Cisco Firewall DoS Flaw Exploited in ASA and FTD

Cisco firewall DoS flaw CVE-2026-76418: a crafted SSL VPN request reloads Cisco ASA and Secure FTD firewalls, exploited, CISA KEV, October 2026

A Cisco firewall DoS flaw is being exploited: one crafted request to the SSL VPN login can make a Cisco ASA or Secure FTD firewall reload unexpectedly. Cisco tracks it as CVE-2026-76418 (CVSS 8.6), and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 29. Only firewalls with secondary authentication set on a…

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Brotli RCE Vulnerability Node2Shell Added to CISA KEV

Brotli RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-111497 Node2Shell: decompression flaw in NodeJS, .NET and Python, October 2026

The Brotli RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-111497, known as Node2Shell, was added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on October 27. Brotli is compression code that sits inside runtimes, web servers and browsers, so the flaw lives in places nobody lists as a product. On October 26, researchers still disagreed on how reliably it gives code…

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BeyondTrust Remote Support Zero-Day Exploited

Brass key ring with a blue tag and a loose copied key, symbolizing the BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day CVE-2026-102764

A BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day has been exploited since August 29, and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 16. Google’s Mandiant ties the attacks to Armory Castle, a China-linked espionage group, and says any internet-reachable appliance on a vulnerable version should be treated as potentially compromised until it has been…

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Cisco Secure Email Gateway Zero-Day Exploited Again

Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day CVE-2026-76519: steel inspection box with an envelope in its slot and orange light leaking out

A Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day is under attack: one email with a crafted attachment lets an unauthenticated attacker write files and run commands as root. Cisco tracks it as CVE-2026-76519 (CVSS 9.8), and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 14. It is the second Secure Email Gateway flaw exploited…

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Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Chain Reaches Root

Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain CVE-2026-104935: a brushed-aluminium case with a broken blue tamper seal on a dark wooden floor, headline “Three Ivanti Zero-Days, One Root Shell”

Volexity found an Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain that gave one attacker unauthenticated root on a VPN appliance running the latest build at the time. Ivanti has fixed two of the three flaws. As of October 14, the third, the privilege escalation that turns a web-server foothold into root, has no fix. Ivanti’s own Integrity…

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