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Security News — 4 November 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 9 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 4 November 2026 · 27 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 6
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs04 Nov
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Authentication bypass
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL · Vendor: Google VitaFit cloud API before 2026-10-30 contained an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows remote attackers to obtain a full session for a victim's account by submitting a linked Google or Facebook…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs04 Nov
CriticalCVSS 9.8
CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL · Vendor: IBM IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge 4.0.0 through 5.4.0 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a use-after-free vulnerability.
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs04 Nov
CriticalCVSS 9.3
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL VitaFit cloud API before 2026-10-30 contained a broken access control vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to obtain temporary AWS credentials by calling the POST /front/user/s3/token/ endpoint. Attackers can…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs04 Nov
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Product
- Comfast CF-WR632AX
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL A vulnerability was detected in Comfast CF-WR632AX 2.6.0.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /usr/bin/webmgnt of the component Multipart Parser. Performing a manipulation of the argum…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs04 Nov
HighCVSS 8.8
- Audience
- Endpoint/mobile users
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 8.8 HIGH VeraCrypt provides disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt. Prior to 1.26.30, the Unix, macOS, and FreeBSD serialization paths in src/Platform/Serializer.cpp and src/Volume/VolumePassword.cpp accept untrusted…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs04 Nov
HighCVSS 8.7
CVSS 8.7 HIGH tsParticles is a TypeScript library for creating highly customizable particle animations. Prior to 4.3.1, the HTTP mode of @tsparticles/mcp-server calls JSON.parse outside a request-local error boundary in the POST /mcp handl…
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Other CVEs 3
Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.
CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs04 Nov
MediumCVSS 5.3
CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM Open edX Platform enables the authoring and delivery of online learning at any scale. From the Ulmo release until release/ulmo.4 and release/verawood.1, the GET /api/support/v1/manage_course_team/ endpoint in CourseTeamMana…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs04 Nov
MediumCVSS 5.3
CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM ezBookkeeping is an open source, self-hosted personal finance application. From 0.10.0 until 1.6.0, ezBookkeeping constructs its Gin router with gin.New() without configuring SetTrustedProxies, causing c.ClientIP() to trust…
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)04 Nov
One of the early web application vulnerabilities I remember was CVE-2000-0411 [CVE]. This was a simple vulnerability in a CGI-bin script used to send e-mail. The vulnerability was pretty straightforward: Adding additional parameters to the…
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Threat Activity 9
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
The Hacker News04 Nov
SonicWall has warned of two vulnerabilities impacting end-of-life Global Management System (GMS) systems that it said will not be patched. Details of the security flaws, which affect SonicWall GMS 9.5.2 and earlier versions, are below - CV…
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Dark Reading04 Nov
Google alleges that Android device manufacturer Videostrong ran the operation, which infected set-top boxes and IoT devices with a backdoor to create infrastructure for criminal activity.
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Dark Reading04 Nov
An attacker could write arbitrary files and read sensitive files via images uploaded to the Rails Active Storage ImageMagick integration, possibly positioning a threat actor for lateral movement.
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BleepingComputer04 Nov
Vercel is gradually rolling out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) on its platform as a key defense against information stealer malware. [...]
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BleepingComputer04 Nov
France's national blood service has confirmed that a cyberattack targeting a refrigeration equipment provider raised temperature and defrost settings at three of its facilities, threatening stored blood products. [...]
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The Hacker News04 Nov
A flaw in APT, the package manager for Debian and Ubuntu, allows an attacker who can modify package downloads to swap a checked package for their own. The attacker's code then runs as root, according to advisories that Debian, Ubuntu, and…
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The Hacker News04 Nov
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an OpenAI Codex jailbreak bundle that's designed to modify an artificial intelligence (AI) agent's trusted instructions to insert advertisements for a third-party AI gateway. The phenomen…
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PortSwigger Research04 Nov
You can now escalate HTTP header injection to a CRLF-Powered Desync and exploit it to serve random users a redirect to your collaborator, in a single prompt. We’ve just introduced a new scan check for
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Dark Reading04 Nov
Organizations may not be ready for completely autonomous communication processes, but there are places where automating information updates would alleviate pressure.
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Breaches & Incidents 5
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer04 Nov
Exploited
Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability in its GS1900 series network switches that hackers exploited to compromise nearly 1,000 devices worldwide and steal configuration files and credentials. [...]
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The Hacker News04 Nov
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT29 is said to be behind a large-scale watering hole campaign targeting iOS and Android users through compromised websites, fake domains, and a supply chain attack involving a Ukrainian web analyti…
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BleepingComputer04 Nov
DreamHost is warning of a data breach after attackers gained access to its File Manager platform for two months and stole customers' FTP/SFTP usernames and passwords. [...]
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Dark Reading04 Nov
An unknown operator appears to have exfiltrated SQL Server backups from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in under a half hour.
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Elastic Security Labs04 Nov
The newest threats, etc report details how adversaries are weaponizing trust across the entire enterprise stack, abusing everything from AI assistants and npm supply chains to identity flows and legitimate management tools.
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Research & Detection 2
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
Elastic Security Labs04 Nov
I tested vector search on 7,454 turns of my own agent sessions. One in seven sessions needed review, the agent’s reasoning carried more signal than the prompt, and the stored vectors answer questions nobody thought to ask at ingest.
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)04 Nov
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Policy & Commentary 2
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Daniel Miessler04 Nov
Charcoal sketch of a person kneeling to repair a neighbour's hand water pump with a softly glowing tool while the neighbour fills a bucket, a quiet purple office tower standing in the background/images/focus-on-problems-not-companies-v2.we…
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Daniel Miessler04 Nov
A robot head cut open: its eyes feed a projector that throws a flame onto a screen, and one person sits in a chair watching/images/hard-problem-of-jealousy.webp/images/hard-problem-of-jealousy.webp One of the most discussed problems in phi…
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