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Datasette 1.0a39 is an alpha security release whose fixes are documented in the Datasette blog post covering it and 0.65.4.
Datasette 1.0a39 is an alpha release in the 1.0 series that also serves as a security release. The fixed vulnerabilities are described in the 'Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases' blog post. The announcement provides no CVE identifiers or further technical detail.
Datasette-publish-fly 1.4 sets force_https in fly.toml, fixes a volume detection bug, and adds support for app-scoped Fly deploy tokens.
Version 1.4 of the datasette-publish-fly plugin for deploying Datasette to Fly.io has been released. It sets force_https=true in fly.toml, fixes a 'Volume could not be found' bug, and adds compatibility with app-scoped deploy tokens. No security vulnerabilities are mentioned in the release notes.
A public Python PoC exploit is available for CVE-2026-23980, an authenticated error-based SQL injection in Apache Superset versions before 6.0.0.
CVE-2026-23980 is a SQL injection flaw (CWE-89) in Apache Superset affecting all releases before 6.0.0, exploitable via the sqlExpression and where parameters by authenticated users with read-level access. A public repository containing a Python exploit.py proof-of-concept has been released, reducing attacker effort against exposed instances. Apache disclosed the issue on February 24, 2026 and fixed it in Superset 6.0.0. Defenders should upgrade and monitor logs for malformed queries, database errors, and unusual activity from low-privilege accounts.
Simon Willison released datasette-mcp 0.2, changing MCP SQL results to object arrays for better small-model usability.
Datasette-mcp 0.2 changes the execute_sql 'rows' output from an array of arrays to an array of objects, helping weaker models avoid losing track of positional column mappings. The plugin now depends on mcp>=2.1.1. This is the first non-alpha release, and the author reports using it extensively.
git.kernel.org spends more CPU rendering commit pages for abusive AI-era scrapers than on all legitimate access including git clones.
Konstantin Ryabitsev reports that abusive crawler 'background radiation' at git.kernel.org consumes more CPU cycles rendering commit HTML than all legitimate access, with 14 cores across five geo-distributed nodes dedicated to scraper traffic. Simon Willison highlights the implications for crawlable web services like Datasette.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a tool that rewrites git commit messages from the first edited commit, with a timestamped revert branch.
Simon Willison built commit-rewriter 0.1, a small web app for editing git commit messages, motivated by cleaning up Datasette security release commits that contained coding agent cruft and private issue IDs. It runs via 'uvx commit-rewriter path/to/repo' and creates a timestamped branch of the repo state before rewriting every commit from the first edited one to the most recent, allowing easy reversion.
DataFlex-RL benchmark of 13 RLVR data policies on Qwen2.5-7B finds none reproducibly beats uniform sampling under matched GRPO training.
DataFlex-RL is an evaluation platform comparing rollout-selection, reweighting, and mixture data policies for RLVR under a common GRPO recipe. Across 13 configurations and 12 matched seeds with Qwen2.5-7B-Base on 12 math, logic, and science benchmarks, uniform GRPO improved domain-balanced accuracy by 7.76 points, but no alternative policy achieved a statistically significant improvement. A corrected 12-seed Llama-3.1-8B-Base extension found no consistent winner, and math-heavy evaluation summaries were negatively correlated (-0.33) with domain-balanced summaries.
Palo Alto Unit 42 archive page describing Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), a cloud architecture unifying SD-WAN with SWG, CASB, FWaaS and ZTNA services.
Category archive page defining SASE as a cloud-native architecture that converges SD-WAN with security functions such as SWG, CASB, FWaaS and ZTNA into one cloud service. It frames SASE as a shift from separate networking and security disciplines to unified, cloud-delivered security and connectivity. The page contains no news, incident, vulnerability or research findings.
Cisco patched an XXE flaw in BroadWorks' OCI XML parser letting unauthenticated remote attackers read sensitive files from the filesystem.
Cisco BroadWorks permits external entity resolution by default in its Open Client Interface XML parser, enabling out-of-band blind XXE injection. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send crafted XML to the OCI-P provisioning service and read sensitive configuration files with BroadWorks user privileges. Cisco has released software updates and no workarounds are available.
