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NSE submission: detect & enumerate AI infrastructure (MCP servers + LLM inference APIs) Ben Williams via dev (Jun 20)
Hi,
I've opened a PR adding three NSE scripts and two shared nselibs to detect and enumerate two classes of AI
infrastructure that nmap doesn't currently cover:

* mcp-info (discovery, safe, version) + mcp-enum (discovery, safe): MCP server detection (initialize handshake over
Streamable HTTP + legacy SSE), OAuth 2.1 protected-resource discovery (RFC 9728), and read-only tools/resources/prompts
enumeration with schema-based risk...

[PATCH] nselib/bitcoin: add address classification helpers (refs #2857, PR #3371) Melo via dev (May 25)
PR #3371 adds three functions to nselib/bitcoin.lua:

- looks_like_address(value) -- regex candidate detection
- validate_address(value) -- Base58Check, Bech32, Bech32m validation
- classify_address(value) -- high-level classification

Supports mainnet, testnet, and regtest with full unittest (38/38 pass).
No network calls, no external APIs, no real keys, no changes to existing scripts.

PR: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3371
Issue:...

[NSE] matter-identify: identify Matter smart-home devices via mDNS Balázs Zoltán (May 11)
Hi,

Attached is matter-identify.nse, a new discovery script for identifying
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) smart-home devices.

It sends DNS PTR queries to 5353/udp for the three Matter service types
defined in the Matter Core Spec section 4:

_matter._tcp.local commissioned / operational nodes
_matterc._udp.local nodes in commissioning mode
_meshcop._udp.local Thread border routers

TXT records are decoded into VID,...

Re: Rahmat Ramadhan (May 01)
gaa

Pada Sen, 9 Mar 2026 08:20, Juan jose Rodriguez <
juanjoserodriguezmontoya35 () gmail com> menulis:

[PATCH 0/5] ALPN-based HTTP/2 service detection improvements Urval Kheni (Apr 14)
Hi,

This patch series introduces ALPN-based improvements to service detection
for TLS services.

It adds support for extracting the negotiated ALPN protocol and uses
"h2" as a conservative fallback signal to infer HTTP over TLS when
service detection fails.

This improves detection of HTTP/2-only services, which return binary
responses not recognized by existing probes.

The changes are structured as follows:

1. Fix OpenSSL provider...

Bug Report: ssl-enum-ciphers fails (EOF) on CloudFront/ECDSA targets supporting TLS 1.2 Jack Seredyniecki via dev (Apr 14)
Hello nmap dev team,

I am reporting a false negative where ssl-enum-ciphers fails to detect TLS
1.2 on a CloudFront target (itwisegroup.com:443) that uses an ECDSA
certificate and Post-Quantum hybrid key exchange (X25519MLKEM768).
While sslscan and openssl confirm TLS 1.2 is active, Nmap reports only TLS
1.3. My debug logs show the server is dropping the connection (EOF) during
the Nmap TLS 1.2 handshake attempt:
NSE: [ssl-enum-ciphers...

[PATCH] Support Linux capabilities for non-root raw packet scanning Ali Norouzi via dev (Apr 14)
Hi everyone,

I just opened a PR that adds support for Linux capabilities, allowing nmap to
perform raw packet scans without sudo when the binary has `CAP_NET_RAW` set via
setcap:

https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3333

Please review.

Best,
Ali

Fix for issue #3326 advait deshmukh (Apr 14)
Issue link <https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/3326>
Pull request link <https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3337>
I read the source code and, from what I understood, the current output
appears to be intentional. The ipv4 value being shown seems to refer to the
next header, i.e., the protocol of the packet encapsulated within the outer
packet, which in this case is IPv6.
Since the user has explicitly specified -6 in the command, it...

Interview Invitation for Educational Research Muhammad Hassan Tanveer via dev (Mar 31)
Hello Everyone!

We are conducting a research study on how organizations handle the
aftermath of cybersecurity incidents and we would greatly value your
perspective. Our focus is on what happens after a security incident is
resolved. How do teams reflect on these events? How do organizations
learn from incidents?

Are you a cybersecurity practitioner? We would love to hear from you! We
invite you to participate in a ~45-minute online...

