Whole-of-state defense: How SLED agencies can secure critical infrastructure in the AI era

2026-10-28T08:52:11Z•2a884429942c33ccd40ad3a698c58cd6ffd9d4c05639532f8f128d9056bea9b1
CVE-2026-109618CVE-2026-109619CVE-2026-111497.NETBrotliBrotli2ShellBunCISA KEVEnvoy ProxyIstioNode.jsPHPPHP2ShellSLEDactive exploitationcritical infrastructureout-of-bounds writepublic PoCremote code executionshadow AIunauthenticated attack

What happened

Tenable reports active exploitation and critical risk from two unauthenticated PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities (PHP2Shell) and a critical out-of-bounds write in Google Brotli (Brotli2Shell). CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619, and CVE-2026-111497 have public exploitation evidence or proof-of-concept code, and all were added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Affected software includes PHP deployments, Windows PHP builds, Node.js, .NET, Bun, Envoy Proxy, Istio, Python HTTP clients, and other software embedding Brotli. Immediate asset inventory, patching, service restarts

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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2026-10-28T08:52:11Z
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