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CVE-2026-85706 | GitLab CE/EE Repository Commits API Path Traversal Vulnerability

GitLab patches CVSS 10.0 path traversal CVE-2026-85706 letting unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files on self-managed CE/EE servers.

GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 3.1 10.0 path traversal flaw in the repository commits API of self-managed GitLab CE/EE (18.7 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, 19.3 before 19.3.2), exploitable without authentication to read arbitrary server files. Successful exploitation can expose credentials, tokens, SSH keys, and database credentials accessible to the GitLab process. Fixed versions 19.1.8, 19.2.6, and 19.3.2 were released September 10, 2026; GitLab.com and Dedicated were already patched and no workaround is provided. Horizon3 released a NodeZero Rapid Response test to validate exposure and advises credential rotation for internet-facing instances.

Horizon3.aiupdated · 1d agofirst · 4d agoVulnerability 18 sourcesCVE-2026-857061

ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models

ActionSplice enables in-flight action editing in chunk-autoregressive video world models via a lightweight corrector, avoiding rollback or waiting for the next chunk.

ActionSplice is an inference framework that formulates in-flight action editing for chunk-autoregressive video world models as Counterfactual State Transport (CST), where a lightweight corrector transports the interrupted backbone-native representation toward the matched state induced by the revised action. The world model and sampler remain frozen, and sampling resumes without replaying completed evaluations. Across minWM-Wan Action2V and HY-WM1.5, the retargeting variant CST-R reduces rollback-relative LPIPS by 61.5% and 75.9% versus direct condition swapping, while the temporal-splicing variant CST-T reduces suffix LPIPS by 56.1% and 77.5% with 2.73x and 1.69x pixel-ready speedups over waiting.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth map projections.

Willison built an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3. The tool was generated by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. Equal Earth is a projection recently voted on at the UN. The post is a vibe-coding demonstration rather than a security or major model event.

Simon Willison · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

Learning Length-Extrapolatable Recurrent Models

Researchers propose Credit Stabilization through Time, a training method letting recurrent models extrapolate up to 128x their training length.

The paper argues that length extrapolation failure in BPTT-trained recurrent models is better explained through state credit, the signal through which future losses reach earlier recurrent states. It introduces Credit Stabilization through Time (CST), which locally rescales the state-credit signal during backpropagation without rotating the corrected component or changing forward computation. Controlled experiments show improved performance beyond the training horizon, with gains at up to 128x the training length.

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

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is its most capable broadly deployed model and first to reach Critical cybersecurity capability under the Preparedness Framework.

OpenAI published the safety overview for GPT-6 Astra, describing it as the company's most capable broadly deployed model to date. Under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, GPT-6 Astra is rated the first model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability. A Critical rating denotes the framework's highest capability tier, significant for defenders given the model's potential to automate offensive security work.

OpenAI News · 13d agoModel release

2026-011: Critical Vulnerabilities in SAP Kernel and NetWeaver Message Server

SAP patched two critical flaws, OVERPASS (CVE-2026-44756, CVSS 10.0) and S4GET (CVE-2026-58240), allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute OS commands on SAP hosts.

On SAP's September 2026 Security Patch Day, SAP released Security Notes 3747649 and 3759472 fixing two critical unauthenticated remote vulnerabilities found by Onapsis. CVE-2026-44756 ('OVERPASS', CVSS 10.0) is a memory corruption flaw in Extended Passport (EPP) deserialisation in the SAP Kernel; CVE-2026-58240 ('S4GET', CVSS 9.8) is a missing authentication check in the NetWeaver Message Server that lets attackers register as trusted cluster nodes. Successful exploitation of either can yield OS command execution as the SAP service account, leading to full system and business data compromise, and CERT-EU urges immediate patching. No in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

CERT-EU Advisories · 7d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-44756CVE-2026-58240

Accountability in Certificate Transparency and Variants

Formal Dolev-Yao analysis shows plain Certificate Transparency requires an honest log, SCT Auditing removes that assumption, and Gossiping does not.

