A week in security (February 23 – March 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Public Google API keys can be used to expose Gemini AI data Inside a fake Google security check that becomes a browser RAT Fake Zoom and Google Meet scams install Teramind: A technical deep dive How to understand and avoid Advanced Persistent Threats The Conduent...

Fake Xeno and Roblox Utilities Used to Install Windows RAT, Microsoft Warns

Fake Xeno and Roblox gaming tools are spreading a Windows RAT remote access trojan using PowerShell and LOLBins, Microsoft Threat Intelligence warns...

GHSA-72HV-8253-57QQ vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: sonarqube, dependency-track, opensearch, cassandra, nextflow, confluent-kafka, logstash, zipkin, apache-pulsar, kafka, strimzi-kafka-operator, celeborn, thingsboard, airflow, jenkins, spdx-tools-java, trino, kserve-modelmesh, infinispan, ruby3.2-jrjackson, spark,...

GHSA-72HV-8253-57QQ vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: cassandra, zipkin, conductor-fips, nextflow, zookeeper, pinot-fips, kafka, pinot, reposilite, management-api-for-apache-cassandra-4.1, akhq, geoserver, flyway-fips, kafka-bridge-fips, ontop-fips, knative-kafka-broker, infinispan, hono, cassandra-reaper, spark,...

PT-2026-41180

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Open WebUI versions prior to 0.8.6 Description A flaw in the chat completion API allows users to bypass tool restrictions, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or access. In the '/api/chat/completions' endpoint, the tool ids and tool...

RedTeam-MCP

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Buffer Overflow

psd-tools is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. The vulnerability is due to malformed RLE-compressed image data, where decoderle raises ValueError which propagated all the way to the user, crashing psd.composite and psd-tools export, and attackers can exploit it by crafting a PSD file with malformed...

RHSA-2026:3428 Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security update

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Trojanized Gaming Tools Spread Java-Based RAT via Browser and Chat Platforms

Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan RAT. "A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive JAR file named...

RLSA-2026:3428 Important: container-tools:rhel8 security update

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fixes: golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping CVE-2024-24785 crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive...

container-tools:rhel8 security update

An update is available for module.skopeo, aardvark-dns, crun, module.udica, module.cockpit-podman, module.criu, conmon, runc, containernetworking-plugins, python-podman, toolbox, module.oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, module.containers-common, podman, module.aardvark-dns, module.libslirp, fuse-overlayfs,...

CVE-2026-27809

psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Prior to version 1.12.2, when a PSD file contains malformed RLE-compressed image data e.g. a literal run that extends past the expected row size, decoderle raises ValueError which propagated all the way to the user, crashin...

CVE-2026-27967

Zed, a code editor, has a symlink escape vulnerability in versions prior to 0.225.9 in Agent file tools readfile, editfile. It allows reading and writing files outside the project directory when a project contains symbolic links pointing to external paths. This bypasses the intended workspace...

EUVD-2026-8875

The User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to incorrect file type validation in the 'WPUFAdminSettings::checkfiletypeandext' function and in the...

AZL-78680 CVE-2026-27141 affecting package azurelinux-image-tools for versions less than 1.2.0-2

Due to missing nil check, sending 0x0a-0x0f HTTP/2 frames will cause a running server to panic...

CVE-2026-1565 User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.2.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload

The User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to incorrect file type validation in the 'WPUFAdminSettings::checkfiletypeandext' function and in the...

CVE-2026-1565

The CVE-2026-1565 entry describes a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WP User Frontend (AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration) up to version 4.2.8. Root cause: incorrect file-type validation in WPUF_Admin_Settings::check_filetype_and_ext and Admi...

GHSA-24P2-J2JR-386W psd-tools: Compression module has unguarded zlib decompression, missing dimension validation, and hardening gaps

Summary A security review of the psdtools.compression module conducted against the fix/invalid-rle-compression branch, commits 7490ffa–2a006f5 identified the following pre-existing issues. The two findings introduced and fixed by those commits Cython buffer overflow, IndexError on lone repeat...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security update

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Overview psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files as described in specification. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data Data Amplification via the compression module. An attacker can cause application crashes...