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A Fedora contributor account recently came under scrutiny for apparently AI-generated activity that disrupted the project's bug tracker. . Questionable Bugzilla comments, flawed patches, and improperly closed or reassigned bugs forced maintainers to spend time cleaning up the fallout. There is no evidence that malware was deployed or a backdoor reached production, but the incident exposed a different problem. Open-source projects can be disrupted without compromising a single line of code....
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Attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Langflow , an open-source platform used to build and run AI workflows. . The flaw turns a file upload into a filesystem write, allowing a user-controlled file to escape the application's intended upload directory and land in locations Langflow was never supposed to touch. The vulnerable upload endpoint permits path traversal through crafted filenames. From there, the impact depends heavily on how the platform is deployed. A...
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With npm v12 , dependency preinstall, install, and postinstall scripts will no longer execute automatically during package installation. Script execution will require explicit approval through new controls such as npm approve-scripts, with the change expected to arrive in July 2026. . The announcement targets a part of the software supply chain that has repeatedly appeared in package registry abuse, credential theft, and CI/CD compromise investigations. A single npm install could trigger code...
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Security Vulnerabilities Price Tag%201security advisory zero-day

CISA added CVE-2026-11645 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after Google confirmed active exploitation of the flaw. The bug sits in V8, the JavaScript engine behind Chrome and Chromium. . That's where this gets more interesting. Most coverage will focus on Chrome because that's where the patch landed. But the affected component is V8. Chromium relies on it. Electron relies on it. Plenty of desktop software Linux users interact with every day relies on it too, often without much...
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For years, IPv4 was the only proxy type that really mattered for anyone running automation off a Linux box. IPv6 was the protocol everyone said they’d migrate to, but almost nobody actually did. In 2026, that’s finally starting to shift. . The problem is that most admins stick with IPv4 out of habit. They know it; it’s what their tooling defaults to, and they don’t see a reason to change. Some are overpaying for addresses they don’t need. Others would quietly break their scrapers, scripts, or...
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SSH Users Exposed: Readline SUID Logic Bug Leads To File Info Leak

I discovered a logic bug in the readline dependency partially reveals file information when parsing the file specified in the INPUTRC environment variable. This could allow attackers to move laterally on a box where sshd is running, a given user is able to login, and the user’s private key is stored in a known location ( /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa ). . This bug was reported and patched back in February 2022, and chfn isn’t typically provided by util-linux anyway, so your boxen are probably fine. I’m writing about this because the exploit is amusing, as it’s made possible due to a happy coincidence of the readline configuration file parsing functions marrying up well to the format of SSH keys—explained further in this post. I was recently enticed by SUID bugs after fawning over the Qualys sudo bug a while back. As I was musing through The Art of Software Security Assessment —vol. 2 wen?— I was spurred into looking at environment variables as an attack surface. With a couple of hours to kill, I threw an interposing library into /etc/ld.so.preload to log getenv calls. The link for this article located at Security Boulevard is no longer available. . Uncover the readline SUID vulnerability that could expose sensitive SSH file details. Investigate the potential consequences and strategies for prevention.. Readline Exploit, File Information Leak, SSH Security, Logic Bug, SUID Vulnerabilities. . Brittany Day

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