CVE-2026-52817

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who...

CVE-2026-52817 Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Sudoers: /usr/bin/apt-get arguments allow privilege escalation

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who...

CVE-2026-52817 Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Sudoers: /usr/bin/apt-get arguments allow privilege escalation

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who...

CVE-2026-52817

In Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins prior to 5.1.0, the Debian.sudoers file allowed the nagios/icinga account to run /usr/bin/apt-get as root with unrestricted arguments. An attacker with the monitoring account can execute sudo apt-get update -o APT::Update::Pre-Invoke::="/bin/sh" to obtain a root ...

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern aka Cav3rn command-and-control C2 framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster...

⚡ 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 farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was...

Suspected China-Nexus Actor Exploits VMware vCenter Flaw, Deploys Babuk-Derived Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the exploitation of a newly patched security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat APT. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 CVSS score: 9.8, a severe directory-traversal vulnerability in t...

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 CVSS score: 9.8, a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that a...

Head Mare APT is exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched TrueConf server to deliver PhantomCore and PhantomGraph to video conference participants

Overview of the attack In July 2026, Kaspersky experts detected a new attack by the Head Mare group. Previously, we classified them as hacktivists, but now we define them as an APT group due to the sophistication of their TTPs and the absence of destructive activity encryption, wiping in the...

CVE-2026-18157

CVE-2026-18157 concerns the yggdrasil-worker-package-manager. A local attacker with existing system access can exploit an argument injection vulnerability in the APT backend, where specially crafted package names beginning with a hyphen are misinterpreted as apt-get options. Successful exploitati...

CVE-2026-18157

A flaw was found in yggdrasil-worker-package-manager. A local attacker with existing access to the system could exploit an argument injection vulnerability in the APT backend. This allows specially crafted package names, which begin with a hyphen, to be misinterpreted as command options by apt-ge...

CVE-2026-11386

An input validation and injection vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools. The client constructs APT source files such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-.list or their DEB822 equivalents using data received directly from the contract server response via...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-11386

An input validation and injection vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools. The client constructs APT source files such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-.list or their DEB822 equivalents using data received directly from the contract server response via...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-9494

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools. The client validates Ubuntu Pro APT credentials by executing /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper using the download-file command. During this process, the secret bearer token is embedded directly in...

CVE-2026-9494

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools. The client validates Ubuntu Pro APT credentials by executing /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper using the download-file command. During this process, the secret bearer token is embedded directly in...

CVE-2026-11386

An input validation and injection vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage-tools. The client constructs APT source files such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-.list or their DEB822 equivalents using data received directly from the contract server response via...

USN-8555-1: Ubuntu Advantage Tools (pro client) vulnerabilities

Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearer token in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. CVE-2026-9494 Frederick...

USN-8555-1 ubuntu-advantage-tools vulnerabilities

Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearer token in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. CVE-2026-9494 Frederick...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-9494

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu-advantage- tools. The client validates Ubuntu Pro APT credentials ...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-11386

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An input validation and injection vulnerability exists in Canonical ubuntu-pro-client formerly ubuntu- advantage-tools. The client constructs APT source files...