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CVE-2026-50522: Patch Critical SharePoint RCE Now

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-50522 (CVSS 9.8), an unauthenticated deserialization RCE in on-premises SharePoint servers, in its July 2026 updates; no exploitation confirmed at disclosure.

CVE-2026-50522 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) deserialization of untrusted data flaw (CWE-502) allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. It affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, with fixes shipped in Microsoft's July 14, 2026 security updates; SharePoint Online is not listed as affected. No public evidence of active exploitation of this specific CVE existed at disclosure, though CISA's SSVC judged the attack automatable with total technical impact.

Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales

Asimily CEO Shankar Somasundaram outlines a risk-based vulnerability management approach using inventory, attack paths, KEV and EPSS data.

In a Help Net Security video, Asimily CEO Shankar Somasundaram argues patching everything is infeasible as AI-driven attacks inflate vulnerability counts, with one customer finding a thousand unknowns for each known one. He recommends building a full inventory of devices, applications, and data flows, mapping attack paths for reachability, and prioritizing with KEV, EPSS, and business impact. Mitigations include patching, virtual patching via NACs and firewalls, segmentation, and configuration snapshots to detect drift.

Help Net Security · 22d agoIndustry

AI's Vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Feared

New research argues the coming surge of vulnerabilities will be manageable for enterprise security teams that adopt the right triage and prioritization strategies.

A Dark Reading write-up of new research suggests the anticipated explosion in vulnerability volume may be less overwhelming than feared. The analysis indicates enterprise security teams can cope if they apply appropriate strategies for handling vulnerability influx. The piece is framed as guidance rather than a disclosure of specific flaws or incidents.

Dark Reading · 13d agoResearch

12 Best Patch Management Software Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

GBHackers ranks NinjaOne, ManageEngine, and Automox atop twelve patch management tools for 2026, emphasizing third-party application coverage.

GBHackers scored twelve patch management platforms on coverage, automation, visibility, deployment, and value, with NinjaOne ranked highest at 4.55. Action1 is highlighted for its genuinely usable free tier, ManageEngine for third-party catalog breadth, and Automox for cloud-native cross-OS automation. The piece notes that unpatched known vulnerabilities remain a top initial-access vector, citing CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

GBHackers · 5d agoIndustry 4 sources

Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management's Systemic Revolution

Opinion: frontier AI like Anthropic's Mythos finds and exploits vulnerabilities at machine speed, forcing vulnerability and patch management programs to overhaul prioritization.

The author argues frontier AI models, exemplified by Anthropic's Mythos, can discover zero-days and chain exploits fast enough to overwhelm traditional vulnerability management. The piece recommends moving beyond CVSS, EPSS and KEV toward exposure management (CTEM) and automated, ring-based patch deployment. It also flags hard trade-offs between patching velocity and uptime requirements that organizations must resolve proactively.

The Hacker News · 21d agoIndustry

Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM

Sponsored Register piece argues traditional vulnerability management cannot scale with CVE volume and promotes Continuous Threat Exposure Management via Horizon3's NodeZero.

The sponsored article cites surging CVE volumes, CVSS triage shortcomings, NVD backlog, and AI-driven discovery accelerating an asymmetric vulnerability cycle. It outlines Gartner's five CTEM steps - scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization - and describes how Horizon3's NodeZero automated pentesting validates exploitable attack paths with evidence. Horizon3 says NodeZero uses a deterministic machine learning expert system rather than general LLMs, limiting generative AI to scoped tasks via AWS Bedrock.

The Register · Security · 12d agoIndustry

The Vulnerability Gap: Why Discovery Is Outrunning Repair

Dark Reading argues AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and tightening regulation are widening the gap between flaw discovery and repair capacity.

The article argues that AI tooling is increasing the pace at which vulnerabilities are discovered while remediation capacity has not kept up, creating a growing backlog. It frames this widening 'vulnerability gap', combined with a tightening regulatory environment, as an all-hands-on-deck moment for security teams. The piece is analysis and opinion rather than disclosure of a specific flaw.

