Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, has finally patched a critical zero-day that Rapid7 disclosed in late May when no fix existed. The flaw (CVSS 9.4, no CVE assigned yet) lets a logged-in user with no admin rights run commands on the server by opening a pull request whose branch name secretly injects an exec option into a git rebase. Because Gogs ships with open registration on by default, an attacker can simply create an account to reach it. Successful exploitation means full server takeover: reading every private repository, dumping password hashes, API tokens, SSH keys, and 2FA secrets, and tampering with hosted source code.
A security startup's autonomous AI agent scanned FFmpeg, the open-source media library built into countless video and audio tools, and turned up 21 previously unknown bugs, each with working proof-of-concept code that crashes or corrupts memory when the software processes a malicious media file. Several flaws are 15 to 20 years old; one dates back to 2003. Nine already carry CVE numbers (CVE-2026-39210 through CVE-2026-39218), and the rest are fixed but not yet numbered. The whole run cost about $1,000. Because FFmpeg sits inside browsers, media servers, and apps everywhere, any product that decodes untrusted video could be at risk.
Google shipped Chrome 149 with fixes for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single Chrome release. More than 100 are rated critical or high. The worst, an out-of-bounds read and write in the ANGLE graphics engine that Chrome uses to render web pages, lets a booby-trapped website break out of the browser's protective sandbox and run code on the victim's computer; Google paid a $97,000 bounty for it. None are confirmed under attack yet, but a sandbox escape is the kind of bug attackers race to weaponize, so patching before that happens matters.
Wordfence reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS 9.8), a remote code execution flaw in the Everest Forms Pro WordPress plugin (about 4,000 active installations) affecting all versions up to 1.9.12. The Calculation Addon's process_filter() function concatenates user-submitted form-field values into a PHP string and passes it to eval() without proper escaping; sanitize_text_field() does not escape single quotes, so unauthenticated attackers can inject and run arbitrary PHP by submitting a crafted value in any string-type field when a form uses the Complex Calculation feature. Exploitation began April 13; Wordfence has blocked 29,300+ attempts. The common payload creates a rogue admin named 'diksimarina.' Patch 1.9.13 shipped March 18.
Cisco has patched CVE-2026-20230, a critical server-side request forgery flaw in Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager), the central control system for Cisco IP telephony. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted HTTP request to write files to the underlying OS and later elevate to root - Cisco rated it Critical despite the CVSS score because of that root-escalation potential. Cisco's PSIRT is aware of public proof-of-concept exploit code but has not seen active exploitation yet. The flaw only affects systems with the WebDialer service enabled, which is off by default. There are no workarounds; admins should upgrade to 14SU6 or 15SU5, or disable WebDialer until patched.
Team Xint Code has disclosed CVE-2026-23479, a use-after-free remote code execution flaw in Redis that sat unnoticed in every stable branch from 7.2.0 until the May 5 fixes - over two years. The bug lives in unblockClientOnKey(), which keeps using a client pointer after processCommandAndResetClient() can free it. Exploitation needs an authenticated session, but Wiz's analysis finds Redis in most cloud environments with the majority running passwordless, where the default user already holds every privilege the exploit chain requires. The published exploit leaks a heap pointer via Lua, reclaims a freed client with a fake structure, and overwrites a GOT entry to repoint strcasecmp() at system(). NVD rates it 8.8.
Rapid7 has disclosed CVE-2026-0826, a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow in HP Poly VoIP phones that gives a remote attacker root-level code execution. Discovered during zero-day research against a Poly VVX 450, the flaw sits in SDP parsing for ICE-enabled phones: the device copies a candidate attribute into a 256-byte stack buffer without a length check, so an oversized ICE candidate in a crafted SIP INVITE overflows the stack and can overwrite the program counter. NX is enabled but ASLR misbehaves, loading shared libraries at fixed addresses that make a ROP chain practical. An attacker needs no authentication. Patches are available for affected models.
The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) has warned that threat actors are now exploiting CVE-2026-41089, a critical Windows Netlogon vulnerability that Microsoft patched during the May 2026 Patch Tuesday. Netlogon is a core Windows Server RPC service that authenticates users and services on domain-based networks. The flaw is a stack-based buffer overflow that lets an unauthenticated attacker send a specially crafted network request to a domain controller and gain remote code execution without signing in or any prior access. It impacts all currently supported Windows Server versions, including the latest release. Because domain controllers are high-value targets, successful exploitation can lead to full domain compromise.
Sysdig has documented a real-world intrusion in which a threat actor used an LLM agent to drive post-exploitation after compromising an internet-reachable Marimo notebook via CVE-2026-39987, a pre-authentication RCE affecting all Marimo versions up to 0.20.4 (fixed in 0.23.0). The attacker extracted two cloud credentials from the host, replayed them through a fanned-out egress pool to pull an SSH private key from AWS Secrets Manager, then used it to open eight short SSH sessions against a downstream bastion. The bastion phase exfiltrated the full schema and contents of an internal PostgreSQL database in under two minutes. The May 10 incident shows attackers operationalizing AI agents for hands-on-keyboard work.
Rapid7's Jonah Burgess has disclosed an unpatched argument-injection RCE in Gogs, the self-hosted Git service often used as a GitLab/GitHub Enterprise alternative. The flaw affects Gogs 0.14.2 and 0.15.0+dev and requires authentication, but Gogs ships with open registration enabled by default (DISABLE_REGISTRATION = false) and no repository creation limits, so any internet-facing default-configured instance is effectively unauthenticated-exploitable: an attacker creates an account and repo, enables rebase merging in settings, and the entire exploit chain runs without third-party interaction. Code execution lands as the Gogs server-process user. No CVE has been assigned and no patch is available; mitigations involve disabling open registration.
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