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Briefings
Periodic SITREPs that compress the week's vulnerability and exploit news into a single readable digest, sourced throughout.
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Latest edition·August 10, 2026
Aug 3–10: Four KEV Additions, Metabase CVSS 10
Four CISA KEV additions this week. Metabase CVSS 10 patched under active exploitation. WordPress triple chain, 10 MCP CVEs, breaches at Levi Strauss and Valve.
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- Metabase patched its CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated SQL injection zero-day today — active exploitation confirmed since August 8. No CVE assigned yet. Update immediately.
- Four KEV additions this week: CVE-2026-18577 (N-able N-central, Aug 3), CVE-2026-34486 (Apache Tomcat, Aug 4), CVE-2026-9198 (Langflow, CVSS 9.8 unauth RCE), CVE-2026-8037 (Kemp LoadMaster, 792 attempts).
- WordPress triple chain CVE-2026-18468/18469/18470 enables unauthenticated admin takeover in Login & Register Forms plugin before 4.0.2. Update now.
- Ten MCP server CVEs hit NVD on August 9 — all SSRF or path traversal, ten distinct open-source implementations, most maintainers silent.
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July 2026
July 29: VMware trio, Cisco FMC KEV, Minnesota water attack7 itemsJuly 28 evening: Check Point MDS scope, vBulletin3 itemsJuly 28: TeamCity RCE, OpenWrt critical, AI sandbox escape6 itemsJuly 27 evening: Certighost PoC, KEV adds, Fairlife5 itemsJuly 27 desk: TELESHIM Telegram C2, supply chain cooldown4 itemsJuly 25 desk: Fastjson CVE-2026-16723, GitLab RCE PoC7 itemsWeek in Review: AI Ops, Certighost, M365 Failure9 itemsJuly 23-24 desk: AI agents weaponized, Clop active12 itemsJuly 21-22 desk: Three KEVs, SharePoint stripped11 itemsWeek in Review: KEV, Certificates, and the Old Debt5 itemsWeekend desk: wp2shell in the open, 27 DigiCert EV certs8 itemsDesk briefing: KEV +3 in 24 hours, Fairlife goes dark8 itemsDesk briefing: KEV grew by four, SonicWall deadline is Friday7 itemsDesk briefing: Gatekeeper cleared it, and that is the story5 itemsDesk briefing: the fire drill this week is on the routers5 itemsWeek in Review: AI Attacks Stopped Being Theoretical5 itemsDesk Briefing: the install-time gate is not the gate you think it is5 itemsWeek in Review: DPRK Broke Supply Chains, an LLM Ran Ransomware5 items
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