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ZDI-26-669: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC JBIG2 File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-669 details an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2026-81978) when Adobe Acrobat Reader DC parses JBIG2 files.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-669 for an out-of-bounds read triggered when Acrobat Reader DC parses JBIG2 files. Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information from affected installations. User interaction is required, such as opening a malicious file or visiting a malicious page. ZDI rated the issue 3.3 and assigned CVE-2026-81978.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 10, 05:00 UTC · 6d agoAdvisory 19 sources CVE-2026-81978

ZDI-26-620: Microsoft Windows UMPDDrvPlgBlt Improper Object Management Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-62712, a CVSS 7.8 Windows UMPDDrvPlgBlt improper object-management flaw enabling local privilege escalation.

Zero Day Initiative advisory ZDI-26-620 describes an improper object management flaw in Microsoft Windows' UMPDDrvPlgBlt component, sharing CVE-2026-62712 with the related UMPDDrvStretchBlt advisory. A local attacker able to run low-privileged code can escalate privileges on affected installations. The issue carries a CVSS 3.0 rating of 7.8.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 8, 05:00 UTC · 8d agoVulnerability 4 sources CVE-2026-627121

ZDI-26-648: (Pwn2Own) OpenAI Codex External Control of System or Configuration Setting Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI published a Pwn2Own advisory for CVE-2026-19590, enabling remote code execution in OpenAI's Codex agent via system or configuration control.

Zero Day Initiative advisory ZDI-26-648 documents an External Control of System or Configuration Setting vulnerability in OpenAI Codex, demonstrated at Pwn2Own. A remote attacker could achieve arbitrary code execution, with user interaction required such as opening malicious content. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-19590 with a CVSS rating of 7.8. No exploitation in the wild is reported.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 10, 05:00 UTC · 6d agoVulnerability 4 sources CVE-2026-195901

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 AdvisoriesSep 9, 05:00 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory 4 sources CVE-2026-603921

Quoting Rick Brewster

Paint.NET added a clean-room Direct2D rewrite for WINE, largely written by Anthropic's Claude and described as unreviewed 'vibe coded' code.

Rick Brewster says Paint.NET now ships a from-scratch, reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation (PaintDotNet.Windows.Direct2D1.Managed.dll) used under WINE via a /wine flag, since Direct2D was never completed well enough there. He credits the Claude coding assistant with writing most of the code, calling it largely 'vibe coded' and not thoroughly reviewed. Simon Willison shared the quote as an example of shipping AI-assisted systems code in production software.

Simon WillisonSep 2, 05:50 UTC · 14d agoAI tools & infra1

ZDI-26-612: (0Day) pdfforge PDF Architect PDF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI published ZDI-26-612, an unpatched out-of-bounds write in pdfforge PDF Architect PDF parsing enabling remote code execution (CVSS 7.8).

The Zero Day Initiative disclosed ZDI-26-612, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in pdfforge PDF Architect's PDF file parsing. Successful exploitation allows remote code execution on affected installations. User interaction is required, as the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file; ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 7.8 and lists the flaw as a 0day.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 31, 05:00 UTC · 16d agoAdvisory

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 AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoAdvisory CVE-2026-64397

ZDI-26-614: (0Day) pdfforge PDF Architect PDF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI published ZDI-26-614, another unpatched out-of-bounds write in pdfforge PDF Architect PDF parsing enabling remote code execution (CVSS 7.8).

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-614, a second out-of-bounds write vulnerability in pdfforge PDF Architect's PDF file parsing. Attackers can execute arbitrary code on affected installations, provided the user visits a malicious page or opens a malicious file. The flaw carries a ZDI-assigned CVSS score of 7.8 and remains unpatched (0day).

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 31, 05:00 UTC · 16d agoAdvisory

RenderFormer-V2: Neural Rendering with Heterogeneous Scene Primitives

RenderFormer-V2 is a transformer-based neural renderer handling caustics, volumetric scattering and out-of-distribution materials without per-scene training or specialized code.