Dark Reading · 22d agoIndustry

12 Best Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

A 2026 buyer's guide compares 12 endpoint privilege management tools, ranking CyberArk and BeyondTrust as enterprise leaders.

An editorial comparison evaluates 12 endpoint privilege management (EPM) tools on elevation control, manageability, and pricing model. The guide argues that standing local-admin rights fuel ransomware and lateral movement, making their removal a high-impact control that cyber insurers increasingly mandate. CyberArk and BeyondTrust are positioned as enterprise-depth leaders, with Delinea, Heimdal, and ManageEngine for the mid-market, and Admin By Request and CyberFOX AutoElevate for SMBs and MSPs. Pricing is generally per endpoint or per user, and the article is explicitly an assessment rather than a product release or incident report.

GBHackers · 4d agoIndustry 4 sources

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 · 8d agoResearch1

Veeam Released Patches for Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2026-65641)

Veeam patched critical CVE-2026-65641 (CVSS 9.3) in Veeam ONE, exploitable by unauthenticated network attackers to coerce SMB authentication from the service account.

Veeam released patches for its Veeam ONE monitoring, reporting, and capacity planning software addressing CVE-2026-65641, rated critical with a CVSS score of 9.3. Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated network attacker to coerce SMB authentication from the Veeam ONE service account, creating relay-style attack opportunities. Qualys ThreatPROTECT relayed the vendor advisory; administrators should apply the patches promptly. No in-the-wild exploitation is noted in the advisory.

How to build an exposure management program the business trusts: Lessons from Tenable’s CSO

Tenable's CSO describes an AI-driven exposure management program that consolidates tool sprawl and translates cyber risk for boards.

A Tenable blog post shares lessons from CSO Robert Huber on moving to an AI-driven exposure management program. It argues tool sprawl and data silos hinder holistic risk assessment and that exposure management unifies attack-surface data into business-level metrics for the C-suite.

Tenable Blog · 19d agoIndustry

Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager Security Hardening Release: September 2026

Cisco's September 2026 hardening release for Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager patches internally found flaws, one actively exploited.

Cisco issued a security hardening release for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager covering multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities, grouped by CWE class to streamline patching. Cisco states one of the vulnerabilities is known to be actively exploited. The exploited issue is the Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability detailed in a companion advisory. Software updates are available.

Cisco Security Advisories · 1d agoAdvisory in the wild6

Introducing Continuous Vulnerability Assessment: Real-Time Defense for the AI Threat Era

Wiz launched Continuous Vulnerability Assessment (CVA), alerting customers to exposure against newly published vulnerabilities in real time.

Wiz introduced Continuous Vulnerability Assessment, a capability that detects exposure to newly published vulnerabilities the moment they are disclosed. The company positions CVA as real-time defense for the AI threat era, reducing the window between disclosure and remediation decisions. The item is a vendor product announcement with no incident details.

Wiz Blog · 14d agoTools

Enterprise Applications Carry 4.31x More Critical and High Vulnerabilities

Sonatype reports enterprise applications contain 4.31x more critical and high-severity vulnerabilities as accelerated software creation drives rising vulnerability levels.

Sonatype's analysis found enterprise applications carry 4.31 times more critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. The report links rising vulnerability levels to accelerated enterprise software creation. The findings are part of Sonatype's software supply chain research coverage reported by Infosecurity Magazine.

Infosecurity Magazine · 28d agoIndustry

N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks

N-able ships an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity RCE flaw in its N-central RMM platform that attackers are actively exploiting.

N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. The company urges customers to apply the fix immediately because attacks against N-central instances are ongoing. N-central is widely used by managed service providers, so a compromise of one deployment can expose many downstream customer environments.

BleepingComputer · 8d agoExploit / PoC in the wild

Veeam security advisory (AV26-855)

Canada's Cyber Centre advisory AV26-855 says Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE vulnerabilities are resolved in 13.0.3 and 13.1 updates.