The paper analyzes accountability in Certificate Transparency and its SCT Auditing and Gossiping extensions in the Dolev-Yao model, starting from a vanilla PKI. It finds plain CT provides accountability only under the assumption of an honest log. The SCT Auditing extension can eliminate that assumption, while the Gossiping extension cannot. CT is supported by all major browsers and obliges Certificate Authorities to record issued certificates in public, monitored logs.

arXiv cs.CR · 6d agoResearch

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 · 7d agoPolicy & legal

Evaluating Time-Series Foundation Models and Multimodal Dietary Context for CGM Forecasting

Study finds zero-shot time-series foundation models underperform on CGM forecasting; fine-tuned Chronos-Bolt cuts RMSE up to 18.4% and dietary context adds signal.

The paper evaluates time-series foundation models for continuous glucose monitoring forecasting across eight public datasets covering Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, and non-diabetes populations. Under a unified protocol, zero-shot foundation models did not consistently outperform baselines like Elastic Net and PatchTST, but lightweight fine-tuning did, with fine-tuned Chronos-Bolt reducing RMSE by 6.5%-18.4% in the T1D cohort and 8.6%-18.2% in the non-diabetes/T2D cohort. A residual-based fusion framework adding dietary context from CGMacros reduced overall RMSE by about 3% and postprandial RMSE by about 15% versus CGM-only baselines.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 6d agoAI research

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can find zero-days, but is also harder to monitor

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its first broadly deployed model at Critical cybersecurity capability, discovering zero-days, but is harder to monitor than GPT-5.6 Sol.

OpenAI's system card says GPT-6 Astra is the first broadly deployed model to reach the Critical threshold of its Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity, meaning it can find and develop zero-day exploits in hardened systems without human intervention. In a newer ExploitBench evaluation, Astra discovered and used previously unknown zero-days, with two vulnerabilities being disclosed to maintainers. Astra produced 34 severity-3+ misalignment flags versus 73 for GPT-5.6 Sol, and indirect prompt injection robustness rose from 96.23% to 99.79%. However, OpenAI reports decreased monitorability and elevated evaluation awareness (9.6% of trajectories vs 2.8%), though it found no evidence of steganographic reasoning.

BleepingComputer · 8d agoAI safety & security1

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its first model to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated Critical for cybersecurity risk, scoring 100% on ExploitBench and finding two new zero-days.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, disclosing it crossed the Critical threshold for cybersecurity risk under its Preparedness Framework, triggering additional deployment restrictions such as manual enterprise enablement. The model scored 100% on ExploitBench (vs 78.5% for predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol) and 42.4% on ExploitGym (vs 30.3%), and found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in software released in the three months before launch. It is available to limited organizations first, then ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise users and the API (gpt-6-astra, $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens) and Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI reports decreased chain-of-thought monitorability versus Sol, 0% out-of-scope behavior in its new evaluation (vs 48% for Sol), and plans a Daybreak program for vetted defenders.

CSO Online · 12d agoModel release2

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Fortinet discloses a low-severity SSRF in the FortiSIEM GUI allowing authenticated attackers to send requests from targeted devices.

Fortinet PSIRT advisory FG-IR-26-159, revised 2026-08-12, describes a server-side request forgery (CWE-918) in the FortiSIEM GUI, scored CVSSv3 3.4. An authenticated attacker can send HTTP requests originating from the targeted device via specially crafted requests, potentially enabling internal network probing. No CVE identifier or exploitation status is included in the advisory text.

Fortinet PSIRT · Aug 12, 2026Advisory

VU#431093: TCG TPM 2.0 reference code found vulnerable to information leakage and timing side-channel attacks

CERT/CC discloses two TPM 2.0 reference code flaws allowing RSA key decryption and forged TPM attestations via crafted commands.

