On the Security of Research Artifacts

Research artifacts are widely shared to support reproducibility, and artifact evaluation AE has become common at many leading conferences. However, AE mainly checks whether artifacts work as claimed and can be reproduced. It largely overlooks potential security risks. Since these artifacts are...

Root-Cause-Driven Automated Vulnerability Repair

Recent LLM-based systems have made automated vulnerability repair increasingly practical, but two challenges remain. First, without strong signals about where a bug originates, repair agents drift toward shallow edits that silence the observed failure while leaving the underlying defect unresolve...

hunter-max-oss

hunter-max A bug-bounty research framework. Two pieces: 1...

Roblox clamps down on chats and age checks as legal pressure builds

Roblox has long faced criticism over child safety on its platform. Now it has started settling with state attorneys over the issue, and the total is climbing fast. On April 21, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $12.2 million settlement with the child-focused online gaming...

MCP Pitfall Lab: Exposing Developer Pitfalls in MCP Tool Server Security under Multi-Vector Attacks

Model Context Protocol MCP is increasingly adopted for tool-integrated LLM agents, but its multi-layer design and third-party server ecosystem expand risks across tool metadata, untrusted outputs, cross-tool flows, multimodal inputs, and supply-chain vectors. Existing MCP benchmarks largely measu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-sonnet-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 1 solution for spell checking...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-kparts-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 3 solution for KParts...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-kjobwidgets-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 2 addon for KJobs...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-knotifyconfig-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 3 module for KNotify configuration...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-kiconthemes-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 3 integration module with icon themes...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: kf6-kglobalaccel-6.25.0-1.fc44

KDE Frameworks 6 Tier 3 integration module for global shortcuts...

ChatGPT, Is This Real? the Influence of Generative AI on Writing Style in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Papers

With the release of ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has significantly lowered the cost of polishing and rewriting text. Due to its widespread usage, conference organizers instated specific requirements researchers need to adhere to when using GenAI. When asked to rewrite text, GenAI can introduce...

Discourse authorization issue vulnerability (CNVD-2026-17254)

Discourse is Discourse open source set of open source community discussion platform. The platform includes features such as community , e-mail and chat rooms . Discourse suffers from an authorization issue vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to cause a user to purchase a lower tier...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-33074 Discourse: Vulnerability in discourse-subscriptions plugin allowing users to self-grant to higher tier subscriptions

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0 to before 2026.1.3, and 2026.2.0 to before 2026.2.2, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher tier subscription. This issue has been patched in...

CVE-2026-33074

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher...

CVE-2026-33074

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher...

CVE-2026-33074

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher...

CVE-2026-33074 Discourse: Vulnerability in discourse-subscriptions plugin allowing users to self-grant to higher tier subscriptions

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher...

EUVD-2026-17569

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, a user may be able to purchase a lower tier subscription but grant themselves the benefits that comes along with a higher...

CVE-2026-33074

CVE-2026-33074 affects Discourse (subs plugin). From versions 2026.1.0-latest up to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest up to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest up to before 2026.3.0, a user could purchase a lower-tier subscription yet obtain higher-tier benefits. Root cause details are not provid...