Advisory AV26-855, dated August 27, 2026, states that as of August 25 Veeam is affected by vulnerabilities in Backup & Replication (prior to 13.0.3 build 13.0.3.63 and prior to 13.1 build 13.1.0.411) and Veeam ONE (prior to or equal to 13.0.2.6723 and 13.1.0.7034). Fixes are documented in KB4902 (Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1) and KB4905 (Veeam ONE 13.1 Patch 0). The Cyber Centre urges users and administrators to apply the available updates. No CVE identifiers or exploitation details are given.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 19d agoAdvisory

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Static Credential Vulnerability

Cisco warns of static low-privileged credentials in Secure Firewall Management Center's web interface, letting unauthenticated remote attackers log in and access sensitive data.

Cisco disclosed a vulnerability in the web interface of Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software caused by the presence of static credentials for a low-privileged account. An unauthenticated remote attacker could log in to an affected device using the static account and access sensitive data within impacted systems. The attack surface is reduced when the FMC management interface does not have public internet access.

Cisco Security Advisories · Aug 11, 2026Advisory

Top 10 Best Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) Tools in 2026

A 2026 scorecard ranks ten endpoint privilege management tools, led by BeyondTrust, ThreatLocker and Delinea for elevation, coverage and policy depth.

The article ranks ten endpoint privilege management (EPM) tools using weighted criteria covering elevation workflow, platform coverage, policy depth, time-to-value and value. BeyondTrust scored highest overall (8.4) for cross-platform breadth, with ThreatLocker (8.2), Delinea (8.1) and Admin By Request (8.0) highlighted for allowlisting integration, cloud administration and deployment speed respectively. It also notes that Netwrix acquired CoSoSys in 2024, which affects bundling when shortlisting both EPM and device control.

Cyber Security News · 5d agoIndustry

SonicWall security advisory (AV26-884)

Canada's Cyber Centre issued advisory AV26-884 warning that SonicWall Network Security Manager On-Prem 4.3.0 and earlier are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-884 on September 4, 2026, flagging SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) On-Prem across VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, and KVM deployments, versions 4.3.0 and earlier, as affected by multiple vulnerabilities. The advisory does not list CVE identifiers, exploit details, or in-the-wild exploitation. Administrators are encouraged to review the referenced links and apply updates as they become available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 7d agoAdvisory

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Cisco warns of a critical authentication bypass in Secure Firewall Management Center that lets unauthenticated attackers execute scripts and obtain root access.

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute script files on an affected device to obtain root access to the underlying operating system. The flaw stems from an improper system process created at boot time and is triggered via crafted HTTP requests. If the FMC management interface does not have public internet access, the attack surface is limited.

Cisco Security Advisoriesupdated · 1d agofirst · 6d agoAdvisory 13 sourcesCVE-2026-20079

RMM Tools for MSPs: Features, Risks & How to Stay Secure

Threat actors continue abusing MSP remote monitoring and management tools to reach downstream customers, four years after the Kaseya supply chain attack.

Huntress examines how RMM platforms remain a favored gateway for attackers targeting managed service providers and their clients. A recent incident demonstrates that adversaries still successfully pivot from MSP RMM tooling into downstream customer environments. The piece also covers RMM features, associated risks, and hardening guidance for providers.

Huntress · 14d agoThreat actor in the wild

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

CISA says most exploited vulnerabilities are decades-old flaws, blaming organizational culture and weak Secure by Design adoption.

CISA assesses that the vulnerabilities most exploited in the wild are old flaws that should have been eradicated decades ago. The agency attributed the problem to organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption. The Register's coverage frames the remarks as renewed pressure on vendors and operators to eliminate long-standing weaknesses.

The Register · Security · 18d agoPolicy & legal in the wild

Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk

Autonomous penetration testing advocates prioritize exploitable attack paths over raw vulnerability severity for continuous security validation.

The article argues that scanner severity scores lack context: a critical flaw behind strong segmentation may be low priority, while a medium flaw on internet-facing systems can provide a foothold chained toward sensitive data. It positions autonomous penetration testing and attack path validation as the execution layer for continuous security validation, replacing point-in-time assessments. The piece is vendor-authored thought leadership rather than incident or vulnerability news.

The Hacker News · 4d agoIndustry1