Re: GSoC 2026: Password Security Wizard - Optimizing the NSE Brute Library Adithya Shetty (Mar 13)
Ah, my mistake.

I completely missed that banner on the site.

Thanks for letting me know Gordon

[no subject] Juan jose Rodriguez (Mar 08)
Contraseña

GSoC 2026: Password Security Wizard - Optimizing the NSE Brute Library Adithya Shetty (Mar 02)
Hi Nmap Development Team and Fotis,

My name is Adithya, and I am a 4th-semester Computer Science student
specializing in Cybersecurity. I am writing to express my strong interest
in the "Password Security Wizard" project for GSoC 2026.

Over the past few days, I have cloned the repository, set up my build
environment, and have been digging into the nselib/brute.lua library and
several of the -brute.nse scripts (specifically focusing on...

Question about Nmap and GSoC 2026 Sweekar (Jan 29)
Hi Nmap developers,

I am a student contributor and have previously worked on Nmap. I am
preparing for Google Summer of Code 2026 and wanted to ask whether Nmap is
considering participating as a mentoring organization this year, or if
there are no plans at this time.

Thank you for your time and for maintaining such an important project.

Best regards,
Sweekar

PR #3277: Clean up and harden POP3 helper login functions Sweekar (Jan 23)
Hello Nmap Developers,
As suggested in CONTRIBUTION.md i am writing this mail to notify about my PR
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3277

This PR refactors and fixes the POP3 authentication helper functions used
by NSE scripts, including pop3-brute.nse.

Main changes:

-

Hardened SASL LOGIN handling
-

Improved SASL PLAIN and CRAM-MD5 logic
-

Corrected APOP handling and report missing OpenSSL support
-

Normalized...

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Npcap Version 1.82 Released with VLAN Tagging and More Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Apr 28)
Dear Nmap Community,

In preparation for an imminent Nmap release (hopefully this week!), we have
released Version 1.82 of our Npcap Windows packet capture and transmission
driver. It builds upon the recent 1.81 release to add support for VLAN
tagging. This allows you to select for packets directed to a certain VLAN
or just inspect the VLAN headers on any packets received. It's especially
useful for Wireshark users. You can also now send...

Nmap 7.95 released: OS and service detection signatures galore! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (May 05)
Dear Nmap Community,

I just arrived in San Francisco for the RSA conference and am delighted to
announce our Nmap Version 7.95 release! I'm most excited that we finally
tackled our backlog of OS and service detection fingerprint submissions.
We're not talking about dozens or hundreds of them-we processed more than
6,500 fingerprints!

For OS detection, we added 336 signatures, bringing the new total to 6,036.
Additions include iOS 15...

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OpenBSD mpls_do_error: Remote Kernel Stack Disclosure via MPLS Label Stack Over-read shj (Jun 20)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenBSD mpls_do_error: Remote Kernel Stack Disclosure via MPLS Label
Stack Over-read
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Affected:  OpenBSD -current prior to 2026-06-18 (fixed in -current)
Vendor:    OpenBSD
Severity:  Medium
Reporter:  Argus Systems
Date:      2026-06-12
CVE:       CVE-2026-56099

1. SUMMARY
==========

The...

OpenBSD sppp_pap_input: PAP authentication bypass shj (Jun 20)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenBSD sppp_pap_input: PAP Authentication Bypass via Zero-Length bcmp
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Affected:  OpenBSD all versions through 7.6 (fixed in -current)
Vendor:    OpenBSD
Severity:  High
Reporter:  Argus
Date:      2026-06-16

1. SUMMARY
==========

The sppp_pap_input() function in sys/net/if_spppsubr.c uses...

SEC Consult SA-20260618-0 :: Hardcoded Root Cloud Credentials in Application Binaries in Silver Leaf Technologies - Worksnaps.net Worksnaps SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260618-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Hardcoded Root Cloud Credentials in Application Binaries
product: Silver Leaf Technologies - Worksnaps.net Worksnaps
vulnerable version: <1.6.20260201
      fixed version: 1.6.20260201
         CVE number: CVE-2025-10560
impact: critical...

SEC Consult SA-20260617-1 :: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Quanos Content Solutions - SCHEMA ST4 SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260617-1 >
=======================================================================
title: Multiple Vulnerabilities
            product: Quanos Content Solutions - SCHEMA ST4
 vulnerable version: All versions of SCHEMA ST4 on-premises
    fixed version: Not applicable, see workaround section for mitigation.
CVE number: CVE-2026-11857, CVE-2026-11858...

