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NIST Scales Back Vulnerability Scoring in 2026 as CVE Volume Surges

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is narrowing how it analyzes and scores software vulnerabilities, citing a sharp increase in submissions that has made it difficult to keep pace.  “For years, security teams relied on NVD for vulnerability context to support prioritization decisions. But that model is under real strain,” said Ian Gray,…

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in CVE submissions. “CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be…

Fortinet fixes critical FortiSandbox vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808)

Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808) in FortiSandbox could be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable systems. Both vulnerabilities can be triggered with a specially crafted HTTP request, putting unpatched FortiSandbox deployments at risk. About FortiSandbox FortiSandbox is Fortinet’s security solution for detecting and analyzing advanced threats. It…

NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities

The federal agency tasked with analyzing security vulnerabilities is overwhelmed as it and other authorities struggle to keep pace with a flood of defects that grows every year. The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced Wednesday that it has capitulated to that deluge and narrowed the priorities for its National Vulnerability Database. NIST said…

April Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Flaws Across SAP, Adobe, Microsoft, Fortinet, and More

A number of critical vulnerabilities impacting products from Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft, and SAP have taken center stage in April’s Patch Tuesday releases. Topping the list is an SQL injection vulnerability impacting SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Business Warehouse (CVE-2026-27681, CVSS score: 9.9) that could result in the execution of arbitrary database 

OpenAI expands its cyber defense program with GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted researchers

Defending critical software has long depended on the ability to find and fix vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them. OpenAI is expanding a program designed to give professional defenders prioritized access to AI tools built for that purpose. The company is scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified individual…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 fixed actively exploited SharePoint zero-day

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2026 fixed 165 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited SharePoint zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 165 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest updates by CVE count. One of the most interesting flaws fixed by the IT giant is a critical SharePoint zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-32201, already…

Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition

Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed “BlueHammer.” Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited…

Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record

Microsoft addressed 165 vulnerabilities affecting its various products and underlying systems, including one actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint, in this month’s Patch Tuesday update.  “By my count, this is the second-largest monthly release in Microsoft’s history,” Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, wrote in a blog post…

Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months

Adobe Reader vulnerabilities have been exploited for decades by threat actors taking advantage of the universal use of the utility to fool employees into downloading infected PDF documents through phishing lures. Now a security researcher says a Reader hole has been quietly exploited by malware for as long as four months, fingerprinting computers to gather…

Cisco IMC auth bypass vulnerability allows attackers to alter user passwords (CVE-2026-20093)

Cisco has fixed ten vulnerabilities affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), the most critical of which (CVE-2026-20093) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system as Admin. Cisco ICM riddled with vulnerabilities Cisco Integrated Management Controller is a built-in hardware management system used in Cisco servers. It allows…

Chrome Vulnerability CVE-2026-5281 Exploited in the Wild

Google has released a Chrome update for multiple high-severity flaws and confirmed that one of the vulnerabilities is being actively exploited in the wild.  We are “… aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-5281 exists in the wild,” said Google in its advisory. Inside CVE-2026-5281 The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5281, is a use-after-free flaw affecting Chrome’s…

New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn, an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. “Use-after-free in Dawn in Google…

Google fixes Chrome zero-day with in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2026-5281)

Google has fixed 21 vulnerabilities affecting its popular Chrome browser, among them a zero-day (CVE-2026-5281) with an in-the-wild exploit. About CVE-2026-5281 As per usual, information about the fixed zero-day is limited, and there’s no details about the exploit (or how/if it’s being used by attackers). CVE-2026-5281’s official description says it’s a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in…

CISA sounds alarm on Langflow RCE, Trivy supply chain compromise after rapid exploitation

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: CVE-2026-33017, a recently disclosed code injection vulnerability in Langflow, an open-source framework for building AI agents and workflows, and CVE-2026-33634, an embedded malicious code vulnerability in Aqua Security’s Trivy security scanner. Their addition to the catalog…

LangChain, LangGraph Flaws Expose Files, Secrets, Databases in Widely Used AI Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security vulnerabilities impacting LangChain and LangGraph that, if successfully exploited, could expose filesystem data, environment secrets, and conversation history. Both LangChain and LangGraph are open-source frameworks that are used to build applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). LangGraph is built on the foundations of

Apple Patches (almost) everything again. March 2026 edition., (Wed, Mar 25th)

Apple released the next version of its operating system, patching 85 different vulnerabilities across all of them. None of the vulnerabilities are currently being exploited. The last three macOS “generations” are covered, as are the last two versions of iOS/iPadOS. For tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, only the current version received patches. This update also includes the…

Critical NetScaler ADC, Gateway flaw may soon be exploited (CVE-2026-3055)

Citrix has fixed two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, with the more serious flaw (CVE-2026-3055) potentially allowing attackers to extract active session tokens from the memory of affected devices. Anil Shetty, senior VP of Engineering with Cloud Software Group (Citrix’s parent company), stated on Saturday that Cloud Software Group “is not aware of…

Citrix Urges Patching Critical NetScaler Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Data Leaks

Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical flaw that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from the application. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread CVE-2026-4368 (CVSS score: 7.7) – Race condition…

