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Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Cisco ASA and FTD VPN Heap Inspection Denial-of-Service Flaw
Unauthenticated remote attackers can crash Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices over VPN. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-08-11 with a three-day federal remediation deadline.
Windows AFD WinSock Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation
Use-after-free in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) lets local attackers gain SYSTEM privileges via race condition. Actively exploited by Lazarus.
Metabase SQL Injection Vulnerability
Metabase contains a SQL Injection vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, which can give them administrator access to the instance. From there, the attacker could change the application configuration, steal stored credentials for the connected databases, read any data accessible through those connections, and export data.
N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability
N-able N-central contains an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel that allows for authentication bypass.
Apache Tomcat Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data Vulnerability
Apache Tomcat contains a missing encryption of sensitive data vulnerability that allows the bypass of the EncryptInterceptor.
IBM Langflow Code Injection Vulnerability
Langflow contains a code injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full remote code execution on default Langflow deployments.
From the desk
Patch Now: Critical Auth Bypass Hits WordPress Plugins
Two WordPress plugins patched this week carry CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass flaws. A third allows unauthenticated file deletion that hands attackers RCE.
Evooo1Bot Turns Routers Into SOCKS5 Relay Nodes
A Mirai-based modular Linux botnet is converting compromised routers into SOCKS5 relay nodes — the same ORB infrastructure pattern, repackaged again.
Unauth Access to AI Memory: CVE-2026-50027 Patched
CVE-2026-50027: mcp-memory-service exposed all /api/documents/* routes without auth, letting anyone read, write, or delete AI memories. Patch to 10.67.1.
ShieldBreak: New Unpatched EoP in Defender Scan Engine
CVE-2026-69414 is a second ShieldBreak-tagged EoP — this one in Defender's Malware Protection Engine, CVSS 7.8. No patch yet. MSRC advisory is live.
CISA ICS Advisory: SCADA Deserialization Bug CVE-2025-7639
CISA advisory ICSA-26-225-01 covers CVE-2025-7639, a deserialization flaw that lets authenticated ICS operators execute code at elevated privilege.
NIST Bets on AI to Clear AI-Created CVE Backlog
AI tools are flooding the CVE pipeline faster than NVD can enrich them. NIST's proposed fix is more AI — a structural response to a structural problem, with real triage implications downstream.