SEC Consult SA-20260617-0 :: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Sprecher Automation SPRECON-E-C/-E-P/-E-T3 SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260617-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities
product: Sprecher Automation SPRECON-E-C/-E-P/-E-T3
 vulnerable version: See vulnerable versions below
fixed version: See solution section below
         CVE number: CVE-2022-4333, CVE-2022-4332, CVE-2025-41741,
       ...

SEC Consult SA-20260616-0 :: Broken Access Control in syracom AG Secure Login (2FA) for Atlassian Jira / Confluence / Bitbucket #CVE-2026-12225 SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260616-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Broken Access Control
            product: syracom AG Secure Login (2FA) for Atlassian Jira /
Confluence / Bitbucket
 vulnerable version: 3.4.0.x
      fixed version: 3.5.0.0
CVE number: CVE-2026-12225
             impact: High...

APPLE-SA-06-16-2026-1 Beats Firmware Update 1B211 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
APPLE-SA-06-16-2026-1 Beats Firmware Update 1B211

Beats Firmware Update 1B211 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/en-us/127557.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

Bluetooth
Available for: Beats Studio Buds
Impact: An attacker within Bluetooth range may be able...

PHP 8.5.7 `levenshtein()` signed-integer overflow Khashayar Fereidani (Jun 20)
# PHP 8.5.7 `levenshtein()` signed-integer overflow

**Author:** Khashayar Fereidani
**Disclosure Date:** 2026-06-18
**Advisory:** https://fereidani.com/php-857-levenshtein-signed-integer-overflow
**Contact:** https://fereidani.com/contact

## Description

The `levenshtein()` function calculates the Levenshtein distance
between two strings, optionally accepting custom costs for insertion,
replacement, and deletion operations. In PHP 8.5.7, the...

PHP 8.5.7 `dom_xml_serialization_algorithm()` stack-overflow Khashayar Fereidani (Jun 20)
# PHP 8.5.7 `dom_xml_serialization_algorithm()` stack-overflow

**Author:** Khashayar Fereidani
**Disclosure Date:** 2026-06-18
**Advisory:** https://fereidani.com/php-857-domxmlserializationalgorithm-stack-overflow
**Contact:** https://fereidani.com/contact

## Description

The `dom_xml_serialization_algorithm()` and
`dom_xml_serialize_element_node()` functions in
`ext/dom/xml_serializer.c` rely on unbounded recursion to serialize
XML nodes....

PHP 8.5.7 `mb_substr()` 'SJIS-mac' size_t underflow Khashayar Fereidani (Jun 20)
# PHP 8.5.7 `mb_substr()` 'SJIS-mac' size_t underflow

**Author:** Khashayar Fereidani
**Disclosure Date:** 2026-06-18
**Advisory:** https://fereidani.com/php-857-mbsubstr-sjis-mac-sizet-underflow
**Contact:** https://fereidani.com/contact

## Description

The `mb_get_substr()` function in `ext/mbstring/mbstring.c`
deliberately skips an early empty return guard for the `SJIS-mac`
encoding when `from >= in_len`. As a result, it falls...

PHP 8.5.7 `FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED` uninitialized read Khashayar Fereidani (Jun 20)
# PHP 8.5.7 `FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED` uninitialized read

**Author:** Khashayar Fereidani
**Disclosure Date:** 2026-06-18
**Advisory:** https://fereidani.com/php-857-filtersanitizeencoded-uninitialized-read
**Contact:** https://fereidani.com/contact

## Description

In `ext/filter/sanitizing_filters.c`, the `php_filter_encode_url`
function leaves the `255`th byte (`0xFF`) of a transient array
uninitialized. An array of 256 bytes is populated...

CVE-2025-68624: Cross-Tenant Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in N-able Mail Assure Alessandro Bertoldi BCS via Fulldisclosure (Jun 20)
CVE-2025-68624: Cross-Tenant Authentication Bypass by Spoofing in N-able Mail Assure

CVE ID: CVE-2025-68624
Status: DISPUTED
CWE: CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing)
Affected Product: N-able Mail Assure (formerly SolarWinds MSP Mail Assure)
Affected Service: N-able Mail Assure cloud-based multi-tenant SMTP relay infrastructure
Vendor: N-able Technologies
Initial Discovery: October 2018
Public Disclosure: November 2025, DeepSec Vienna...