Datamimic is an open-source test data generation tool aimed at keeping coding agents from inventing their own test fixtures.
A Hacker News discussion (40 points) highlights Datamimic, an open-source rapiddweller GitHub project for generating realistic synthetic test data. The tool targets AI coding agents, aiming to prevent them from fabricating their own inconsistent test worlds. Only the repository link was shared, so details are limited.
Apache OpenNLP CVE-2026-67211: unbounded map pre-sizing in SymSpellModelSerializer enables out-of-memory denial of service in opennlp-symspell 3.0.0-M4/M5.
CVE-2026-67211 affects the opennlp-symspell artifact in versions 3.0.0-M4 and 3.0.0-M5 only. The SymSpellModelSerializer.create() method performs unbounded map pre-sizing, allowing crafted input to trigger out-of-memory denial of service. Releases 1.x and 2.x are unaffected because the spellcheck extension was introduced in 3.0.0-M4; the issue is resolved in 3.0.0-M6.
Cloudflare launches invitation-only Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation within Managed Defense, using OpenAI Daybreak models and WAF context to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities.
Cloudflare announced early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, an invitation-only service within Cloudflare Managed Defense. The service uses OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, via the Daybreak Defense Network to hunt and validate vulnerabilities in customer-authorized codebases across Workers and proxied applications. Findings are prioritized using production traffic, WAF rule, and security event context, and proposed patches and WAF mitigations are automatically checked before customer review.
Canada's Cyber Centre relayed National Instruments advisories for memory corruption, out-of-bounds read, and out-of-bounds write flaws in LabVIEW versions.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published control systems advisory AV26-856 covering National Instruments LabVIEW. Affected versions include releases before 23.0.0, 23.3.10, 24.3.7, 25.3.5, and 26.3.1. The flaws include memory corruption, an integer conversion out-of-bounds read, and an integer overflow out-of-bounds write. Users and administrators are urged to review the links and apply NI security updates.
Akamai research details CVE-2026-75650 (StyleSmuggler), a critical remote code execution flaw in Adobe Commerce and Magento.
Akamai Security Research published analysis of CVE-2026-75650, dubbed StyleSmuggler, a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms. The research appears in Akamai's security blog. Full technical details were not available from the item metadata.
ZDI disclosed a server-side request forgery in Fabric.js loadFromJSON (CVE-2026-19504) that can leak sensitive information from affected implementations.
Zero Day Initiative advisory ZDI-26-588 describes a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the Fabric.js canvas library's loadFromJSON function. Exploitation requires interaction with the library and attack vectors vary by implementation, potentially exposing sensitive information. The issue is rated 4.0 on the CVSS scale and tracked as CVE-2026-19504. The advisory does not report exploitation in the wild.
libxml2 2.15.4 fixes an out-of-bounds read in xmlregexp's NXT macro plus several integer overflow and parsing flaws.
libxml2 2.15.4 (released September 1, 2026) includes security fixes: an out-of-bounds read in the xmlregexp NXT macro, missing overflow checks in dict.c, uri.c, and valid.c, an integer overflow in xmlIO before the writecallback, and an overflow check in xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart. The release also propagates parseFlags in xmlXIncludeProcess and xmlXIncludeProcessTree. No CVE identifiers, exploitation, or severity ratings are given in the announcement.
MapLibre GL JS 6.4.1 patches CVE-2026-85061, a critical zero-click XSS in DOM.sanitize() affecting versions 6.4.0 and earlier.
A critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, CVE-2026-85061 (GHSA-jrc7-96c5-q579), affects maplibre-gl versions 6.4.0 and earlier and is fixed in 6.4.1. The flaw stems from DOM.sanitize() iterating a live NamedNodeMap while deleting attributes, causing the sanitizer to skip adjacent dangerous event-handler attributes that later execute via innerHTML. GitHub rates the issue Critical with CVSS v3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N, exploitable without user interaction when untrusted attribution strings are rendered. Organizations should upgrade to 6.4.1 or later, rebuild affected bundles, and sanitize attribution fields as an interim measure.
