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Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws

Sep 19, 2026 Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence
Three researchers at the security firm  Hacktron  used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI's own login system. This was security research, not a real-world attack: the team reported the flaws to OpenAI, proved the access with a harmless pull request, and then stopped. From the first look, that internal access took under 72 hours. OpenAI confirmed a fix about 14 hours after the report, according to Hacktron, and on September 1 paid the team a $6,500 bounty. OpenAI said the award "recognizes the OpenAI-side finding, not the actions against Discourse," the open-source software that runs the forum. Testing the forum itself was outside its bug bounty program. OpenAI has not publicly described the login flaw, and it ...
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar

Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar

Sep 19, 2026 Security Operations / Artificial Intelligence
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SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

Sep 19, 2026 Vulnerability / Identity Security
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326 , is rated 8.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. The issue affects all versions of Access Rights Manager 2026.2 and prior. "SolarWinds Access Rights Manager was reported to be affected by an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability," SolarWinds said in an advisory released on September 17, 2026. "The issue stems from a hard-coded static key." The company credited Armadin security researcher Kai Huang with discovering and reporting the flaw, which has been patched in ARM 2026.2.1 . SolarWinds makes no mention of the vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The development comes nearly two months after the company shipped fixes for a critical flaw impacting Web Help Desk (WHD) (CVE-2026-28323...
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Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild

Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild

Sep 19, 2026 Vulnerability / Web Security
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. "Orkes Conductor 3.21.21 before 3.30.2 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands by submitting inline workflow definitions containing malicious JavaScript or Python expressions to the workflow API endpoint prior to authentication," a description of the flaw on the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) reads. "Attackers can exploit unsandboxed GraalVM evaluators configured with HostAccess.ALL or allowAllAccess(true) through INLINE, LAMBDA, DO_WHILE, and SWITCH task types to invoke arbitrary system commands via Java reflection or direct subprocess calls." In an outbreak alert issued this week, Fortinet ...
CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Sep 19, 2026 Vulnerability / Linux
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path that could allow local authenticated users to trigger memory disclosure or denial-of-service (DoS). CVE-2026-53266 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the ebtables Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) rewrite path that could allow a local attacker to trigger unintended system behavior, DoS, or local privilege escalation. CVE-2025-39964 (CVSS score: 7.8) - A race condition vulnerability that could allow concurrent writes to the same AF_ALG socket, allowing a local attacker to crash the system or corrupt cryptographic ope...
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