LiteSpeed disclosed that versions of its Enterprise web server before 6.3.7 contain a flaw that lets a low-privilege website user gain root access on the underlying server. On shared hosting, that means one tenant, reachable through a cheap plan or a stolen webmail login, can take over the whole machine and every other customer on it. Neither LiteSpeed nor cPanel has published how the flaw works, its severity, a CVE identifier, or whether it has been exploited, leaving defenders with little to hunt for. Because the update may be slow to arrive automatically, administrators are urged to install 6.3.7 manually. LiteSpeed's cPanel plugin had two similar exploited flaws earlier this year.
F5 has issued out-of-band patches for two critical flaws in NGINX, the web server and reverse proxy that runs a large share of the internet. CVE-2026-42530 (a use-after-free in the HTTP/3 module) and CVE-2026-42055 (a heap overflow in the HTTP/2 proxy and gRPC modules), both rated 9.2, let a remote, unauthenticated attacker corrupt memory in an NGINX worker, crashing it for a denial of service and, where address-space randomization is disabled or bypassed, potentially running code. They affect non-default configurations across NGINX Open Source, Plus, Gateway Fabric, and Instance Manager. F5 has not seen exploitation yet, but its products are frequent attacker targets.