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Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of September 29, 2026.

  1. Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL
    — Bleeping Computer

    Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. […]
  2. Apple Zero-Day Vulnerability Weaponized in Targeted Attacks
    — Dark Reading

    Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write flaw, in an extremely sophisticated fashion, according to Apple.
  3. Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps
    — Bleeping Computer

    Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating…
  4. Unsloth Studio Flaw Turns Routine Model Inspection Into Code Execution
    — Dark Reading

    A patched Unsloth Studio vulnerability allows malicious AI models to execute arbitrary Python code during inspection, via the trust_remote_c…
  5. Custom ChatGPTs push ClickFix attacks to deploy RAT malware
    — Bleeping Computer

    Custom variants of OpenAI's ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickF…
  6. French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
    — The Hacker News

    An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and busines…
  7. New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
    — The Hacker News

    A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affect…
  8. Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor
    — The Hacker News

    Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Wind…
  9. Cloudflare Announces Public Certificate Authority for the Post-Quantum Web
    — Dark Reading

    Automated certificates for everyone, built for today, and hardened for the era of quantum computing.
  10. Scans for Wordfence Protected Websites, (Tue, Sep 29th)
    — SANS ISC

    Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a so…
  11. OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture
    — Unit 42

    We introduce OperTraitor, a tool to audit privileges of Kubernetes operators, identify excessive RBAC risks, and secure non-human identities…
  12. ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10114, (Tue, Sep 29th)
    — SANS ISC

    (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

🪲 NVD — Last 20 Scored Vulnerabilities

Latest scored CVEs from the National Vulnerability Database (14782 in last 30 days).
Critical: 6 · High: 10 · Medium: 3 · Low: 1. View full dashboard →

  1. CVE-2026-103043
    — CVSS 7.5 (HIGH)

    anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated …
  2. CVE-2026-103042
    — CVSS 7.5 (HIGH)

    LightLLM through 1.2.0 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the NCCL control channel when started with –pd_trans_mode nccl, allowing unauthenticated attackers to exhaust KV-transfer worker memory. Attackers can…
  3. CVE-2026-103041
    — CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL)

    LightLLM through 1.2.0 multimodal deployments expose an unauthenticated RPyC cache service with pickle deserialization enabled on all interfaces. Attackers can send crafted serialized objects to exposed cache methods to …
  4. CVE-2026-103040
    — CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL)

    LightLLM through 1.2.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the router profiler service when started with –enable_profiling flag. The service exposes an unauthenticated RPyC server with pickle deserializati…
  5. CVE-2026-102792
    — CVSS 9.1 (CRITICAL)

    A vulnerability was detected in Ziroom ZHOME A0101 1.0.1.0. This affects the function set_syslog of the file /api/ZRnetwork/set_syslog. The manipulation of the argument conloglevel/log_size results in command injection. …
  6. CVE-2026-91191
    — CVSS 7.5 (HIGH)

    The device's update mechanism includes conditions that allow unauthorized software packages to be accepted as authentic. During the boot process, the stock done function disables signature verification in the OPKG config…
  7. CVE-2026-84409
    — CVSS 7.5 (HIGH)

    The device's update mechanism retrieves metadata for software updates over an unencrypted HTTP connection and stores portions of that metadata for later use. A management interface subsequently returns this stored value …
  8. CVE-2026-74225
    — CVSS 7.1 (HIGH)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains out-of-bounds memory access in dhcp6_parse_options() that fails to validate SERVERID and CLIENTID option lengths from DHCPv6 packets. Attackers on the local network can send crafted DHC…
  9. CVE-2026-74222
    — CVSS 8.2 (HIGH)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the httpc_recv_cb() function within the lwIP wget implementation. When HTTP data storage fails, the callback frees the connection PCB but returns ERR_B…
  10. CVE-2026-74221
    — CVSS 8.2 (HIGH)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains a buffer overflow in nfs_readlink_reply() function in net/nfs-common.c when processing NFS server responses. A malicious NFS server can send crafted READLINK replies with negative or ov…
  11. CVE-2026-74220
    — CVSS 8.2 (HIGH)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains a buffer overflow in nfs_read_reply() function in net/nfs-common.c that allows attackers to corrupt memory by supplying crafted NFS READ reply lengths. A malicious NFS server can exploi…
  12. CVE-2026-72510
    — CVSS 9.0 (CRITICAL)

    The "supplier_no" parameter used in the business allocation search feature is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL injection.
  13. CVE-2026-72507
    — CVSS 9.0 (CRITICAL)

    The "reportType" parameter in the product summary report feature within the balancing reports section is susceptible to a time-based blind SQL injection vulnerability.
  14. CVE-2026-71974
    — CVSS 4.8 (MEDIUM)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc3 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in read_slotted_partition() that fails to validate image size against partition bounds. Attackers with physical access can supply crafted boot media…
  15. CVE-2026-71973
    — CVSS 5.2 (MEDIUM)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc4 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in sqfs_read_directory_table() function when allocating the directory table buffer. Attackers can supply a crafted SquashFS image with an attacker-cont…
  16. CVE-2026-71972
    — CVSS 5.9 (MEDIUM)

    U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the video_display_rle8_bitmap function in drivers/video/video_bmp.c. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image to corrupt memory …
  17. CVE-2026-71971
    — CVSS 8.2 (HIGH)

    U-Boot before 2026.10-rc3 with CONFIG_IP_DEFRAG enabled contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the __net_defragment() function in net/net.c. Remote attackers can send a crafted IP fragment with non-zero offset …
  18. CVE-2026-71379
    — CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL)

    The file export endpoint allows any unauthenticated attacker to export arbitrary database tables by sending a crafted POST request.
  19. CVE-2026-71302
    — CVSS 7.1 (HIGH)

    The application accepts user-supplied session identifiers and does not regenerate the session ID after authentication. This allows an attacker to predefine a session ID and reuse it after victim authentication, resulting…
  20. CVE-2026-71189
    — CVSS 3.5 (LOW)

    An attacker can construct a request that, if issued by another application user, will cause JavaScript code supplied by the attacker to execute within the user's browser in the context of that user's session with the app…

Source: NVD CVE API 2.0

Generated by CryptXNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · September 29, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC, THN Threat Intel, Unit 42, Security.com