SEC Consult SA-20260615-1 :: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wertheim SafeController Hardware for VAULT ROOMS (Safe Deposit Locker System – Microcontroller) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 15)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260615-1 >
=======================================================================
title: Multiple Vulnerabilities
          product: Wertheim SafeController Hardware for VAULT ROOMS
(Safe Deposit Locker System – Microcontroller)
vulnerable version: Controller 65000 - AssemblyVersion 6.11.8130.22319
                    Controller...

SEC Consult SA-20260615-0 :: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Wertheim SafeController Software for VAULT ROOMS (Safe Deposit Locker System) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 15)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260615-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities
product: Wertheim SafeController Software for VAULT ROOMS
(Safe Deposit Locker System)
vulnerable version: AssemblyVersion 6.15.8328.28014
fixed version: No information provided by vendor
CVE number:...

SEC Consult SA-20260610-0 :: Local Privilege Escalation in Slate Digital Connect (macOS) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Jun 15)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260610-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Local Privilege Escalation
product: Slate Digital Connect (macOS)
 vulnerable version: 1.37.0
fixed version: -
CVE number: CVE-2026-24066, CVE-2026-24067
             impact: high
homepage:...

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OpenAI Codex Security Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Mar 07)
https://openai.com/index/codex-security-now-in-research-preview/

As you might have noticed we've released Codex Security and if you have a
ChatGPT business or enterprise or edu or pro subscription (which is most of
y'all) then you have access ! Just go to chatgpt.com/codex/security and
hopefully it pulls up cleanly for you. If not, probably my fault in some
way.

If you do have access then I'd love it if you would:

1. Say what...

RE//verse, DistrictCon, an Anole Friend Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Feb 02)
Last month was DistrictCon, a great conference that I did not attend
because the sky decided to dump snow on Washington, DC. Anyone who has
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flight out of DCA and turn the roads into skating rinks filled with deeply
furious government contractors. Life is short, so I remained in Miami where
it was 80 degrees and everyone was pretending winter is a myth.

Today it is...

feeling the air Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jan 05)
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interstates, perched like huge awkward toddlers on lampposts, or standing
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them somewhere overhead, wings spread wide, fingers splayed, feeling the...

Re: Defense ? Dean Pierce via Dailydave (Nov 16)
I like the idea of having a software supply chain that people can pay into
that basically funds a universal bug bounty system for anything that
matters.

You can put systems in place that utilize zero knowledge exploitability
proofs to automate bounty triage, so it doesn't even need to be run by a
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with is a software ecosystem where anyone can build what they need...

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(gingerly raises head above parapet)

Historically, “we’ve” moved the bar in defense.

- Everything is now in the cloud, accessible 24/7 via APIs whose keys are stored in plaintext alongside code, or via
preauthenticated sessions
- Everything has ~40 dependencies, each of which has ~40 dependencies, etc, which, combined with a published CVE rate
of 1 per 15 minutes (calendar year 2024), means that patching an enterprise before an...

Re: Defense ? Alfonso De Gregorio via Dailydave (Nov 16)
Imbalances in the skills and workforce are real. The gap remains hard
to bridge also in the presence of greater degrees of automation that
AI buys us, because, at this stage, we want humans to be in the loop –
and for good reasons – and, also, cause we are not going to grow the
skillset faster than the attack surface, I am afraid.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will take a bite
regardless: those imbalances are a byproduct of the...

Re: Defense ? Conan Dooley via Dailydave (Nov 16)
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rust would only make sense if you could find a team that could actually
maintain and support that code base, which I don't know that you could.

Like...

