October 17, 2026
*Total 19 security intelligence items, auto-collected by FoxTerm*
Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory; Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks; NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks; Next.js Ships Out-of-Band Patch for Two Critical RCE Flaws in Caching and SVG Processing; Drupal Patches Critical Field UI Flaw With Unauthenticated RCE Path via Contributed Modules; Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation; Langflow's Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts; AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches; Thermo Fisher Torrent Suite Software; J4Care dcm4che; Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology EseeCloud; Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Milo; CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog; CISA Malcolm; Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More; Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early
GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories
Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape,
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide the w
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabl
NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires
Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and the other in librsvg, the open-source li
Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site's server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19. An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core alone, the Drupal Security Team said in its advisory. Sev
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs servin
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface. "A remote code execution (RCE) v
The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It at
Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow, wa
Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files on the Torrent Server. The following versions of Thermo Fisher Torrent Suite Software are affected: Torr
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to delete stored medical images, disclose patient information, inject forged studies, reassign patient records, overwrite files, and cause a denial-of-service condition. </p
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain control over affected IP cameras. The following versions of Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology EseeCloud are affected: Esee
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to delete protected data, recover user credentials and impersonate legitimate users, or cause the server to stop responding to all clients. The following ver
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-21589 Atlassian Multiple Products Files or Directories Access
View CSAF Summary The following versions of CISA Malcolm are affected: Malcolm Malcolm <=v26.08.0 (CVE-2026-107333,
Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. [...]
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. [...]