SSH and Telnet and log attacker activity. The author's batch.py script implements a four-phase pipeline with SHA-256-generated master and guest authentication to consolidate JSON and log files, correlate data via external APIs, and produce MITRE, CVE, geolocation, threat-score and fingerprint enrichment for investigated indicators.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Automated Metasploit Framework commit updating module_metadata_base.json to reflect newly added or modified exploit modules.
An automated commit updated module_metadata_base.json in the rapid7/metasploit-framework repository. The routine maintenance change reflects newly added or modified Metasploit modules and carries no standalone security significance.
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Top 10 Best Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) Tools in 2026
2026 CIEM guide ranks Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Okta, Entra Permissions Management and specialists Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic for cloud entitlement right-sizing.
Buyer's guide covers ten CIEM products across three market routes: CNAPP-bundled (Wiz, Prisma Cloud), identity-suite (Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt) and specialists (Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic). It cites machine identities outnumbering humans 10:1 plus effective-permissions sprawl as core drivers, with JIT elevation as the fix. Notable consolidation includes Tenable acquiring Ermetic and Zscaler acquiring Canonic.
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12 Best CWPP Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
CWPP comparison favors Sysdig for container runtime depth, Prisma Cloud for workload breadth, and Aqua for cloud-native lifecycle security.
An editorial comparison of twelve CWPP solutions covers Trend Micro, Aqua, Prisma Cloud, Illumio, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Fidelis, CrowdStrike and others, with pricing models and category notes. It names Sysdig (Falco lineage) the leader in Kubernetes/container runtime depth and Prisma Cloud the breadth benchmark across hosts, containers, and serverless. It flags Illumio as microsegmentation and Fidelis as NDR/XDR rather than classic CWPP.
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Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise
Microsoft tracks ongoing cloud intrusions where passkey-themed helpdesk lures enable AiTM credential theft, MFA persistence, and SharePoint data theft.
Microsoft Security Research is tracking active cloud-based intrusions, observed since May 2026, that begin with helpdesk impersonation calls and SMS lures urging urgent passkey, MFA, or SSO updates. The lures lead to adversary-in-the-middle phishing or device-code authentication flows that capture credentials and session tokens or grant actor access, after which the actors add authentication methods, conduct Microsoft Graph reconnaissance, and download SharePoint and OneDrive content via REST APIs. Phishing domains embed victim organization names as subdomains (e.g., contoso.add-passkey[.]com), are often registered with Nicenic, and go operational within hours. Microsoft advises revoking sessions and removing unauthorized authentication methods for confirmed compromises.
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Survey of filesystem MCP servers: how the "sandboxed filesystem" boundary is enforced (one breach, four defended-by-design)
Survey finds one filesystem MCP server vulnerable to a symlink-based sandbox escape while four others are defended by design.
A survey of five filesystem MCP servers assessed how each enforces its path-confinement boundary against symlink escapes in recursive directory walkers. The iceener/files-stdio-mcp-server is vulnerable to a read-side sandbox escape. The other four are defended by design or make no confinement claim. The author describes the vulnerability class as small but real.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Automated Metasploit Framework commit refreshes module_metadata_base.json with no new exploit content or vulnerability details.
An automated commit updated module_metadata_base.json in the Rapid7 Metasploit Framework repository. The change reflects routine metadata maintenance and introduces no new modules, exploits, or vulnerability information.
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Code to Cloud Platform Archives
Unit 42 archive page for Code to Cloud platform product-category articles; no new research or announcements.
This Unit 42 archive page lists product-category posts about Palo Alto Networks' Code to Cloud platform, which secures public cloud environments, SaaS applications and remote locations. It contains no new research, incidents, or announcements.
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The 12 Best Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions, Compared and Priced
A comparison of 12 MDM platforms ranks Microsoft Intune as best value for Microsoft 365 estates and Jamf, Kandji, and Mosyle for Apple fleets.
The buyer's guide compares 12 mobile device management (MDM) products, naming Microsoft Intune best value since it is included in Microsoft 365 E3/E5, and Jamf, Kandji, and Mosyle as Apple specialists with day-one OS support and automated compliance remediation. Eight of the twelve publish rates; per-device pricing punishes multi-device users, while Microsoft, Omnissa, and IBM offer per-user options. Free tiers from Mosyle, Miradore, and ManageEngine support genuine small deployments.
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automatic module_metadata_base.json update
Metasploit Framework pushed an automated update to its module_metadata_base.json module metadata file.
This repository commit is an automated update to the Metasploit Framework's module_metadata_base.json file. No new modules, vulnerabilities or exploit changes are described in the commit message.
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Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner
Elastic documents four persistent REVSTEALER-linked tools (ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, LockAppHost); LockAppHost disables Windows Update and Defender to run a crypto miner.
Elastic Security Labs identified four previously unreported executables tied to REVSTEALER, a commercial Windows infostealer sold since at least February 2026: ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and LockAppHost. LockAppHost abuses CMSTP for elevation, adds Microsoft Defender exclusions, disables five Windows Update services and 13 scheduled tasks, then hides a miner in legitimate Windows processes; other modules steal wallets, clipboard-swap crypto addresses, and turn victims into reverse proxies. The components share REVSTEALER tradecraft including packer, runtime function resolution, and Polygon smart-contract backup configuration (EtherHiding). Elastic's detection rule matched about 4,700 VirusTotal samples over the past year; distribution uses hijacked YouTube channels promoting game cheats and a fake 'Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop' app.
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Linux Detection Engineering - Local Privilege Escalation
Elastic details a layered detection framework for Linux local privilege escalation, covering 2026's copy-on-write bug wave and LLM-assisted discovery.
Elastic Security Labs describes how most Linux local privilege escalations share a common host flow — an unprivileged process launched from a writable path becoming root — and proposes layered detections combining general outcome-based rules with per-technique rules in Elastic Defend and Auditd. It tracks 13 recent LPE disclosures, seven of which share a copy-on-write/zero-copy bug class, including Copy Fail, DirtyFrag, Fragnesia, DirtyDecrypt, DirtyClone, pedit COW, and RefluXFS. Qualys attributes RefluXFS to an LLM-assisted research effort with Anthropic using Claude Mythos Preview, and another bug is credited to an LLM-assisted workflow. Detection and endpoint rules are published in Elastic's detection-rules and protections-artifacts repositories.
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ZDI-26-639: Oracle VirtualBox VMSVGA Heap-based Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
ZDI disclosed a heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle VirtualBox's VMSVGA component (CVE-2026-71116) enabling local privilege escalation.
Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-639, a CVSS 7.5 heap-based buffer overflow in the VMSVGA component of Oracle VirtualBox. Local attackers who already execute high-privileged code on the guest system can leverage the flaw to escalate privileges on affected installations. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-71116. No exploitation is reported.
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