CVE-2026-27807

MarkUs (web app for assignment submission/grading) is affected by CVE-2026-27807 due to YAML files parsed with aliases enabled, enabling a billion‑laughs style DoS. The issue affects configurations uploaded prior to v2.9.4, where YAML parsing could be abused to exhaust resources. The CVSS vector ...

XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion Billion Laughs when parsing of custom XML entities in DOCTYPE. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive memory by submitting malicious SVG files containing recursive entity references. Workaround F...

XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion Billion Laughs when parsing of custom XML entities in DOCTYPE. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive memory by submitting malicious SVG files containing recursive entity references. Workaround F...

GHSA-XPQW-6GX7-V673 SVGO DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

Summary SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansion or recursion. This can result in a small XML file 811 bytes stalling the application and even crashing the Node.js process with JavaScript heap out of memory. Details The upstream XML parser sax doesn't interpr...

SVGO DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (Billion Laughs)

Summary SVGO accepts XML with custom entities, without guards against entity expansion or recursion. This can result in a small XML file 811 bytes stalling the application and even crashing the Node.js process with JavaScript heap out of memory. Details The upstream XML parser sax doesn't interpr...

Evaluating and Enhancing the Vulnerability Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in vulnerability detection. However, a critical reliability gap persists: models frequently yield correct detection verdicts based on hallucinated logic or superficial patterns that deviate from the actual root cause. This...

TikTok narrowly avoids a US ban by spinning up a new American joint venture

TikTok may have found a way to stay online in the US. The company announced late last week that it has set up a joint venture backed largely by US investors. TikTok announced T ikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on Friday in a deal valued at about $14 billion , allowing it to continue operating in the...

PT-2026-4631

📱Critical Bluetooth vulnerability CVE-2025-13834 disclosed! This RFCOMM flaw is a "Bluetooth Heartbleed" allowing unauthenticated memory read on 2.8B devices via a single malformed packet. https://t.co/7tYyP9ixpK cybersecurity infosec CVE Bluetooth vulnerability...

MiracleLinux 8 : prometheus-jmx-exporter-0.12.0-6.el8 (AXSA:2021-1339:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2021-1339:01 advisory. snakeyaml: Billion laughs attack via alias feature CVE-2017-18640 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux securi...

CVE-2017-18369

The Billion 5200W-T 1.02b.rc5.dt49 router distributed by TrueOnline has a command injection vulnerability in the Remote System Log forwarding function, which is accessible by an unauthenticated user. The vulnerability is in the advremotelog.asp page and can be exploited through the syslogServerAd...

CLSA-2026-1767799681 expat: Fix of 3 CVEs

Rebase to version 2.5.0 - CVE-2024-28757: prevent billion laughs attacks in isolated external parser part of 839, reject direct parameter entity recursion part of 839 - CVE-2025-59375: fix memory amplification and add allocation tracker - CVE-2013-0340: properly handle entities expansion...

CLSA-2026-1767799061 expat: Fix of 3 CVEs

Rebase to version 2.5.0 - CVE-2024-28757: prevent billion laughs attacks in isolated external parser part of 839, reject direct parameter entity recursion part of 839 - CVE-2025-59375: fix memory amplification and add allocation tracker - CVE-2013-0340: properly handle entities expansion...

CLSA-2026-1767798754 expat: Fix of 3 CVEs

Rebase to version 2.5.0 - CVE-2024-28757: prevent billion laughs attacks in isolated external parser part of 839, reject direct parameter entity recursion part of 839 - CVE-2025-59375: fix memory amplification and add allocation tracker - CVE-2013-0340: properly handle entities expansion...

Emoji-Based Jailbreaking of Large Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs are integral to modern AI applications, but their safety alignment mechanisms can be bypassed through adversarial prompt engineering. This study investigates emoji-based jailbreaking, where emoji sequences are embedded in textual prompts to trigger harmful and unethical...

Wiz Becomes Fastest Security ISV to Reach $1 Billion in AWS Marketplace Lifetime Sales

A milestone fueled by customer trust and a partnership built for scale...

WhatsApp closes loophole that let researchers collect data on 3.5B accounts

Messaging giant WhatsApp has around three billion users in more than 180 countries. Researchers say they were able to identify around 3.5 billion registered WhatsApp accounts thanks to a flaw in the software. That higher number is possible because WhatsApp’s API returns all accounts registered to...

1 million victims, 17,500 fake sites: Google takes on toll-fee scammers

A Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platform based in China, known as “Lighthouse,” is the subject of a new Google lawsuit. Lighthouse enables smishing SMS phishing campaigns, and if you’re in the US there is a good chance you've seen their texts about a small amount you supposedly owe in toll fees...

PT-2025-46479

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in Windows Administrator Protection related to an untrusted search path. This allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. Approximately 1 billion devices...

Adapting Large Language Models to Emerging Cybersecurity Using Retrieval Augmented Generation

Security applications are increasingly relying on large language models LLMs for cyber threat detection; however, their opaque reasoning often limits trust, particularly in decisions that require domain-specific cybersecurity knowledge. Because security threats evolve rapidly, LLMs must not only...

Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details

Good Wall Street Journal article on criminal gangs that scam people out of their credit card information: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic...