Atlassian’s October bulletin lists 176 vulnerability entries, including 14 critical-severity issues, all in third-party components. The post Atlassian Patches 75 Flaws in Data Center and Server Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously thought. The attacks aim to exploit CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS scores: 9.2), which can result in unauthenticated remote
Japan is preparing to set up a dedicated team to run AI-driven cyberattack simulations to expose weaknesses in technology systems. Japan’s plan for AI cyberattack simulations comes as organizations worldwide scramble to address critical PHP flaws that have disrupted parts of the internet. Speaking on Friday, Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa said those defending against cyber threats need to think like attackers, usin…
Vijendra Katiyar, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, CleanStart Fintech businesses build and operate products across payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, financial infrastructure and embedded finance. Despite their differences, they share a common dependency: software assembled from components developed and maintained across a global ecosystem. Open-source libraries, container images and third-party co…
Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure. According to The PHP Foundation, several organizations had agreed to a coordinated release detailing the critical flaws and mitigation actions, but cybersecurity firm Chainguard “unl…
On October 21st, 2026, the PHP project released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. We warned site owners before the fixes became available and followed up after our team reviewed the vulnerability details and began testing the patched and vulnerable PHP releases. At this time, we have not observed any confirmed compromises resulting from these vulnerabil…
Overview Two memory-related vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP versions prior to 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, and 8.5.12. An unauthenticated remote attacker with network access to PHP web services can exploit these vulnerabilities via specially crafted HTTP requests to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution. Description PHP is a widely used open-source scripting language designed for web development and ser…
Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an opportunity to speak out and stop this dangerous legislation. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is urging all Cana…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the organizations they target.Key takeawaysThe adversary economy operates on the same fundamental principles as the legitimate economy. Forum self-evacuations: Criminal forums including BreachForums initiated emergency infrastructur…
Bulletin ID: 2026-147-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/22/2026 13:30 PM PDT Description: aws-c-mqtt is a C99 implementation of the MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT5 specifications, distributed as part of the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) and bundled in the AWS IoT Device SDK for C++ v2. We identified CVE-2026-115417, a memory allocation with excessive size value (CWE-789) in the library'…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) pose a risk to home users and their data. We explain the danger and how to stay protected.
GitLab on Wednesday published updated versions of its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that address a dozen bugs and security issues, including some that allow various unauthenticated actions. The most serious of the security issues, labeled critical in severity, is CVE-2026-110264, an integer overflow issue. “GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unaut…
Bulletin ID: 2026-146-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/22/2026 13:00 PM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK, available for Python and TypeScript, for building AI agents. The SDK includes an Agent2Agent (A2A) server component that exposes an agent over HTTP so other agents and clients can call it. We identified CVE-2026-115419, an issue where the A2A se…
Ali Firas discovered that zlib incorrectly handled certain non-blocking write operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator, even with a read-only customer account, gain operator privileges, the top level of control over it. For
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 SMTP MIME Decoder that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart. This vulnerability is due to a lack of error checking when the MIME fields of the SMTP header are parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SMTP packets through an established connection to be parse…
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco owned Open Source Snort 3 Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20043 are related to issues concerning out-of-bounds writes that are…
Multiple Cisco products are affected by vulnerabilities in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. Th…
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the Snort 3 Detection Engine. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of nested GRE traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE pay…
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the detection engine to unexpectedly restart, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a flaw in logic handling when General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) extension headers are processed within the codec. An at…
A vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Decompression Engine of multiple Cisco products could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper range checking when Snort 3 decompresses VBA data, which is user controlled. An attacker could exploit thi…
PHP2Shell exposure can extend into bundled runtimes, containers, and hosted applications. Learn why identifying affected PHP is only the first step toward validating exploitability.
Bulletin ID: 2026-145-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/22/2026 11:30 AM PDT Description: AWS SAM CLI is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. We identified CVE-2026-115414, an OS command injection issue in the Terraform hook (sam build --hook-name terraform) in AWS SAM CLI. The Terraform hook generates a Makefile recipe that interpolates a Terra…
Attackers are increasingly focusing on a limited range of critical vulnerabilities to run attacks with flaws packaged into exploits within as little as three days. Rapid7’s latest Quarterly Threat Landscape report found the number of newly exploited vulnerabilities in Q3 of 2026 was 43, up 19% year on year. Douglas McKee, director of vulnerability intelligence at Rapid7, said it would be wrong to interpret that 19% a…
A critical Signal flaw could keep calls active after hang-up, exposing microphone or camera. Update to a fixed version immediately. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-113380 (CVSS score 9.3 of 10), in Signal ’s calling library could allow a malicious caller to interfere with call termination, potentially leaving the victim’s microphone and camera active after […]
Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can be triggered before any network authentication. The other, ZDI-CAN-33549, requires the SMB Direct transport and an RDMA-capable network
Bulletin ID: 2026-144-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/22/2026 09:30 AM PDT Description: Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. We identified CVE-2026-115416, an issue in Amazon Athena engine version 3 query processing where incorrect authorization checks could have allowed an authenticated user to…
By Adrian Cheek, Senior Cybercrime Researcher Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP have put renewed attention on a familiar operational question: how many internet-facing PHP services are running versions that no longer receive upstream security fixes?? We examined existing internet-scan records to measure the PHP versions that services disclose to the public internet. The result was […] The post PHP2Shell Exposure: 7…