Cisco disclosed and patched a second perfect-score authentication bypass in its Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager (formerly vSmart and vManage). The bug, CVE-2026-20182 (CVSS 10.0), was found by Rapid7 while investigating the earlier CVE-2026-20127 wave, and lives in the same vdaemon service over DTLS port 12346. An unauthenticated attacker can become a trusted peer of the controller, log in as a privileged internal account, hit the NETCONF interface, and rewrite the entire SD-WAN fabric. Cisco Talos already attributes limited in-the-wild exploitation to UAT-8616, an actor with operational-relay-box ties that has been targeting Cisco SD-WAN since 2023.
Quest KACE has a year-old maximum-severity authentication bypass (CVE-2025-32975, CVSS 10.0). Hunt.io researchers now report that an attacker exploited an unpatched KACE appliance at a Boston-area managed services provider called HIQ - then left their entire toolkit on a publicly accessible server with directory listing turned on. The exfiltrated 512 MB MariaDB dump turned out to contain the full appliance-managed endpoint list for over 60 named client organizations spanning law enforcement, government, healthcare, education, and private companies. None of those 60-plus organizations had any KACE relationship of their own - they were just customers of the MSP that ran it unpatched.
Ivanti disclosed Wednesday that attackers are exploiting a zero-day in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to gain admin-level remote code execution on enterprise MDM servers. CVE-2026-6973. Successful exploitation gives the attacker control over the MDM platform that pushes apps and configurations to managed mobile fleets - a foothold that can pivot into managed devices and the corporate identity layer. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day with a federal patch deadline next week. Ivanti products have a long history of zero-day exploitation.
Update on the cPanel ransomware wave covered May 3: attackers have shifted focus and are now targeting governments and managed service providers exploiting CVE-2026-41940. Security Affairs reports the operation is no longer just opportunistic mass-encryption of small business websites - the actors are deliberately looking for hosting accounts owned by government agencies and IT firms that manage downstream customers. CISA added the cPanel flaw to its KEV catalog Friday with a federal patch deadline of May 21. With 44,000 cPanel hosts already compromised in the initial wave, the secondary phase targeting MSPs has the potential to multiply impact through customer-tenant relationships - much like the 2023 Kaseya VSA campaign.
CISA added four flaws to KEV on April 24 with a May 8 federal deadline. The headline is CVE-2024-57726 (CVSS 9.9), a missing authorization in SimpleHelp RMM that lets a low-privileged technician mint API keys above their role and escalate to server admin; companion CVE-2024-57728 (CVSS 7.2) chains a path traversal for RCE. SimpleHelp featured in DragonForce and Akira ransomware campaigns last year. CVE-2024-7399 (CVSS 8.8) is a Samsung MagicINFO 9 path traversal with a public PoC since 2024. The fourth, CVE-2025-29635, is the D-Link DIR-823X bug we covered last week.
Shadowserver scan data published Friday shows over 10,500 Zimbra Collaboration Suite instances still unpatched against CVE-2025-48700, a Classic-UI XSS that Synacor fixed in June 2025 but CISA only added to KEV on April 20. Exposed servers split nearly evenly between Asia (3,794) and Europe (3,793). The flaw triggers when a victim simply views a crafted email - no clicks - and runs JavaScript inside their authenticated session for mailbox theft and MFA backup-code retrieval. Zimbra is a recurring APT target: Russia's Winter Vivern, APT29, and APT28 have all run Zimbra-XSS campaigns against NATO and Ukrainian targets.
Federal agencies have until April 30 - this Wednesday - to patch Apache ActiveMQ servers against CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution flaw that has been hiding in the open source message broker for 13 years. Shadowserver shows more than 7,500 ActiveMQ servers still exposed online and unpatched. The bug normally requires a login, but on ActiveMQ versions 6.0.0 through 6.1.1 a separate older flaw lets attackers skip the login step entirely - making this an unauthenticated remote takeover on those builds. The vulnerability was found using Anthropic's Claude AI assistant by a researcher at Horizon3.ai, who said the discovery was '80% Claude.'
CISA added CVE-2026-33825 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on April 23 with a May 7 federal patch deadline. The flaw, nicknamed BlueHammer, is a race condition in Windows Defender's file-remediation logic that lets an unprivileged local attacker overwrite arbitrary files on disk and escalate to SYSTEM on fully-patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 hosts. It was patched in Microsoft's April 8 Patch Tuesday but a working proof-of-concept had already been published to GitHub by a researcher called 'Chaotic Eclipse' on April 7, before the fix shipped. Huntress Labs saw in-the-wild exploitation from April 10, with attackers also picking up two sibling Defender zero-days the same researcher leaked: RedSun (another local privilege escalation) and UnDefend (a denial-of-service that blocks Defender from pulling security definition updates, effectively disarming the EDR). Those two still have no Microsoft patch. The combination - a working privilege-escalation path plus an unpatched technique to silently cripple Defender itself - makes this a priority hunt, not just a priority patch.
Shadowserver data shows 1,300+ internet-exposed Microsoft SharePoint servers remain unpatched against CVE-2026-32201, a spoofing flaw Microsoft confirmed as a zero-day and CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day the fix dropped in April Patch Tuesday. Fewer than 200 systems have been patched since the update shipped last week. The flaw affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. An unauthenticated attacker can perform network spoofing through improper input validation in a low-complexity attack that needs no user interaction, letting them view sensitive information and modify data, though not affect availability. Microsoft has not described the exploitation technique or attributed the attacks to a specific group, which is unusual for a zero-day and hints at an ongoing investigation. CISA ordered federal agencies to patch by April 28 under Binding Operational Directive 22-01, and given ongoing in-the-wild abuse, private-sector operators should treat that as their own deadline. SharePoint's habit of holding cached Office 365 tokens, SharePoint-signed refresh tokens, and IP on sensitive business processes makes any compromise a serious lateral-movement foothold, not a minor information disclosure.
CISA added a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager information disclosure flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Monday, ordering federal agencies to patch by Friday, April 24 - an unusually aggressive 4-day deadline that reflects confirmed active exploitation. CVE-2026-20133 is an unauthenticated remote flaw in the SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) API, caused by insufficient file system access restrictions. An attacker can access the API and read sensitive information from the underlying operating system - including credentials that enable follow-on attacks. Cisco patched it in late February alongside two other SD-WAN Manager flaws (CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122, both also added to KEV this week and confirmed exploited in the wild). Catalyst SD-WAN Manager is used to centrally manage up to 6,000 SD-WAN devices from one dashboard, making it a high-value target. Oddly, Cisco's PSIRT still says they have no evidence of public exploitation - contradicting CISA. CISA is treating its own intelligence as authoritative and has issued Emergency Directive 26-03 plus a Hunt & Hardening Guide for Cisco SD-WAN. Over the past several years CISA has tagged 91 Cisco vulnerabilities as exploited in the wild, six used by ransomware operations.
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