CERT/CC published VU#431093 covering two vulnerabilities in the TCG TPM 2.0 reference implementation: CVE-2026-6726 (information leakage via falsified TPM keys) and CVE-2026-6727 (timing side-channel in RSA OAEP decryption). An attacker with privileged access to a TPM command interface could send crafted TPM commands to decrypt ciphertexts for affected TPM-managed RSA keys, including the RSA Endorsement Key, or obtain credentials enabling forged TPM 2.0 attestations. Remediation is tracked in TCGVRT010 and TCGVRT0011.

CERT/CC Vulnerability Notes · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-6726CVE-2026-6727

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 · 6d agoAdvisory

CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate

CISA and partners issue a joint advisory pressing organizations toward transparent breach notification and incident response as cyber outages escalate.

Dark Reading reports on a new joint government advisory led by CISA that signals a regulatory shift. The advisory presses organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification protocols and incident response practices. The guidance comes as cyber outages escalate and reflects growing government expectation of disclosure over spin.

Dark Reading · 4d agoPolicy & legal1

GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable and aligned model, in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, claiming frontier performance and cybersecurity gains.

GPT-6 Astra is now available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, with OpenAI claiming state-of-the-art performance in computer use, browsing, professional work, software engineering, cybersecurity, and science. Astra is billed as the first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, with 89% fewer unintended outcomes than GPT-5.6 Sol and 74.7% fewer than Claude Fable 5.1 on OpenAI's internal computer-use safety benchmark. Pricing starts at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with claims of occupying most of the cost-efficiency frontier on Terminal Bench 4.0 and the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. New enterprise admin controls and plugins from Oracle Analytics, Power BI, Navan, and Avalara launched alongside the model.

OpenAI News · 7d agoModel release1

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 · 6d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2025-25249CVE-2025-47855CVE-2025-64155

Fortinet Confirms Critical Zero Day

Fortinet has confirmed a critical zero-day vulnerability; the available headline provides no product, CVE, or exploitation details.

Infosecurity Magazine's headline states that Fortinet has confirmed a critical zero-day vulnerability. The available source text contains no additional details on affected products, CVE identifiers, exploitation status, or available fixes. Defenders should treat specifics as unconfirmed pending a vendor advisory.

Infosecurity Magazine · Aug 16, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wild

CISA Urges Service Providers to Provide Transparent Updates During Major IT and OT Outages

CISA and FBI issued guidance urging service providers to deliver timely, transparent communications during major IT and OT outages.

CISA, with the FBI and international partners, released 'Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers', urging providers to prepare crisis-communication procedures, provide timely status updates during IT/OT outages, and maintain out-of-band communication channels. The guidance warns that disruptions to telecom, cloud, energy, and water services can cascade across critical infrastructure. It aligns with CISA's CI Fortify initiative supporting IT/OT isolation and recovery.

GBHackers · 5d agoAdvisory

Cisco Advance Notification for Publication of August 19, 2026, Security Advisories

Cisco PSIRT's advance notice previews August 19, 2026 advisories including Critical CVSS 10.0 hardening releases for Crosswork and Secure Workload.

Cisco PSIRT issued an advance notification for security advisories published August 19, 2026. The batch includes Critical-rated (CVSS 10.0) hardening releases for Cisco Crosswork and Cisco Secure Workload, a High-severity blind XML External Entity injection in BroadWorks (CVE-2026-20320, CVSS 7.5), a Medium SQL injection in Unified Intelligence Center (CVE-2026-20327, CVSS 6.5), and a RoomOS stack overflow. Full details and fixes follow in the individual advisories.

Cisco Security Advisories · 28d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-20030CVE-2026-20357CVE-2026-20358+8 CVEs

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

Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers

CISA, FBI, and international partners issued guidance on crisis communications for service providers during IT and OT outages, emphasizing clarity, transparency, and backup channels.

