Rapid7 Analysis: GitLab CI/CD Regex Integer Overflow (CVE-2026-97229)

Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab released 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8 to fix CVE-2026-97229, an integer overflow in its CI/CD regular-expression handling. The issue was reported through HackerOne by joaxcar. GitLab assigned it a CVSS score of 10.0 and described possible code execution by an...

From One Account to Every Mailbox: Breaking Zimbra's Identity Boundaries (Part 1)

An enterprise mail server authenticates users, stores private communications, delivers recovery links, runs calendars, and sends mail that employees and other systems trust. Compromising it can therefore expose both email and the identities and workflows built around it. During a broader assessme...

Unauthenticated SQL Injection In Channel Software WebAlliance eCommerce

Overview While performing continuous red teaming exercises through Rapid7’s Vector Command service, Rapid7 discovered CVE-2026-108065, an SQL Injection vulnerability CWE-89 in Channel Software WebAlliance eCommerce.The exploit allows a malicious actor to read sensitive data from the database, or,...

Patch Tuesday - October 2026

Microsoft is publishing 1,413 own-product vulnerabilities on October 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 1,102 vulnerabilities in Windows. Anyone who enjoyed last month’s record-setting Patch Tuesday will love the October 2026 edition, because it’s much bigger still. As Rapid7 has noted over the course...

Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-104935)

Overview On October 13, 2026, Ivanti published a security advisory for CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass by spoofing CWE-290 affecting Ivanti Connect Secure ICS. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.0 score of 8.6 and allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary...

CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab

Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229, an integer overflow or wraparound CWE-190 in the CI/CD regular expression compiler affecting GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. GitLab assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv3.1 score of 10....

CVE-2026-21589: Critical unauthenticated arbitrary file access in Atlassian products

Overview On October 5, 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight products: Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crow...

SMTP is the key: BPFDoor and AVERAT hitting the network edge

Overview Rapid7 tracked a set of Linux samples that blend into the software and device conventions of the telecom environments they target. The set spans a newly observed BPFDoor variant, a BPF Rekoobe build seen against South Korean targets, a dropper, and six builds of a Linux implant we track ...

Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API authentication bypass exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-76504)

Overview On September 30, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76504, a critical API authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.1 score of 9.8 and results from improper handling of URL encoding CWE-177. An...

Zero-Day Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway: CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772

Overview On September 27, 2026, Citrix disclosed eight new vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including two critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772. Both of these RCE vulnerabilities carry a critical CVSSv4 score of 9.5, an...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Belgian Waffles, Chocolates, and…Modules-Frites?

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When Business Email Compromise Starts Rewriting Reality

Business Email Compromise BEC operates on a familiar playbook. Threat actors breach a mailbox, silently monitor operations, map approval chains, and ultimately exploit that access to divert funds or exfiltrate sensitive assets. This dynamic is central to our analysis as we kick off a series aroun...

CVE-2026-94127: Critical Unauthenticated RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM

Overview On September 22, 2026, F5 published a security advisory for CVE-2026-94127, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager APM. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to an affected...

CVE-2026-76461: Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 14, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway. The vulnerability has a reported CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and could allow an unauthenticated, remote...

CVE-2026-85706: Critical GitLab Path Traversal Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 10, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. The release addresses CVE-2026-85706, a critical path traversal vulnerability CWE-22 in the repository commits API with a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0. According to GitLa...

Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the...

Credentialed Pre-Port Discovery: Don't Probe the Host, Ask it

If your scan engine already holds credentials for a host, it can ask that host which ports are open instead of probing for them. Every scan begins with the same question: which ports on this host are open? Everything after it, from identifying services to checking for vulnerabilities to evaluatin...

Patch Tuesday - September 2026

Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities in Windows. Along with Microsoft fixes for 25 non-Microsoft CVEs, that brings the total number of vulnerabilities on the table today to 999. Whether this is the biggest Patch...

CVE-2026-86206, CVE-2026-86207: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Overview While conducting research into a recent N-able N-central authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-18577, Rapid7 Labs discovered two new vulnerabilities affecting the latest version of N-central. When chained together, these two vulnerabilities allow a remote unauthenticated attacker ...

Critical SonicWall SMA1000 Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549 Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 1, 2026, SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall SMA1000 appliances that the vendor says are being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-83548 and CVE-2026-83549, can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE ...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Payloads and Exploits, and Scanners, Oh my!

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PaperCut NG/MF Critical Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 27, 2026, PaperCut Software published an urgent security advisory stating that it is investigating active exploitation of a vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF. PaperCut has confirmed customer incidents and is treating the issue as a security emergency. At the...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-63520)

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CVE-2026-19490: Critical Vulnerability Affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

Overview On August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated...

New Report: AI threats are here. Why Q2 2026 signals the end of traditional patch cycles

You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers. The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time betwe...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Lot of summer shells and fit http profiles

This wrap-up brings a full-on shell parade. Thirteen shiny new modules landed, starting with a buffet of RCEs. WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard, a Pix-for-WooCommerce, and for those who like their exploits closer to...

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan. And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive...

