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KEV took delivery of the edge: a 10.0 in GitLab, a firewall that reloads on request, and two Ivanti links in somebody's chain
Six separate actively-exploited problems landed inside two days, and every one of them lives in something you cannot turn off for the weekend.
CISA added two flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on Thursday: CVE-2026-97229, the GitLab remote code execution bug rated 10.0, which an attacker tried against the Alpine Linux project's own GitLab server a week after the fix shipped, and CVE-2026-76418, rated 8.6, a Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker make the device reload. That is the second Cisco VPN zero-day since August. On the same day, KEV took two Ivanti Connect Secure entries, CVE-2026-118527 and CVE-2026-111357, the first of which can be chained with the second and with CVE-2026-104935, which is CISA's polite way of saying somebody has already built the chain and is using it.
Add the two that are being exploited without a KEV badge. Drupal told store owners that CVE-2026-118539, a missing-authorisation flaw in Commerce Core affecting versions 0.0.0 to 2.41 and 3.0.0 onward, is under attack and that they should go and audit their orders. And a WordPress Core remote code execution bug with no CVE identifier at all, affecting 4.7 through 7.1.3, drew nearly 63,000 attack attempts in twenty-four hours. A vulnerability with no number is ontologically inconvenient: your scanner cannot find it, your risk register cannot hold it, and the people scanning you do not require it to have one.
Underneath all of it, the PHP2Shell story keeps moving. CISA warned federal agencies to patch the Fragnesia Linux kernel privilege-escalation bug because attackers are chaining it with PHP2Shell in the wild; one firm counted roughly half a dozen exploitations and another found a well-targeted suspected Chinese campaign against US government-affiliated servers. Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected, the attacks root Palo Alto firewalls and fail against WordPress, and a week of testing found exploits have to be fitted to each target's exact PHP build — except on network appliances, where everyone runs the same build and one tuned exploit reaches the lot. Uniformity is a procurement virtue and an attacker's discount.
Why it mattersIf you run ASA or FTD, Connect Secure, GitLab, Drupal Commerce or WordPress, your weekend already has a slot booked in it; patch state, not patch policy, is what gets asked about on Monday.
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