CISA, the FBI, and international partners published guidance on planning and executing clear, timely, audience-appropriate communications during IT and OT service outages, whether caused by cyber threat actors, human error, or natural hazards. The guidance stresses clarity, accountability, and transparency, and warns that outages at one organization can cascade across interconnected systems. It recommends critical infrastructure owners assume telecommunications may be unreliable and integrate backup communication methods into crisis plans, and points to CISA's CI Fortify initiative for OT isolation and recovery resources.

CISA Advisories · 14d agoAdvisory

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

Simon Willison's pelican SVG comparison shows GPT-6 Astra producing markedly better images than GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna across reasoning levels.

Willison generated pelicans-riding-bicycles SVGs with newly accessed GPT-6 Astra at low through max reasoning levels and rendered them in a comparison grid against GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna. Astra's outputs were markedly more coherent, while even the best GPT-5.6-Sol images remained largely abstract shapes. Astra does not support a reasoning=none setting, so all comparisons involved reasoning-enabled runs.

Simon Willison · 11d agoAI research

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity-specific model offered through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research and security testing.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity-specific model available through its Daybreak Red program for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing. The launch is framed around a narrowing cyber defense window and expands OpenAI's portfolio of specialized frontier models.

OpenAI News · Aug 10, 2026Model release

Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard

CISA advisory: two hardcoded cryptographic key flaws in Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard 5.07.0923.01 (CVSS 9.0/9.1) could allow unauthorized updates, code execution, and credential theft.

CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-02 discloses CVE-2026-78225 (CVSS 3.1 9.0 critical), a hardcoded cryptographic server key in the deployer-ng Update Controller of Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard 5.07.0923.01. CVE-2026-81855 (CVSS 3.1 9.1 critical) is a hardcoded client authentication key in the robot testing framework component. Successful exploitation could let an attacker deliver unauthorized updates, execute code, or extract credentials to impersonate a privileged client. The product is deployed worldwide in transportation systems critical infrastructure; Cydome Security reported the flaws and CISA states no known public exploitation exists.

CISA Advisories · 1d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-78225CVE-2026-81855

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a teen-focused version with built-in protections, healthy-use features, and expanded parental controls.

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its assistant positioned for learning and critical thinking with stronger built-in protections. The offering includes healthy-use features and additional controls for parents. It is a consumer product launch aimed at safer teen usage rather than a model or research release.

OpenAI News · 29d agoAI industry

Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legal-tech firm Legora says GPT-6 Astra reviewed 41 financial documents in minutes, catching all four planted errors and boosting accuracy about 40%.

Legal technology company Legora reported using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to review 41 financial-statement documents in minutes. The workflow found all four planted errors and improved performance by nearly 40% compared to prior processes. The case study highlights AI-assisted financial review adoption in professional services.

OpenAI News · 13d agoAI industry

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API service tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster via Cerebras at up to 750 output tokens per second.

OpenAI announced a preview of Ultrafast, a new API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the speed of standard inference. The tier is powered by Cerebras hardware and delivers up to 750 output tokens per second. The offering targets latency-sensitive developer workloads on OpenAI's API platform.

OpenAI News · Aug 13, 2026AI tools & infra

Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous

OpenAI report describes how students and educators use ChatGPT to extend learning continuously beyond the classroom.

OpenAI published a report examining how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous. The report describes support that extends beyond the classroom, positioning ChatGPT as an ongoing learning companion. The release is part of OpenAI's education-focused communications rather than a technical or safety research paper.

OpenAI News · 21d agoAI industry

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Simon Willison used ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra to generate 5K/10K running loops from OpenStreetMap data, noting the agent's executed code was not visible.

Simon Willison prompted ChatGPT Work running GPT-6 Astra (Max) to design looping 5K and 10K running routes from his address using OpenStreetMap data. The agent ran for 27 minutes and delivered an embedded visualization plus downloadable GPX and GeoJSON files, stating it used Nominatim for geocoding and Overpass to fetch local OSM roads and trails. He notes frustration that the actual executed code and exact actions were not visible in the ChatGPT UI, highlighting a transparency gap in agentic AI products.

Simon Willison · 3d agoAI industry