QNAP fixed four vulnerabilities demonstrated at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025

QNAP fixed four vulnerabilities shown at Pwn2Own 2025 that could enable code execution, data access, or system disruption. Taiwanese vendor QNAP has addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including four SD-WAN router issues (CVE-2025-62843 to CVE-2025-62846) demonstrated at the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 by Team DDOS. The team chained multiple bugs in QNAP devices to gain root access and…

That cheap KVM device could expose your network to remote compromise

Researchers have found nine vulnerabilities in four popular low-cost KVM-over-IP devices, ranging from unauthenticated command injection to weak authentication defenses and insecure firmware updates. The flaws are particularly concerning given the growing presence of such devices in business environments, whether deployed intentionally by IT administrators and managed service providers or introduced as shadow IT. KVM-over-IP…

Critical Ubiquiti UniFi UniFi security flaw allows potential account hijacking

Ubiquiti fixed two UniFi vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that could let attackers take over user accounts. Ubiquiti patched two vulnerabilities in its UniFi Network app, including a maximum-severity flaw that could enable account takeover. The software is widely used to manage UniFi networking devices like access points, switches, and gateways. The Ubiquiti UniFi Network…

Cisco’s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath

Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor’s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of the nine vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its firewalls and SD-WAN systems over the past three weeks have already been exploited in the wild.  Attackers exploited a pair of these defects…

Microsoft Issues Hotpatch for Windows 11 RRAS RCE Bugs

Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security update to address several critical vulnerabilities in Windows 11 that could allow attackers to execute malicious code through the system’s remote access management tools.  The patch targets flaws in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) and is being delivered as a hotpatch, allowing systems to receive the…

Nine critical vulnerabilities in Linux AppArmor put over 12M enterprise systems at risk

Security researchers at Qualys have disclosed nine vulnerabilities in AppArmor, the Linux Security Module that ships enabled by default across Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE distributions. An unprivileged local attacker can exploit the flaws to gain full root access, break out of container isolation, and crash systems, all without requiring administrative credentials, the researchers said in…

Google warns of two actively exploited Chrome zero days

Threat actors are exploiting two high severity zero day vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that experts say IT teams must patch immediately. Google has issued emergency patches for the two holes, CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910. This comes just days after the release of 29 fixes for holes as part of March Patch Tuesday, and a zero day…

Google warns of two actively exploited Chrome zero days

Threat actors are exploiting two high severity zero day vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that experts say IT teams must patch immediately. Google has issued emergency patches for the two holes, CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910. This comes just days after the release of 29 fixes for holes as part of March Patch Tuesday, and a zero day…

Google Patches Two Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild

Google has released updates to patch two high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that are already being exploited in the wild..  The flaws affect critical components responsible for rendering web content and executing JavaScript, potentially allowing attackers to crash the browser or execute malicious code on vulnerable systems. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-3909, allows…

Veeam warns admins to patch now as critical RCE flaws hit Backup & Replication

Backup vendor Veeam has released security updates to patch multiple vulnerabilities in its widely used Backup and Replication platform, including three critical flaws that could allow authenticated users to execute code on backup servers. Detailed in the company’s advisory KB4830, the vulnerabilities affect Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.2.4165 and earlier version 12 builds, with fixes…

Google fixed two new actively exploited flaws in the Chrome browser

Google addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. Google has released security updates to address two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910, in the Chrome browser. The company is aware of attacks in the wild exploiting both flaws. “Google is aware that exploits for…

Nine CrackArmor Flaws in Linux AppArmor Enable Root Escalation, Bypass Container Isolation

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel’s AppArmor module that could be exploited by unprivileged users to circumvent kernel protections, escalate to root, and undermine container isolation guarantees. The nine confused deputy vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed CrackArmor by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). The

Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution

Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A vulnerability that allows an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution on the Backup Server. CVE-2026-21667…

CVE-2026-21262: SQL Server Zero-Day Fixed in Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday Release

The beginning of 2026 has brought a wave of zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products, including the actively exploited Windows Desktop Window Manager flaw (CVE-2026-20805), the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) that prompted an out-of-band fix, and the Windows Notepad RCE bug (CVE-2026-20841). Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday release keeps defenders busy again, this time shifting attention to…

Critical flaw in HPE Aruba CX switches lets attackers seize admin control without credentials

HPE Aruba Networking has released patches for five vulnerabilities in its AOS-CX switch software, the most severe of which could let a remote attacker take administrative control of enterprise network switches without any credentials. The critical flaw, CVE-2026-23813, scored 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSSv3.1 scale. According to a security advisory HPE published on…

Microsoft patches 80+ vulnerabilities, six flagged as “more likely” to be exploited

On March 2026 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed 80+ vulnerabilities affecting its software and cloud services. Of these, two were publicly disclosed, but not actively exploited. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities abound The two publicly disclosed flaws are CVE-2026-21262, a vulnerability in SQL Server that may allow attackers to gain SQLAdmin privileges, and CVE-2026-26127, a .NET flaw that…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2026 fixed 84 bugs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2026 addressed 84 vulnerabilities in its products. None of the flaws are known to be exploited so far. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2026 addressed 84 vulnerabilities across its products. The IT giant addressed flaws across Windows, Office, Edge, Azure, SQL Server, Hyper-V, and ReFS. Including…