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CVE-2026-12844: List::SomeUtils::XS versions before 0.59 for Perl have a heap buffer overflow in the pairwise function Paul Johnson (Jun 25)
========================================================================
CVE-2026-12844 CPAN Security Group
========================================================================

CVE ID: CVE-2026-12844
Distribution: List-SomeUtils-XS
Versions: before 0.59

MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/List-SomeUtils-XS
VCS Repo: https://github.com/houseabsolute/List-SomeUtils-XS...

libexpat 2.8.2 fixes 14 vulnerabilities (integer overflow, out-of-bounds write, ..) Sebastian Pipping (Jun 25)
Hello oss-security,

just a quick note that libexpat 2.8.2 (or "Expat 2.8.2") released
today is fixing 13 vulnerabilities of three classes:

- 1x out-of-bounds write
- 3x missing control flow integrity checks
- 9x integer overflow

The related section of the change log says this:

#1246 CVE-2026-50219 -- Disallow calls to functions
`XML_GetBuffer`, `XML_Parse`, `XML_ParseBuffer`,...

Several vulnerabilities were found in NLnet Labs NSD Willem Toorop (Jun 25)
Several vulnerabilities were found in NLnet Labs NSD.
We have released version 4.14.3 as a security release today,Thursday 25
June, with the fixes to these issues.

The overview of the vulnerabilities with a brief description is:

CVE-2026-12244 - severity: HIGH
Heap overflow and crash with crafted SVCB RR

CVE-2026-12245 - severity: HIGH
Denial of DNS over TLS service by any DoT client

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Out of bounds stack write...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-09 for DNSdist: Multiple issues Remi Gacogne (Jun 25)
Hi all,

Today we released two new versions of DNSdist, 1.9.12 and 2.0.3, fixing
several security issues that have been reported to us. These security
issues are low-severity or involve unusual configurations.

The issues fixed in these releases are:

- CVE-2026-40011: An attacker sending a large number of crafted DNS
queries might be able to trigger a dynamic block being inserted with a
value causing invalid output to be produced in the...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-08 for PowerDNS Recursor: Multiple issues Otto Moerbeek (Jun 25)
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.2.11, 5.3.8 and 5.4.3.

These releases provide fixes for PowerDNS Security Advisory

* 2026-08 for PowerDNS Recursor: Multiple issues

There are several CVEs associated with this advisory, the first with
severity High (but only applicable to specific configurations), the
rest of severity Medium.
__________________________________________________________________

*...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-07: Insufficient input validation of internal web server Miod Vallat (Jun 25)
Today, we are releasing three new versions of the PowerDNS
Authoritative Server. These 4.9.16, 5.0.6 and 5.1.2 versions provide
fixes for the following PowerDNS Security Advisory:
* [1]PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-07: Insufficient input
validation of internal web server

Please make sure to read the [2]Upgrade Notes before upgrading.

The tarballs ([3]4.9.16, [4]5.0.6), [5]5.1.2) and their signatures
([6]4.9.16, [7]5.0.6), [8]5.1.2)...

CVE-2026-54226: Apache Kvrocks: RESTORE IntSet Integer Overflow Leads to Remote DoS Hulk Lin (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Kvrocks (apache/kvrocks) 2.6.0 through 2.15.0

Description:

A vulnerability in Apache Kvrocks.

This issue affects Apache Kvrocks: from 2.6.0 through 2.15.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.16.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

朱少扬 (reporter)

References:

https://kvrocks.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54226

CVE-2026-46752: Apache Kvrocks: Stack buffer overflow in Lua bit.tohex() Hulk Lin (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Kvrocks (apache/kvrocks) 2.0.4 through 2.15.0

Description:

Redis Lua HEAP overflow in cjson library vulnerability in Apache Kvrocks.

This issue affects Apache Kvrocks: from 2.0.4 through 2.15.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.16.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

Jincheng Yang (reporter)

References:

https://kvrocks.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46752

CVE-2026-46751: Apache Kvrocks: Does not remove the unsafe loadstring function from its Lua sandbox, allowing a user who can run EVAL scripts to load crafted, unvalidated bytecode that crashes the server process, resulting in a remote denial of service. Hulk Lin (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Kvrocks (apache/kvrocks) 2.2.0 through 2.15.0

Description:

A vulnerability in Apache Kvrocks.

This issue affects Apache Kvrocks: from 2.2.0 through 2.15.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.16.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

4ra2n (A code security AI agent) (finder)

References:

https://kvrocks.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46751

CVE-2026-45188: Apache Kvrocks: Replication Fullsync Path Traversal via Unvalidated Filename Handling Hulk Lin (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Kvrocks (apache/kvrocks) 1.0.0 through 2.15.0

Description:

Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Kvrocks.

