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Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities and KEV Mandates

Topic tracking vulnerabilities under active exploitation, CISA's KEV catalog additions, and mandated federal remediation deadlines.

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securityOne report1 publisher

PaperCut's 26.0.4 patch left its exploited pre-auth RCE chain reachable

PaperCut's 27 August 2026 advisory of in-the-wild exploitation hid a pre-auth RCE chain whose first patch, 26.0.4, watchTowr defeated within a day. Operators who patched once and stopped tracking the CVEs may still be reachable without credentials.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives45
Confidence55
securityConfirmed4 publishers

China-based actor targets U.S. Rejetto HFS servers through a forgeable admin cookie

VulnCheck says a China-based actor began targeting vulnerable U.S. Rejetto HFS servers on October 1, exploiting CVE-2026-61500 to forge admin sessions. The fix shipped in July as version 3.2.1. Exposed instances that have not updated are reachable now.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 43%
Operator
Operator 47%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

F5 and Cisco report live exploitation in two of the three security products Canada's Cyber Centre flagged

F5 and Cisco say attackers are exploiting flaws in BIG-IP APM and ISE, two of the three security products in Canada's September 2026 Cyber Centre alerts. Three alerts are too few to show a trend in attacker targeting, but the two exploited products need fixed software now.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Canada's Cyber Centre flags live attacks on a pre-login Roundcube SQL injection

Canada's Cyber Centre says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48842, a no-login SQL injection in Roundcube's virtuser_query plugin rated 8.1. Only unpatched servers running that plugin are exposed, and Shadowserver flags 10 vulnerable hosts out of more than 523,000 online.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 70%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-93952 in VeloCloud Orchestrators that authenticate Edges by certificate

Arista says the pre-authentication flaw is already being used against on-premises orchestrators that issue certificates to their Edge devices, and the fixed build an operator needs may not exist for their release train yet.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 14%
Operator
Operator 76%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence75
securityOne report1 publisher

Attackers hit Cisco's email gateway with a SQL injection zero-day before the patch shipped

CVE-2026-76461 is one of three flaws confirmed under active attack in a single week. Revolut's customer records left by a different route, a request sent from an email address on a government agency's own domain.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption62
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence47
buildOne report1 publisher

A crafted HTTP request runs commands as root on unpatched Cisco ISE nodes

Cisco and CISA confirm CVE-2026-76460 is being exploited in the wild. The flaw sits in the ISE and ISE-PIC management API, scores 10.0, and affects vulnerable releases whatever optional features are turned on.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption52
Hype gap0
Incentives30
Confidence58
securityOne report1 publisher

CVE-2026-24858 let attackers log into Fortinet devices registered to other customers

Fortinet switched off FortiCloud SSO worldwide on January 26 and turned it back on the next day with server-side changes. Devices already fully patched against the two 2025 SAML bypasses were compromised anyway.

Publishers:cisa.gov

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption66
Hype gap−8
Incentives40
Confidence65
securityOne report1 publisher

Attackers have been pushing VBScript through live ScreenConnect sessions since August 20

ConnectWise fixed CVE-2026-84869 in ScreenConnect 26.6.5 after Huntress traced a modified client dropping four VBScript files onto machines it held active sessions with. CISA gave federal agencies three days.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption58
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence62
securityOne report1 publisher

Unpatched TeamCity server gave attackers AWS IAM credentials from JetBrains' Cadence backup

CVE-2026-63077 was in CISA's KEV catalog on August 5. JetBrains dates the intrusion into its own Cadence environment from August 8 to August 24, and every secret that touched the service now needs rotating.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption38
Hype gap−8
Incentives66
Confidence64
securityOne report1 publisher

Attackers dump PaperCut databases through the freshly patched auth bypass chain

PaperCut shipped emergency fixes for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 on Thursday and Friday, and by the weekend Defused was watching honeypot intruders bypass authentication and read database tables instead of running code.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption58
Hype gap+18
Incentives58
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

A UDP packet is now enough: IKEEXT RCE moves from patch queue to fire drill

CVE-2026-33824 gives unauthenticated attackers SYSTEM on Windows hosts answering IKEv2 on UDP/500 or 4500, and exploitation is confirmed. The fix shipped in April 2026.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption38
Hype gap+12
Incentives41
Confidence52