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Monday, August 17, 2026 · generated 2026-08-17 13:00 UTC · ~5 min read

Top developments

ShieldBreak bypasses Microsoft’s patch for earlier Defender flaw

Microsoft Defender’s latest patch bypass shows a familiar problem. A newly disclosed Microsoft Defender flaw called ShieldBreak shows that fixing one attack path doesn’t always close every route to the same result…

Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies

A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials.

Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a…

Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th)

Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing…

Video Call Exploit Chains Two Flaws in Unisoc Modems

Researchers found that by combining two vulnerabilities, they could take over an Android device by delivering a payload and getting the victim to answer their phone.

⚡ Weekly Recap: VMware Exploits, Windows 0-Day, MCP Attacks, Browser Hijacks and More

The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading…

Critical SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Exploited 3 Days After Disclosure

The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-58231 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code and compromise internal components.

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The…

Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices…

French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals

The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems and stole data belonging to 678,000 individuals.

Vulnerability watch

CVE-2026-19977 EFM · ipTIME A3004T CWE-287 CRITICAL 10.0

A vulnerability was detected in EFM ipTIME A3004T 14.19.0. The affected element is the function httpcon_check_session_url of the component Session Validation. Performing a manipulation results in improper authentication. Remote exploitation…

CVE-2026-19959 Edimax · EW-7478APC CWE-119 CRITICAL 9.9

A weakness has been identified in Edimax EW-7478APC 1.04. This affects the function formWanTcpipSetup of the file /goform/formWanTcpipSetup. This manipulation of the argument pppUserName causes stack-based buffer overflow. Remote exploitati…

CVE-2026-19961 Edimax · EW-7478APC CWE-119 CRITICAL 9.9

A vulnerability was detected in Edimax EW-7478APC 1.04. Affected is the function formWlSiteSurvey of the file /goform/formWlSiteSurvey. Performing a manipulation of the argument selSSID results in buffer overflow. The attack is possible to …

CVE-2024-13784 WordPress · Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms CWE-502 CRITICAL 9.8 · EPSS 0%

The Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.5 via deserialization of untrusted input from form submissions. This makes it…

CVE-2026-73056 siyuan-note · siyuan CWE-307 CRITICAL 9.8

SiYuan kernel versions before 3.7.4 contain an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability in the CheckAuth() middleware. The middleware accepts the API token (Conf.Api.Token) via an Authorization header (Token/B…

CVE-2026-73061 scriban · scriban CWE-284 CRITICAL 9.8

Scriban before 7.2.2 contains an access-modifier bypass vulnerability in TypedObjectAccessor that allows template code to write CLR object properties without setter-visibility checks. Attackers can modify properties with private, internal, …

CVE-2026-74790 scriban · scriban CWE-693 CRITICAL 9.1

Scriban before 7.0.0 caches TypedObjectAccessor by Type only without considering MemberFilter changes, allowing reused TemplateContext instances to expose members that should be hidden. Attackers can access filtered properties and fields by…

CVE-2026-74791 scriban · scriban CWE-226 HIGH 8.6

Scriban before 7.0.0 fails to clear the CachedTemplates dictionary when TemplateContext.Reset() is called, allowing cached templates to persist across reused contexts. Attackers can exploit request-dependent ITemplateLoader implementations …

CVE-2026-19979 GL.iNet · A1300 CWE-285 HIGH 8.3

A vulnerability was identified in GL.iNet A1300, AX1800, AXT1800, BE1400, BE3600, BE6500, BE9300, BE10000, E5800, MT2500, MT3000, MT3600BE, MT5000, MT6000, X2000, X3000 and XE3000 up to 4.8.x. Affected by this vulnerability is the function …

CVE-2026-19983 GL.iNet · A1300 CWE-77 HIGH 8.3

A vulnerability was detected in GL.iNet A1300, AX1800, AXT1800, MT2500, MT3000, MT6000, X3000 and XE3000 4.8.x. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /usr/bin/gl_nas_sys of the component NAS Command Service. The manipulatio…

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