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Actively exploited vulnerabilities
Current entries from CISA’s official Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. These are confirmed weaknesses attackers have used, not simulated attack-map traffic.
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CVE-2026-118527: Ivanti Connect Secure
Ivanti Connect Secure Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers Vulnerability
Ivanti Connect Secure contains a generation of predictable numbers or identifiers vulnerability that allows a remote authenticated attacker to upload files with attacker-controlled content to a known location on disk. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-104935 and CVE-2026-111357.
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CVE-2026-111357: Ivanti Connect Secure
Ivanti Connect Secure Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability
Ivanti Connect Secure contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability that could allow a local authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-104935 and CVE-2026-118527.
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CVE-2026-97229: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contain a integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration, due to insufficient regular expression validation.
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software contains an unchecked return value to NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Broadcom VMWare ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor with admin access to perform certain operations without being logged.
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CVE-2026-46300: Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable Vulnerability
Linux Kernel contains a missing initialization of a variable vulnerability that could allow for unintended modification of page-cache-backed data via failure to preserve the shared-fragment marker during socket buffer coalescing, causing ESP input processing to decrypt shared fragments in place. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to implant PHP webshells and run commands as root.
Binance reports $6.3 billion crypto theft after security breach
Binance says attackers submitted unauthorized withdrawals in a security incident with an estimated $6.3 billion impact, while partners have frozen about $3 billion. The exchange promises to cover losses and says wallet private keys were not leaked, but its preliminary laptop-compromise explanation and external attribution to North Korea still require final confirmation.