This issue affects Apache Kvrocks: from 1.0.0 through 2.15.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.16.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

@Brubbish of VARAS@IIE (reporter)

References:

https://kvrocks.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45188

CVE-2026-41566: Apache Kvrocks: Improper permission for the APPLYBATCH command Hulk Lin (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Kvrocks 2.8.0 through 2.15.0

Description:

Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges vulnerability in Apache Kvrocks.

This issue affects Apache Kvrocks: 2.8.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.16.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

Qing Xu (reporter)

References:

https://kvrocks.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41566

[vim-security] Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding in Vim < 9.2.0725 Christian Brabandt (Jun 24)
Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding in Vim < 9.2.0725
=========================================================
Date: 24.06.2026
Severity: Medium
CVE: *requested, not yet assigned*
CWE: Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)

## Summary
The single-byte branch of `spell_soundfold_sal()` in `src/spell.c` translates
a word through a spell file's SAL (sound-folding) rules into a caller-owned
result buffer. Its result writes are guarded with...

CVE-2026-56130: Apache Shiro: Remember-me cookie isn't checked for expiry on the server Lenny Primak (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Shiro (org.apache.shiro:shiro-web) 1.2.4 through 2.99.99
- Apache Shiro (org.apache.shiro:shiro-web) 3.0.0-alpha-0 through 3.0.0-alpha-1

Description:

"Remember me" cookie age is not verified on the server. This potentially allows an attacker to intercept a valid cookie
and reuse it indefinitely, even after the configured expiration time has passed.
This issue affects all Apache Shiro versions...

CVE-2026-56091: Apache Shiro: Authentication bypass in Guice-Web integration Lenny Primak (Jun 24)
Severity:

Affected versions:

- Apache Shiro (org.apache.shiro:shiro-guice) through 2.99.99
- Apache Shiro (org.apache.shiro:shiro-guice) 3.0.0-alpha-0 through 3.0.0-alpha-1

Description:

When using Apache Shiro with the shiro-guice module in a web servlet context, a specially crafted HTTP request may
cause an authentication bypass.
This vulnerability is similar to https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1957 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord...

Re: libssh2: CVE-2026-55200 (critical), CVE-2025-15661 (high), CVE-2026-55199 (high) Sevan Janiyan (Jun 24)
Ignore this, I was wrong.

Sevan

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Re: BGP Stuck Routes Operational Experience Survey Hank Nussbacher via NANOG (Jun 25)
Hi,

When a zombie route appears in some stub or esoteric ASN, the damage is
minimal.
But when a zombie route appears in someone as large as AS3356, that
causes chaos.
Here is a traceroute for 128.139.7.0/24 - 30 minutes after a withdrawal
was issued:

  1 vl-51-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.51.1) [AS 3582] 116 msec 48 msec 48 msec
  2 10.252.19.140 48 msec 48 msec 48 msec
  3 10.252.10.177 48 msec 48 msec
    10.252.9.177 48 msec
  4...

Server boxes/packing request Tom Storey via NANOG (Jun 24)
Hi all, would anyone in the Los Angeles area happen to have recently taken
a delivery of, or will be taking an imminent delivery of, Dell PowerEdge
740xd servers and have their boxes and foam inserts available that you'd
like to get rid of?

We're looking to ship about 14 of these and need boxes and foam inserts to
pack them up.

Thanks

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Tom Beecher via NANOG (Jun 24)
I'm unclear what you mean 'just works' with current products.

I'm also unclear what v4 / v6 usage %'s has to do with this subject (
single vs dual ISP/uplink).

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Saku Ytti via NANOG (Jun 23)
When measuring use, we shouldn't measure bytes moved per AFI.

Because if you care about bytes moved, you can pick some big tech that
loads their global caches over IPv6 and you might be confused to think
that traction is good.

We should be looking at SRC,DST pairs over all traffic, billion bytes
is the same as 1 byte, the internet is still sometimes used for
something else than looking at big tech ads, not much by byte count,
but by...

OARC 47 Call for Contribution Willem Toorop via NANOG (Jun 23)
This workshop will be a hybrid event.

