Researchers at runZero disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a tiny filesystem library that lets devices read FAT and exFAT media like USB drives and SD cards and that is bundled into the firmware of countless embedded and industrial products. The most serious, CVE-2026-6682, is an integer overflow when mounting a FAT32 volume that can lead to memory corruption and code execution, and several bugs are reachable through firmware update flows, not just physical media. The hard part is patching: FatFs is maintained by a single developer who did not respond to the researchers, so most of the memory-corruption flaws have no upstream fix and downstream vendors may never learn they are affected.
The original 2011 Microsoft certificates that underpin UEFI Secure Boot begin expiring in late June 2026, and organizations that have not rolled out the replacement 2023 certificates risk a slow erosion of boot-level security. Devices will keep starting normally, but once the old certificate authorities lapse they stop receiving Secure Boot updates for pre-boot components, leaving them more exposed to bootkits, and future bootloaders signed only with the new keys may fail to verify. Most consumer Windows PCs receive the 2023 certificates automatically through Windows Update, but Windows Server and many self-managed or older fleets need manual action. A second certificate that signs the Windows bootloader expires in October.