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Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266 , is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver processes XZ chunked data, and Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) detailed it on July 15. A fix shipped on June 25 in 7-Zip 26.02 . The overflow lets an attacker "execute code in the context of the current process," per the advisory. The code runs with the token 7-Zip itself holds and gains no privileges of its own. On Windows, a normally launched 7-Zip runs under a filtered standard-user token even on an administrator account, so the attacker inherits those limited rights unless the program was started elevated. The bug came in from Landon Peng of Lunbun LLC, who reported it to 7-Zip on June 5. ZDI rates the flaw 7.0, or High, not the Critical several write-ups reached for. The full CVSS 3.0 vector is AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H . The AV:L makes it a local attack vector, not a network-re...

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production infrastructure earlier last week. "We identified unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by our services," the company said in a statement. While an investigation into the intrusion remains ongoing, Hugging Face said it has found no evidence that the AI agent tampered with public, user-facing models, datasets, or Spaces, and its own software supply chain. The starting point of the attack was the data processing pipeline itself, with a malicious dataset abusing two code execution paths, viz., in its remote code dataset loader and a template injection in a dataset configuration, to run code on a processing worker.

Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does as you, with your source, your SSH keys and your cloud tokens. Cursor keeps re-running it for as long as the project stays open. No prompt injection, no agent, no model in the loop, and no prior access to the machine: opening the folder is the entire exploit, and the result is arbitrary code execution as the logged-in user. AI security firm Mindgard reported the flaw to Cursor on December 15, 2025 and  published full technical details  on Tuesday, seven months later. There is still no patch, and Cursor has published no advisory for the issue. The mechanism takes about a sentence. Cursor checks several locations for a Git binary when a project loads, and one of them is the workspace itself. Process Monitor output in t...

SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to potentially cause the appliance to make requests to an unintended location. CVE-2026-15410 (CVSS score: 7.2) - A post-authentication code injection vulnerability rooted in the Appliance Management Console (AMC) that a remote authenticated attacker could exploit to execute arbitrary operating system commands as administrator under certain conditions. SonicWall said it has "investigated multiple cases indicating the active exploitation of the vulnerabilities," urging customers to apply the fixes as soon as possible. The patches are available in the following versions - 1...

Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that could allow specially crafted emails to execute malicious scripts in a user's session. It has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier. "The update fixes a security issue in the Classic Web Client where a specially crafted email could run malicious code when the email is opened," Zimbra said . "If exploited, it could allow access to mailbox information, session data, or account settings." XSS vulnerabilities occur when an application includes untrusted data in a web page without proper validation or escaping. This allows attackers to inject and execute malicious JavaScript in victims' browsers, which can result in session hijacking, credential theft, and account compromise. Stored XSS, or persistent ...

Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other two could let an attacker who slips a malicious image in front of the bootloader run their own code, before the device has confirmed that the software is genuine. That last part is the point. A bootloader runs before the operating system, so a flaw here can undermine everything that loads after it. All six bugs are reached while U-Boot is still reading an untrusted image, before it has checked the signature. What Binarly found U-Boot can bundle a kernel, device tree, ramdisk, and other boot components into one package, a FIT (Flattened Image Tree), and it checks that package's digital signature before handing over control. Binarly went looking for weak spots in that check and found six. Most of the vulner...

Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows - GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score: 8.8) - An operating system command injection and an incomplete list of disallowed inputs vulnerability impacting the host execution environment filtering mechanism that could allow for executing or persist actions beyond the caller's intended authorization. GHSA-9969-8g9h-rxwm (CVSS score: 8.8) - An operating system command injection and an incomplete list of disallowed inputs vulnerability impacting the host execution environment filtering mechanism that could allow for executing or persist actions beyond the caller's intended authorization. GHSA-575v-8hfq-m3mc (CVSS score: 8.4) - A path traversal and link f...

Argo CD , a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component's internal network port. Synacktiv , which found the bug, says it can lead to a full cluster takeover. There is no fix and no CVE. The firm says it reported the flaw to Argo CD's maintainers in January 2025; roughly eighteen months later, it remains unpatched, so it published the details to warn users. The bug sits in repo-server, the Argo CD component that reads Git repositories and builds Kubernetes manifests, the files that define what the cluster deploys. Its internal gRPC service has no authentication; anyone who can reach it can send a crafted request to run a command. Synacktiv demonstrated the attack against Argo CD v2.13.3 and reports no patched release; it did not publish a full list of affected versions. The technique abuses kustomize , a standard tool Argo ...

Adobe has released patches for multiple maximum-severity security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign Classic. The ColdFusion updates "resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and security feature bypass," Adobe said in an alert released Tuesday. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-48276, CVE-2026-48283 (CVSS scores: 10.0) - Unrestricted upload of file with dangerous type vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2026-48277, CVE-2026-48281, CVE-2026-48316 (CVSS scores: 10.0) - Improper input validation vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A path traversal vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2026-48313 (CVSS score: 9.3) - A path traversal vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read CVE-2026-48315 (CVS...

Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks through an affected device. "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device," Cisco said in an advisory released earlier this month. "A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write files to the underlying operating system that could be used later to elevate to root." In a post shared on X earlier this week, Defused Cyber said it observed active exploitation of the vulnerability in attacks. "This is currently being exploited from a single sourc...

Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by means of a fake error report crafted using Sentry, an open-source error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform. "The attack exploits a critical architectural flaw at the intersection of Sentry's event ingestion (which accepts arbitrary payloads from anyone with the DSN) and the Sentry MCP server (which returns this data to AI agents as trusted system output)," security researchers Ron Bobrov, Barak Sternberg, and Nevo Poran said . The idea is to inject crafted input into Sentry error events, which are then interpreted by coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor as legitimate diagnostic resolution steps and run attacker-controlled code. A successful attack of this kind can expose sensitive data, includ...

GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the "npm install" command to trigger the execution of malicious code using npm lifecycle hooks. "Npm install" is used to download and install all the necessary dependencies for a Node.js project. Version 12 is scheduled for release next month. Describing install-time lifecycle scripts as the "single largest code-execution surface in the npm ecosystem," GitHub said the "npm install" command runs scripts from every transitive dependency, as a result of which a single compromised package anywhere in the dependency tree can run arbitrary code on a developer machine or CI runner. By blocking such behaviours, the idea is to require explicit user approval before code execution is initiated automatically durin...

Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.103 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page," reads a description of the flaw in the NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD). A security researcher named "303f06e3" has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw on April 27, 2026. The researcher has been awarded a bug bounty of $55,000 for responsible disclosure. As is customary in these cases, Google acknowledged that an "exploit for CVE-2026-11645 exists in the wild," but stopped short of sharing additional specifics to ensure that a m...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-34291 (CVSS score: 9.4) - An origin validation error vulnerability in Langflow that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and achieve full system compromise. CVE-2026-34926 (CVSS score: 6.7) - A directory traversal vulnerability in on-premise versions of Trend Micro Apex One that could allow a pre-authenticated local attacker to modify a key table on the server to inject malicious code to deploy to agents on affected installations. In a report published in December 2025, Obsidian Security said CVE-2025-34291 exploits three combined weaknesses: overly Permissive CORS, lack of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection, and an endpoint that allows code execution...

cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-29201 (CVSS score: 4.3) - An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the "feature::LOADFEATUREFILE" adminbin call that could result in an arbitrary file read. CVE-2026-29202 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An insufficient input validation of the "plugin" parameter in the "create_user API" call that could result in arbitrary Perl code execution on behalf of the already authenticated account's system user. CVE-2026-29203 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An unsafe symlink handling vulnerability that allows a user to modify access permissions of an arbitrary file using chmod, resulting in denial-of-service or possible privilege escalation. The shortcomings have been patched in the following versions - cPane...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google's agentic integrated development environment (IDE), Antigravity, that could be exploited to achieve code execution. The flaw, since patched, combines Antigravity's permitted file-creation capabilities with an insufficient input sanitization in Antigravity's native file-searching tool, find_by_name, to bypass the program's Strict Mode , a restrictive security configuration that limits network access, prevents out-of-workspace writes, and ensures all commands are being run within a sandbox context . "By injecting the -X (exec-batch) flag through the Pattern parameter [in the find_by_name tool], an attacker can force fd to execute arbitrary binaries against workspace files," Pillar Security researcher Dan Lisichkin said in an analysis. "Combined with Antigravity's ability to create files as a permitted action, this enables a full attack chain: stage a malicious script, then trigger ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of a high-severity security flaw impacting Gogs by adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7), relates to a case of path traversal in the repository file editor that could result in code execution. "Gogs Path Traversal Vulnerability: Gogs contains a path traversal vulnerability affecting improper Symbolic link handling in the PutContents API that could allow for code execution," CISA said in an advisory. Details of the shortcoming came to light last month when Wiz said it discovered it being exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerability essentially bypasses protections put in place for CVE-2024-55947 to achieve code execution by creating a git repository, committing a symbolic link pointing to a sensitive target, and using the PutContents API to write data to the symlink. This, in t...

Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have moved to address critical security flaws in their products that, if successfully exploited, could result in an authentication bypass and code execution. The Fortinet vulnerabilities affect FortiOS, FortiWeb, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager and relate to a case of improper verification of a cryptographic signature. They are tracked as CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719 (CVSS scores: 9.8). "An Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability [CWE-347] in FortiOS, FortiWeb, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager may allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass the FortiCloud SSO login authentication via a crafted SAML message, if that feature is enabled on the device," Fortinet said in an advisory. The company, however, noted that the FortiCloud SSO login feature is not enabled in the default factory settings. FortiCloud SSO login is enabled when an administrator registers the device to FortiCare and has not disabled the toggle ...

Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary code by loading untrusted PyTorch models, effectively bypassing the tool's protections. Picklescan , developed and maintained by Matthieu Maitre (@mmaitre314), is a security scanner that's designed to parse Python pickle files and detect suspicious imports or function calls, before they are executed. Pickle is a widely used serialization format in machine learning, including PyTorch , which uses the format to save and load models. But pickle files can also be a huge security risk , as they can be used to automatically trigger the execution of arbitrary Python code when they are loaded. This necessitates that users and organizations load trusted models, or load model weights from TensorFlow and Flax. The issues discovered by JFrog essentially make it possible to bypass the scanner, present the scanned model files as safe, and e...

Adobe has released security updates to fix a fresh set of security flaws, including multiple critical-severity bugs in ColdFusion versions 2025, 2023 and 2021 that could result in arbitrary file read and code execution. Of the 30 flaws in the product, 11 are rated Critical in severity - CVE-2025-24446 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An improper input validation vulnerability that could result in an arbitrary file system read CVE-2025-24447 (CVSS score: 9.1) - A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution CVE-2025-30281 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An improper access control vulnerability that could result in an arbitrary file system read CVE-2025-30282 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An improper authentication vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution CVE-2025-30284 (CVSS score: 8.0) - A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution CVE-2025-30285 (CVSS score: 8.0) - A deserialization of ...