Date - 09-10 November 2026
Location - Vancouver, British Columbia
Times - approximately 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local time PDT is UTC -7; note
that British Columbia has opted to remain on PDT all year round)

Deadline for Submissions - 2026-08-24 23:59 UTC

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/58/abstracts/

All DNS-related subjects and discussion topics are welcome although
we're particularly keen to hear more...

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Arie Vayner via NANOG (Jun 23)
Tom,

a certain way, that may require more complexity that has to be paid for. (
in equipment or expertise.) Or > they can just swap cables and reboot
something once in a while, and find that acceptable.

I don't think this is a valid expectation.

The reality is they just make it work with current products, over IPv4, and
the IPv6 usage graph is stuck at 50% and doesn't really move up (at least
not fast enough).

Tnx
Arie

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Shane Ronan via NANOG (Jun 23)
But when something works with IPv4, we shouldn't expect that the user
experience is reduced when moving to IPv6.

Shane

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Tom Beecher via NANOG (Jun 23)
This is just the standard complexity vs cost question.

If someone wants 2 upstreams , that's easy. If they expect it to function a
certain way, that may require more complexity that has to be paid for. ( in
equipment or expertise.) Or they can just swap cables and reboot
something once in a while, and find that acceptable.

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Nick Hilliard via NANOG (Jun 23)
Gary Sparkes via NANOG wrote on 23/06/2026 03:54:

Surely what you mean is: "They just won't support my software. It's
simple enough"?

Nick

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Saku Ytti via NANOG (Jun 23)
Available solution in the toolbox.

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) andrew--- via NANOG (Jun 23)
I'm amazed anyone in this list would consider PAT in IPv6 as a preferred solution.

If you need fast failover multihoming with consumer-class connections (ignoring the fact that connections will still
break when failover occurs), then use NPT between the two providers. Pick your primary ISPs prefix as your internal
prefix, NPT to the other one, no port translation needed. Or use ULA, whatever.

This multihoming issue could have been solved...

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Saku Ytti via NANOG (Jun 23)
I think it's entirely fair to want for A but know that B must be done.

Like of course I always wanted that IPv6 would bring some brave new
world of end-to-end Internet. But I want a lot of good things for this
world, which are naive things to want under the incentives the world
has.

And in this case, not budging on our principles which cannot be
achieved is causing tremendous harm.

IPv4 market size is about size of Portugal or New...

Re: LAG/ECMP and 'exact-route' Pedro Prado via NANOG (Jun 22)
Arista does have a command that does exactly this (?)

*Pedro Martins Prado*
pedro.prado () gmail com / +353 83 036 1875 (FaceTime & WhatsApp)

Re: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Arie Vayner via NANOG (Jun 22)
I think I see a misalignment with reality:

Yes, anyone using "BGP to connect to the Internet" is required to have some
level of competence, agreed.

BUT: we can't expect everyone who wants to connect to the Internet to have
that level of competence.
If someone's a graphic designer working from home, and they want resiliency
with 2x ISPs, I don't think we can expect them to have (or be able to
afford) the level of...

RE: BGP user friendliness (was Re: IPv4 flag day) Gary Sparkes via NANOG (Jun 22)
And for those customers who do 1:many nat, my software just won't support them. It's simple enough.

NPT/1:1 NAT is fine. PAT 1:many is not. The "NAT is cancer" statement is entirely relevant.

NPT for SMB stuff is braindead simple - click a few checkboxes. That's the 1:1 scenario that just works and doesn't
require extra code (outside of external address detection) to support unlike 1:many PAT.

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Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/healthcare-ransomware-pay-sophos/

Healthcare organizations, already an attractive target for ransomware given
the highly sensitive data they hold, saw such attacks almost double between
2020 and 2021, according to a survey released this week by Sophos.

The outfit's team also found that while polled healthcare orgs are quite
likely to pay ransoms, they rarely get all of their data returned if they
do...

A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://wskg.org/npr_story_post/a-digital-conflict-between-russia-and-ukraine-rages-on-behind-the-scenes-of-war/

SEATTLE — On the sidelines of a conference in Estonia on Wednesday, a
senior U.S. intelligence official told British outlet Sky News that the
U.S. is running offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine.

“My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defense and
the president, and so that’s what I do,” said...

Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/researchers-uncover-malware-controlling.html

The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this
year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new
research.

Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under
the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections"
detected in 2021, accounting for more than...

FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/fbi_cisa_warn_karakurt_extortion/

The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang
Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some
cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.

In a joint advisory [PDF] this week, the FBI, CISA and US Treasury
Department outlined technical details about how Karakurt operates, along
with actions to take,...

DOJ Seizes 3 Web Domains Used to Sell Stolen Data and DDoS Services Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/doj-seizes-3-web-domains-used-to-sell.html

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of
three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information
and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire.

This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the
former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and
offered a...

Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state
interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft
Office to achieve code execution on affected systems.

"TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using
URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the
technique,"...

US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of
Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News.

In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how "hunt
forward" operations were allowing the United States to search out foreign
hackers and identify...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1, 000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder
has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020.

"Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand
out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence
of their attacks and the large collection of encrypted and obfuscated...

Hackers are Selling US University Credentials Online, FBI Says Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned US universities and colleges
that it has found banks of login credentials and other data relating to VPN
access circulating on cybercriminals forums.

The fear is that such data will be sold and subsequently used by malicious
actors to orchestrate attacks on other accounts owned by the same students,
in the hope...

Interpol Nabs 3 Nigerian Scammers Behind Malware-based Attacks Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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Interpol on Monday announced the arrest of three suspected global scammers
in Nigeria for using remote access trojans (RATs) such as Agent Tesla to
facilitate malware-enabled cyber fraud.

"The men are thought to have used the RAT to reroute financial
transactions, stealing confidential online connection details from
corporate organizations, including oil and gas...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in
hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's
malicious cyber intrusions.

That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the
Department of the...

FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but
they "routinely" target security misconfigurations for initial access, so
the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its
peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today's heightened threat
environment.

CISA, the FBI and National...

Fifth of Businesses Say Cyber-Attack Nearly Broke Them Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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A fifth of US and European businesses have warned that a serious
cyber-attack nearly rendered them insolvent, with most (87%) viewing
compromise as a bigger threat than an economic downturn, according to
Hiscox.

The insurer polled over 5000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, France,
Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to compile its annual Hiscox
Cyber...

Hacker And Ransomware Designer Charged For Use And Sale Of Ransomware, And Profit Sharing Arrangements With Cybercriminals Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New
York, charging Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), also known as
“Nosophoros,” “Aesculapius” and “Nebuchadnezzar,” a citizen of France and
Venezuela who resides in Venezuela, with attempted...

State of Ransomware shows huge growth in threat and impacts Matthew Wheeler (May 04)
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Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware
experiences in its ‘State of Ransomware 2022’ report. This shows that 66
percent of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from
37 percent in 2020.

The average ransom paid by organizations that had data encrypted in their...

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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-25 Research via Snort-sigs (Jun 25)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the os-windows and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

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Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

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Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
malware-cnc, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-16 Research via Snort-sigs (Jun 16)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

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Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
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coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-09 Research via Snort-sigs (Jun 09)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17103:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter
Driver that may lead to an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with:
Snort 2: GID 1, SIDs 66607 through...

Re: Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-04 Jonathan Lee via Snort-sigs (Jun 08)
Hello Snort Team ET issued a bug last night and it was cause the engine to not start.

Issue Summary:
Following the automated nightly rule update, the Snort service on the WAN interface crashed and failed to start. The
issue was caused by two separate syntax errors introduced upstream in last night's Emerging Threats (ET) rule package
release.

Technical Details & Root Causes:

Rule SID 2054074 (ET EXPLOIT Kingdee Cloud Star...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-04 Research via Snort-sigs (Jun 04)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-identify,
file-other, server-apache and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-06-02 Research via Snort-sigs (Jun 02)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-cnc,
os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-28 Research via Snort-sigs (May 28)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-cnc and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-26 Research via Snort-sigs (May 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie and
os-linux rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-21 Research via Snort-sigs (May 21)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-19 Research via Snort-sigs (May 19)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-other,
file-pdf, malware-cnc and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage
for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-14 Research via Snort-sigs (May 14)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-05-12 Research via Snort-sigs (May 12)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2026-33835:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter
Driver that may lead to an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with:
Snort 2: GID 1, SIDs 66438 through...

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