Unpatched GeoServer zero-day enabling SQL injection and possible RCE is being actively probed across exposed systems.
A zero-day in GeoServer's jsonArrayContains functionality allows unauthorized SQL injection and, in some configurations, remote code execution. Disclosed on August 12, 2026 without a CVE ID, it drew hundreds of exploitation probes from watchTowr within hours. No patch is available yet; GeoServer was previously mass-exploited via CVE-2024-36401.
Attackers chained two PaperCut NG/MF zero-days for unauthenticated access, installing SimpleHelp and AnyDesk remote access tools on compromised servers.
An ongoing campaign exploits chained zero-days CVE-2026-81578 (improper access control) and CVE-2026-82078 (unsafe dynamic class loading) in internet-facing PaperCut NG and MF Application Servers, enabling authentication bypass and arbitrary Java bytecode execution. Post-compromise activity includes user and domain enumeration, payload download from sendit.sh, and silent installation of SimpleHelp and AnyDesk for redundant remote access; Defused observed CVE-2026-81578/CVE-2026-82078 exploit activity in honeypots since August 29, including data theft via Derby database dumps. Emergency patches were released August 28 and August 30, but 47% of roughly 2,500 PaperCut installs tracked by Huntress run v23 or older, for which no patch is available.
Canada's Cyber Centre relays WebPros advisories for SQL injection (CVE-2026-67401) in cPanel and two ConfigServer Firewall flaws.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-908 covering vulnerabilities in WebPros products, including cPanel & WHM and ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF). Affected cPanel builds include versions prior to 11.110.0.143, 11.134.0.55, 11.136.0.39, 11.138.0.4 and WP2 11.138.1.9, while CSF versions 14.00-16.29 (CVE-2026-65638) and 2.15-16.29 (CVE-2026-65639) are also affected. CVE-2026-67401 describes SQL injection in cPanel's EmailTrack functionality. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the advisories and apply available updates.
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday ships 964 fixes including two exploited Windows zero-days (CVE-2026-85880, CVE-2026-81963) and a wormable DNS RCE.
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday includes 964 Microsoft vulnerabilities requiring customer action, a record attributed to AI-assisted bug discovery, plus 174 third-party/open-source and 23 Chromium/Edge CVEs. Two zero-days are exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-85880, a Windows ALPC heap overflow enabling AppContainer sandbox escape and privilege escalation, and CVE-2026-81963, a Windows Update Stack escalation to SYSTEM. CVE-2026-69730, an unauthenticated Windows DNS RCE, is not yet exploited but Microsoft expects exploitation, and roughly 20 bugs could be wormable. Separately, SAP issued a critical CVSS 10.0 fix for the EPP component used in S/4HANA and NetWeaver.
Apache Parquet Hadoop CVE-2026-73334: a file-controlled KMS URL reaches pluggable KmsClients without host validation in parquet-java 1.12 through 1.18.0.
Apache disclosed CVE-2026-73334, a moderate issue in the org.apache.parquet.crypto.keytools package of parquet-java, versions 1.12 through 1.18.0. The package implements envelope encryption that wraps data keys via a Key Management Service. A KMS URL controlled by the Parquet file is forwarded to a pluggable KmsClient that skips host validation, which could allow crafted files to redirect KMS requests.
A proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection vulnerability in EasyAppointments 1.5.1 has been published on Exploit-DB.
Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection flaw in EasyAppointments 1.5.1. The listing falls under the webapps category and enables reproduction of the injection. No in-the-wild exploitation or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.
Critical unauthenticated RCE zero-day CVE-2026-75650 (StyleSmuggler) in Adobe Commerce and Magento is actively exploited; Adobe shipped hotfix VULN-39341 on September 7.
CVE-2026-75650 is a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Adobe Commerce 2.4.4-2.4.9, Adobe Commerce B2B 1.3.3-1.5.3, and Magento Open Source 2.4.6-2.4.9, exploited via malicious style properties that inject PHP code executed through a transactional email template. Active exploitation began September 4, 2026, three days before Adobe released Hotfix VULN-39341 (APSB26-146) on September 7, with multiple victim stores confirmed by Sansec and Disrex across at least two distinct campaigns. Attackers deploy a persistent implant at ~/.local/share/.gvfsd/gvfsd-user masquerading as kworker, fc-cache, or chronyd, sustained by a cron job, while a second operator dropped a PHP web shell in product image caches. Tenable classified it as a Vulnerability of Interest; it is not yet in CISA KEV as of September 8, and Adobe also recommends rotating encryption keys and all protected credentials.
Next.js 16.4.0-canary.13 Image Optimizer retains a DNS rebinding TOCTOU SSRF in fetchExternalImage() allowing requests to private network resources.
Next.js 16.4.0-canary.13 contains a DNS rebinding time-of-check-to-time-of-use Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Image Optimizer's fetchExternalImage() function. The code resolves the supplied hostname and checks the resulting addresses with isPrivateIp(), but a TOCTOU gap between resolution and the actual fetch allows an attacker-controlled DNS record to change and reach private network resources.
A study finds LLM-synthesized CodeQL queries improve average F1-score by 82% over baseline queries, offering scalable vulnerability detection versus direct LLM scanning.
Researchers conducted an empirical study evaluating whether LLMs can synthesize executable CodeQL queries from National Vulnerability Database vulnerability data. LLM-generated queries significantly enhanced baseline CodeQL suites, yielding an 82% improvement in average F1-score across a diverse set of real-world vulnerabilities. A cost-benefit analysis shows direct LLM-based scanning of entire repositories is often computationally and financially prohibitive, while LLM query synthesis offers a scalable and cost-effective alternative for large-scale vulnerability detection.
Apache Syncope's JPA persistence layer allows SQL injection via the sort parameter in Task search, affecting all releases through 4.1.2.
CVE-2026-82232 is rated important by upstream: improper neutralization of special elements in an SQL command allows SQL injection through the sort parameter in Task search within syncope-core-persistence-jpa. 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 in the wild is reported.
ZDI published ZDI-26-611, an unpatched out-of-bounds read in pdfforge PDF Architect App Object enabling remote code execution (CVSS 7.8).
The Zero Day Initiative disclosed ZDI-26-611, an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the App Object component of pdfforge PDF Architect that can lead to remote code execution. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file. ZDI rated the issue 7.8 on the CVSS scale and marks it as a 0day pending a vendor patch.
PCRE2 10.48 released with security fixes; seven vulnerabilities assigned CVEs including CVE-2026-86145 and CVE-2026-89156 through CVE-2026-89162.
The PCRE2 regular expression library released version 10.48 with multiple security fixes, disclosed on the oss-security mailing list. Seven issues received CVE assignments: CVE-2026-86145, CVE-2026-89156, CVE-2026-89157, CVE-2026-89158, CVE-2026-89160, CVE-2026-89161, and CVE-2026-89162. PCRE2 is a widely used regex engine embedded in many open-source projects and applications. No exploitation is reported in the disclosure.
TantoSec published a working exploit chaining a Telerik UI padding oracle to unauthenticated RCE; Progress patched the flaws in July.
TantoSec's Marcio Almeida released a full exploit chain and tooling for the RadAsyncUpload control in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX, turning a padding oracle (CVE-2026-13182) into unauthenticated RCE via an unguarded type-resolution flaw (CVE-2026-13181, CVSS 8.1). Exploitation requires a rendered RadAsyncUpload handler and an explicit non-default encryption key, and took roughly 127,000 oracle requests (about an hour) in lab testing. Versions 2010.1.309 through 2026.2.519 are affected; Progress fixed the chain in 2026.2.708 on July 8, 2026, and no in-the-wild exploitation has been confirmed. A separate RCE chain in RadPersistenceManager and RadDockLayout (CVE-2026-13185, -13186, -13190) was also patched but has no public exploit.
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