Patch Tuesday - August 2026

Microsoft is publishing 421 vulnerabilities on August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 236 vulnerabilities in Windows. This is lower volume than last month’s record-breaking behemoth, but still one of the largest Patch Tuesday totals ever. There is no reason to suppose that Patch Tuesday will ever...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-55040)

Overview On July 14, 2026, Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-55040, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint. Today we are publishing a technical analysis of the vulnerability along with an accompanying proof-of-concept PoC script. Figure 1: The Rapid7 Labs PoC...

CVE-2026-63520: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

Rapid7 Analysis: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2026-63077)

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execut...

CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed...

Rapid7 Analysis: KindaRails2Shell (CVE-2026-66066)

Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, an arbitrary file read in Active Storage applications that use the Vips image processor with untrusted uploads. The affected Active Storage ranges are = 8.0, = 8.1, 8.1.3.1. Vips is the default...

Metasploit Pro 5.1 Released

Today marks the release of Metasploit Pro 5.1 - building upon the foundation laid in 5.0, adding new evasion primitives for HTTP Meterpreter payloads, support for tracking service hierarchies, a deeper and more interactive Network Topology view, and continuing our commitment to a modern, consiste...

KindaRails2Shell: CVE-2026-66066, Critical Arbitrary File Read and Possible Remote Code Execution in Ruby on Rails

Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, a critical vulnerability affecting Active Storage image processing when used in conjunction with the libvips image processing library. The vulnerability has a CVSSv4 score of 9.5 and is classifi...

Metasploit Framework 6.5 Released

Today we’re proud to announce that Metasploit Framework version 6.5 has been released. Over the past two years, with the help of countless contributors, we’ve added 422 new modules along with a whole slew of new features. Malleable C2 Profiles for HTTP One of the latest and most requested feature...

Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerabilities Allow Authentication Bypass and Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310)

Overview On July 29, 2026, Broadcom published security advisory VMSA-2026-0006 addressing multiple vulnerabilities in several VMWare products. Included in the advisory are two critical remotely exploitable vulnerabilities affecting VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2026-59309 and CVE-2026-59310. Both...

CVE-2026-63077: Critical unauthenticated remote code execution in JetBrains TeamCity

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unauthenticated vulnerability affecting all versions of TeamCity On-Premises. The issue is classified as deserialization of untrusted data and has a CVSS score of 9.8. An unauthenticated remote...

Rapid7 Analysis: Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-16232)

Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process affecting Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server MDS. By leveraging CVE-2026-16232, an unauthenticated attacker can...

CVE-2026-16232: Critical Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Security Management, Multi-Domain Management, and firewall products. The most urgent of these is CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process classified as...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products and Services: Q2 2026 in Review

If Q1 set the pace for Rapid7's tools, Q2 accelerated it. This quarter brought a steady stream of product enhancements, platform investments, and customer-driven innovation across Rapid7’s portfolio. Each release was designed with a clear goal in mind: helping security teams reduce complexity whi...

CVE-2026-63030: wp2shell a Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in WordPress Core

Overview On July 17, 2026, a GitHub Security Advisory was published for CVE-2026-63030, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting WordPress Core. While the official GitHub security advisory classifies the severity as Critical, the vulnerability has currently been...

Metasploit Wrap Up: An HTTP to SMB relay plus Payload Improvements

Metasploit Wrap Up Housekeeping While the Metasploit Framework will be continuing its weekly release cadence, bringing you dear reader our latest content, the Weekly Wrap Up is being shifted to a bi-weekly cadence. The team is planning to use the additional time between posts to record demos of...

CVE-2026-58644: Microsoft SharePoint Server Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing CVE-2026-58644, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server deployments. The vulnerability, which carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 Critical, results from the...

Sunsetting the Public AttackerKB Platform

What’s changing, where AttackerKB-style analysis will live, and how users can continue finding Rapid7 vulnerability intelligence. On August 18, Rapid7 will sunset the standalone public AttackerKB website as part of a broader effort to unify our vulnerability intelligence, exploit analysis, and...

Rapid7 MDR Team Discovers New SonicWall SMA1000 Zero Days being Actively Exploited (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410)

Overview On July 14, 2026, SonicWall published a security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities affecting SMA1000 Series remote access appliances, including the critical server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability CVE-2026-15409 CVSS 10.0 and the high-severity code injection vulnerability...

Patch Tuesday - July 2026

Microsoft is publishing 622 vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for two of the vulnerabilities published today, both of which are listed on CISA KEV, as well as public disclosure for on...

CVE-2026-55040: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Exploits for FlowiseAI CSV Agent and MacOS Package Kit

More AI, more software, more bugs! AI, it's all you hear about nowadays and everyone's got an opinion on it. Here at Metasploit, we care less about those opinions and more about the growing attack surface all this new software brings with it yeehaw exploits!. Take for example the new Flowise CSV...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Modules for SMB-to-Meterpreter, Peyara Remote Mouse RCE exploit, and more

It's Time to Upgrade Your SMB Session This week, Metasploit contributor Dean Welch has added an SMB to Meterpreter session upgrade module. It uses PsExec to facilitate the upgrade. Users can load the module with use windows/manage/smbtometerpreter and specify the session number they wish to...