SEAD: A State-Based Perspective on Attack and Defense in Tool-Using Agents

Language-model agents increasingly use tools to act on external systems. Earlier actions can alter files, permissions, database records, or other state, making a later routine-looking action harmful. Yet the visible interaction may not reveal the underlying state needed to assess that action. We...

CVE-2026-16835

CVE-2026-16835 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.6) vulnerability in the FSP management network protocol of IBM Power Systems Firmware, caused by improper certificate validation (CWE-295). An unauthenticated attacker on the management network can bypass authentication and perform any administrative operation...

CVE-2026-16835 Power System Improper Certificate Validation

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 is affected by a vulnerability in the FSP management network protocol. An unauthenticated attacker on the management network can bypass authentication and perform any...

QEMU PCI SRIOV Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the hw/pci/pciesriov.c component of the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to the unsafe external control of critical data states. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2021-30874

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. A VPN configuration may be installed by an app without user permission...

389-ds-base: sync_repl NULL pointer dereference in sync_create_state_control()

A flaw was found In 389-ds-base. When the Content Synchronization plugin is enabled, an authenticated user can reach a NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted query. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is t...

New Relic: Adding your account to victim's app via deeplink

At your android app, there is a feature for passwordless login. It sends an email and if you click the link, it triggers a deeplink on the app for login. I think this feature needs a state control, for example setting loginstatetoken=ABC on the requester device and adding this loginstatetoken to...

Cisco HyperFlex Critical Data States Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the Cisco HyperFlex hyper-converged infrastructure is related to the insecure external control of critical data states. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to create valid signed tokens for sessions and enhance their privileges...

Citrix SD-WAN Path State Sensitivity Control Overview

Bad Loss Sensitive – Select a setting from the drop-down menu. The options are: Enable– Default If enabled, paths will be marked BAD due to loss, and will incur a path scoring penalty. Disable – Disabling Bad Loss Sensitive can be useful when the loss of bandwidth is intolerable. Custom – Select...

Libyan authorities restrict internet access !

The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country. On Friday and Saturday night the country experienced a near black-out, with continued patchy access this week, according to a Google Transparency Report. Libya has had periods of partial or total...