RenderFormer-V2 is a learned transformer-based neural rendering model that models global light transport as a sequence-to-sequence transformation, handling caustics, volumetric scattering, environment lighting, textured and displaced surfaces and out-of-distribution materials. It uses a two-stage process: a view-independent stage resolving primitive-to-primitive transport, and a view-dependent stage converting the neural scene representation into pixels. Improvements include combined windowed-attention with a rendering-informed attention sink for scalability, support for heterogeneous primitives like environment maps and participating media, and a surface-reflectance-independent neural material encoding, validated across diverse scenes with extensive ablations.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 3, 20:00 UTC · 12d agoAI research

ZDI-26-613: (0Day) pdfforge PDF Architect PDF File Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI published ZDI-26-613, an unpatched memory corruption flaw in pdfforge PDF Architect PDF parsing enabling remote code execution (CVSS 7.8).

The Zero Day Initiative disclosed ZDI-26-613, a memory corruption vulnerability in pdfforge PDF Architect's PDF file parsing that allows remote code execution on affected installations. User interaction is required, meaning the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 7.8 and classifies the issue as a 0day.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 31, 05:00 UTC · 16d agoAdvisory

ZDI-26-563: (Pwn2Own) Home Assistant Green Simple Service Discovery Protocol Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a Pwn2Own SSRF flaw (CVSS 5.4) in Home Assistant Green's SSDP server, letting unauthenticated network-adjacent attackers trigger arbitrary server-side requests.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-563 for a server-side request forgery in the Simple Service Discovery Protocol server on Home Assistant Green. The bug was demonstrated at Pwn2Own and allows network-adjacent, unauthenticated attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations. ZDI rated the issue CVSS 5.4.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 12, 05:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Advisory

ZDI-26-557: (Pwn2Own) Amazon Smart Plug Insecure Fallback Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a Pwn2Own information disclosure flaw (CVSS 4.3) in Amazon Smart Plug, letting unauthenticated network-adjacent attackers access sensitive information.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-557 for an insecure fallback information disclosure flaw in Amazon Smart Plug, demonstrated at Pwn2Own. Unauthenticated network-adjacent attackers can disclose sensitive information on affected installations. ZDI rated the issue CVSS 4.3.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 12, 05:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Advisory

VDiff-Bench: A Challenging Benchmark for Fine-Grained Image Difference Identification

VDiff-Bench, a 1,756-question benchmark, shows multimodal LLMs struggle with fine-grained image-difference identification, scoring as low as 8.7% on low-level changes.

VDiff-Bench is a multiple-choice benchmark of 1,756 four-way questions over image pairs covering 10 change categories including position, motion, color, texture, OCR/text and illumination, with curated hard negatives. Evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art open- and closed-source MLLMs shows fine-grained visual comparison remains brittle: 7-8B-scale open-source models score 52.5-70.6% on semantic changes but only 8.7-33.3% on low-level changes like noise and texture. Notably, Grok 4.3 shows a sharp performance drop on noise and texture differences, falling behind large open-source models like Kimi K2.5 and K3.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 4, 20:00 UTC · 11d agoAI research

ZDI-26-564: NVIDIA Transformers4Rec load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-24232, a CVSS 7.8 deserialization RCE in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec's load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint function.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-564, a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec. Remote code execution is possible, but exploitation requires user interaction such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-24232 with a CVSS score of 7.8.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Advisory CVE-2026-24232

ZDI-26-611: (0Day) pdfforge PDF Architect App Object Out-Of-Bounds Read Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 31, 05:00 UTC · 16d agoAdvisory

ZDI-26-542: Microsoft Windows UMPDDrvBitBlt Improper Object Management Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-62712, a CVSS 7.8 Windows UMPDDrvBitBlt improper object management flaw allowing local attackers to escalate privileges.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-542 describes improper object management in Microsoft Windows' UMPDDrvBitBlt function, tracked as CVE-2026-62712 with a CVSS score of 7.8. The flaw allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected Windows installations. Exploitation requires first obtaining the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 11, 05:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-627122

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 AdvisoriesAug 11, 05:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-69256

ZDI-26-677: Adobe Photoshop DCM JPEG-LS Image Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-75771, an integer overflow in Adobe Photoshop's DCM JPEG-LS image parsing that enables remote code execution with user interaction.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-677 for an integer overflow in Adobe Photoshop's parsing of DCM JPEG-LS images. A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code if the target opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. No exploitation is reported.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 10, 05:00 UTC · 6d agoVulnerability 3 sources CVE-2026-75771

ZDI-26-689: Linux Kernel SCTP Subsystem Race Condition Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI discloses Linux Kernel SCTP subsystem race condition (CVE-2026-46227) allowing low-privileged local attackers to disclose sensitive information, CVSS 6.4.

