An introduction to CISA’s BOD 22-01 Issued nearly four years ago, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Binding Operational Directive 22-01 (BOD 22-01) has been adopted across both public and private sector organizations as a framework to ensure timely remediation of vulnerabilities being…
Managing access to security tools shouldn't require another manual process. As organizations grow, keeping user accounts and permissions up to date becomes increasingly complex. Employees join, change roles, and leave, creating a constant need to update access across applications. When these processes rely on manual…
Overview On October 21, 2026, the Node.js Project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-111497 , an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder bundled with Node.js. The vulnerability affects the Node.js 26.x , 24.x , and 22.x release lines. Node.js rates the issue High, while Google, the CVE Numbering Authority…
This release adds multiple new modules, and 6 of those modules point at a single target: Langflow , the open-source LLM workflow builder. Together they cover an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-93680), 3 unauthenticated remote code execution paths (CVE-2026-0768, CVE-2026-0769, and CVE-2026-10134), and 2 authenticated…
Overview On October 21, 2026, the PHP project announced security releases for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP. CVE-2026-109618 can corrupt memory during out-of-memory (OOM) handling, while CVE-2026-109619 is a use-after-free flaw involving state retained between requests. Both have a CVSSv4 score of 9.2 and both…
Three days is the average time between a high-severity vulnerability becoming public and its exploitation, according to the latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7. And 71% of the exploitation tracked in Q3 occurred within the first seven days. For security teams already managing growing vulnerability…
Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can do to implement and maintain those controls. The new privileged user in your environment Security teams spent two decades learning how to work with the people they trust most. Domain admins, DBAs, finance approvers and…
Overview While performing continuous red teaming exercises through Rapid7’s Vector Command service, Rapid7 discovered three new vulnerabilities in Eptura Archibus . A legacy API endpoint could be exploited to bypass authentication and run various functions without authentication ( CVSS: 8.6 High ). The most serious…
Overview In early October 2026, Rapid7 analysts investigated a compromise of a Citrix NetScaler ADC appliance. The appliance was running an affected 14.1 build and was exposed to active exploitation targeting NetScaler authentication and SAML deployments. The intrusion achieved root code execution, deployed multiple…
Overview On October 15, 2026, BeyondTrust disclosed a critical authentication bypass in Remote Support (RS) , its platform for remotely troubleshooting and administering endpoints. Tracked as CVE-2026-102764 and assigned a CVSSv4 score of 9.3 , the vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform file…
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab released 19.4.2 , 19.3.5 , and 19.2.8 to fix CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow in its CI/CD regular-expression handling. The issue was reported through HackerOne by joaxcar . GitLab assigned it a CVSS score of 10.0 and described possible code execution by an unauthenticated…
Some awards you're happy to receive, while others make you stop for a moment. Receiving the 2026 Péter Szőr Award this week at Virus Bulletin in Seville for our research, BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone , was of the latter kind. Virus Bulletin created the award to honor Péter's life and…
Parts 1 and 2 of this series looked at two pressures facing higher education security teams. First, the threat landscape : universities are dealing with more frequent attacks across complex, distributed environments, while campus-by-campus security can make it harder to share intelligence and coordinate response.…
An enterprise mail server authenticates users, stores private communications, delivers recovery links, runs calendars, and sends mail that employees and other systems trust. Compromising it can therefore expose both email and the identities and workflows built around it. During a broader assessment of Zimbra…
Overview While performing continuous red teaming exercises through Rapid7’s Vector Command service, Rapid7 discovered CVE-2026-108065 , an SQL Injection vulnerability (CWE-89) in Channel Software WebAlliance eCommerce.The exploit allows a malicious actor to read sensitive data from the database, or, if the database…
Microsoft is publishing 1,413 own-product vulnerabilities on October 2026 Patch Tuesday , including 1,102 vulnerabilities in Windows. Anyone who enjoyed last month’s record-setting Patch Tuesday will love the October 2026 edition, because it’s much bigger still. As Rapid7 has noted over the course of 2026, there is…
Overview On October 13, 2026, Ivanti published a security advisory for CVE-2026-104935 , a high-severity authentication bypass by spoofing ( CWE-290 ) affecting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS). The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.0 score of 8.6 and allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. Ivanti…
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 . Under…
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the security challenges created by fragmented, campus-by-campus environments. Higher education also faces a second pressure that makes that fragmentation harder to sustain: overlapping compliance obligations across FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, and CMMC. Each framework brings different…