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft addressed 83 vulnerabilities that cut across its broad portfolio of enterprise software and underlying services in its latest security update. The company’s Patch Tuesday release contained no actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and six defects it described as more likely to be exploited.  The vendor’s batch of patches marks the first monthly update without an…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2026, (Tue, Mar 10th)

Microsoft today released patches for 93 vulnerabilities, including 9 vulnerabilities in Chromium affecting Microsoft Edge. 8 of the vulnerabilities are rated critical. 2 were disclosed prior to today but have not yet been exploited. This update addresses no already-exploited vulnerabilities. Disclose vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-26127: A denial of service vulnerability in .Net. Microsoft considers exploitation unlikely. The…

New “LeakyLooker” Flaws in Google Looker Studio Could Enable Cross-Tenant SQL Queries

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims’ databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations’ Google Cloud environments. The shortcomings have been collectively named LeakyLooker by Tenable. There is no evidence that the vulnerabilities were exploited in

AWS-LC Flaws Could Bypass Certificate Verification

Amazon AWS has disclosed several vulnerabilities in AWS-LC, its open-source cryptographic library.  The issues include flaws that could allow certificate verification to be bypassed and weaknesses that may expose encryption timing information.  One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-3338, “allows an unauthenticated user to bypass signature verification when processing PKCS7 objects with Authenticated Attributes,” said AWS in…

Google GTIG: 90 zero-day flaws exploited in 2025 as enterprise targets grow

Google’s GTIG reports 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2025, up from 78 in 2024, with a growing share targeting enterprise systems. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2025. While slightly below the 100 observed in 2023, the number increased from 78 in 2024, with…

Zero-day exploits hit enterprises faster and harder

Google tracked 90 vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days last year, with Chinese cyberespionage groups doubling their count from 2024 and commercial surveillance vendors overtaking state-sponsored hackers for the first time. Nearly half of the recorded zero-days targeted enterprise technologies such as security appliances, VPNs, networking devices, and enterprise software platforms. “Increased exploitation of security and networking…

Cisco SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited

Cisco is warning customers that attackers are actively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities affecting its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager platform. The software serves as a centralized management console used to monitor and control large distributed SD-WAN deployments.  These vulnerabilities “… could allow an attacker to access an affected system, elevate privileges to root, gain access to sensitive information,…

Cisco reveals 2 max-severity defects in firewall management software

Cisco released information on a pair of max-severity vulnerabilities in its firewall management software Wednesday that unauthenticated, remote attackers could exploit to obtain the highest level of access to the underlying operating system or on affected devices. The vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20131 — affect the web-based interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)…

Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation of Two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities

Cisco has disclosed that two more vulnerabilities affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2026-20122 (CVSS score: 7.1) – An arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the local file…

Cisco warns of SD-WAN Manager exploitation, fixes 48 firewall vulnerabilities

Cisco has confirmed that two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122) patched in late February 2025 are being exploited by attackers. The exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-20128, CVE-2026-20122) CVE-2026-20128 is a bug in the Data Collection Agent (DCA) feature of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, which could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain DCA user privileges…

Cisco fixes maximum-severity Secure FMC bugs threatening firewall security

Cisco patched two critical Secure FMC vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain root access to managed firewalls. Cisco addressed two maximum-severity vulnerabilities in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) that could allow attackers to gain root access. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) is a centralized management platform for Cisco firewalls. It lets administrators configure,…

The vulnerability that turns your AI agent against you

Zenity Labs disclosed PleaseFix, a family of critical vulnerabilities affecting agentic browsers, including Perplexity Comet, that allow attackers to hijack AI agents, access local files, and steal credentials within authenticated user sessions. The vulnerabilities can be triggered through malicious content embedded in routine workflows, enabling unauthorized actions without user awareness. The disclosure includes PerplexedBrowser, a…

Researchers discover suite of agentic AI browser vulnerabilities

Researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities that let attackers to quietly hijack agentic AI browsers. Researchers at Zenity Labs discovered these flaws, which affected multiple AI browsers, including Perplexity’s Comet. Before being patched, an attacker could exploit them via a legitimate calendar invite, using a prompt injection to force the AI browser to act against its…

Android’s March 2026 security patch fixes over 100 flaws, one under targeted exploitation

The Android March 2026 security patch addresses vulnerabilities across dozens of components and includes one CVE confirmed under active exploitation. Devices running a patch level of 2026-03-05 or later receive fixes for all disclosed issues. Android March 2026 security patch includes one CVE under active exploitation The bulletin notes indications that CVE-2026-21385 may be under…

Vulnerability monitoring service secures public-sector websites faster

An automated scanning system has cut the time it takes to fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across public sector IT systems, reducing median remediation time for general cyber vulnerabilities from 53 days to 32, and slashing DNS-specific average fix times from 50 days to eight. The results come from the UK government’s newly launched vulnerability monitoring service…