ZDI-26-689 describes a race condition information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux Kernel SCTP subsystem, assigned CVE-2026-46227 with a CVSS rating of 6.4. An attacker needs the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit the flaw. The vulnerability exposes sensitive information from affected installations.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-46227

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 AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-89688

ZDI-26-584: dnsmasq DNSSEC NSEC/NSEC3 Type Bitmap Processing Infinite Loop Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed an unauthenticated infinite-loop denial-of-service flaw (CVE-2026-4890) in dnsmasq DNSSEC NSEC/NSEC3 bitmap processing.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-584 describing an infinite loop in dnsmasq's processing of DNSSEC NSEC/NSEC3 type bitmaps. Remote unauthenticated attackers can trigger a denial-of-service condition on affected installations. ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 7.5 and the identifier CVE-2026-4890.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-4890

ZDI-26-693: Linux Kernel ksmbd Share Configuration Race Condition Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-26-693: authenticated race condition in Linux kernel ksmbd share configuration allows remote code execution on ksmbd-enabled systems; CVSS 8.5.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-693 discloses a race condition in the Linux kernel's ksmbd share configuration that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. Exploitation requires authentication, and only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 8.5; no CVE is listed in the advisory text.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoVulnerability1

Adaptive Gated Deepfake Detection for Low-Resolution and Resource-Constrained Environments

AdaGate-DF routes deepfake detection by image quality through dual multi-exit gates, hitting 0.9370 AUC on Celeb-DF with low inference latency.

AdaGate-DF is an adaptive gated deepfake detection framework that uses image-quality cues to send high-quality images through earlier exits, saving compute in resource-constrained settings. On Celeb-DF it achieves an AUC of 0.9370, outperforming MaD-CoRN and DefakeHop++, and reaches 0.9708 at 384x384 resolution. On FaceForensics++ it remains effective under class imbalance while balancing uncertainty-aware prediction and computational efficiency.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 4, 16:14 UTC · 11d agoAI research

Domain-Specific Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

A multi-signal pipeline detects LLM hallucinations, reaching F1 0.915 on HaluEval and cutting Qwen2.5-0.5B hallucination rates from 85.5% to 37.7% via DPO.

The paper presents a hallucination detection pipeline combining fine-tuned DeBERTa-v3 classification, Monte Carlo Dropout uncertainty, and temperature-scaled calibration. It achieves F1 0.915 and AUROC 0.977 on general-domain HaluEval tasks, with MC Dropout inference raising accuracy to 93.2%. Applying DPO to a Qwen2.5-0.5B generator reduces its hallucination rate from 85.5% to 37.7%, while cross-domain evaluation shows poor general-domain transfer to SciFact (F1 0.52) and PubMedBERT fine-tuning as the strongest adaptation (F1 0.63).

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 10, 17:45 UTC · 5d agoAI research1

ZDI-26-527: Wazuh Cluster DAPI Protocol Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-44901, a 9.9-rated deserialization RCE in Wazuh cluster DAPI requiring low-privileged code on a worker node.

ZDI-26-527 describes a deserialization of untrusted data flaw in Wazuh's cluster DAPI protocol allowing network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation requires the attacker to first obtain low-privileged code execution on a worker node. ZDI assigned a CVSS score of 9.9, and the flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-44901.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 11, 05:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-44901

ZDI-26-681: Linux Kernel FUSE Subsystem Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-64265, a CVSS 7.8 race condition in the Linux Kernel FUSE subsystem enabling local privilege escalation.

ZDI-26-681 covers a race condition in the Linux Kernel FUSE subsystem that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Exploitation requires the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8 and CVE-2026-64265.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoAdvisory CVE-2026-64265