Manufacturing security news

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. Details of the vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-42016 (CVSS score: 8.1) - An incorrect authorization

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Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers.

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Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report. Wiz saw the attacks between August 15 and September 8. JFrog had fixed both flaws before then, so only servers that had not been updated were open to them.

The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.

On 29 April 2026, a high local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and named "Copy Fail", was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability affects every mainstream Linux distributions shipping a kernel built since 2017. A public proof-of-concept exploit has been released. As of the date of this advisory, no distribution has shipped a fixed kernel package. The mainline fix was committed on 1 April 2026, but vendor updates are still pending across all major distributions. CERT-EU strongly recommends applying the interim mitigation immediately, prioritising Kubernetes nodes, and CI/CD runners exposed to untrusted workloads.

Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access

Serial Number: AV26-896 Date: September 8, 2026 As of September 8, 2026, Microsoft is affected by vulnerabilities in the following products: .NET 10.0 installed on Linux .NET 10.0 installed on Mac OS .NET 10.0 installed on Windows .NET 11.0 installed on Linux .NET 11.0 installed on Mac OS .NET 11.0 installed on Windows .NET 8.0 installed on Linux .NET 8.0 installed on Mac OS .NET 8.0 installed on Windows .NET 9.0 installed on Linux .NET 9.0 installed on Mac OS .NET 9.0 installed on Windows ASP.NET Core 10.0 ASP.NET Core 11.0 ASP.NET Core 8.0 ASP.NET Core 9.0 Azure AI Language Authoring Azure Arc SQL Server Extension Azure Cosmos DB Azure CycleCloud Azure HDInsight HEIF Image Extension HEVC Video Extensions HEVC Video Extensions for Licensed Applications HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.7.2 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8.1 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.1 Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Microsoft Access 2016 Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) Microsoft Authen