Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software

2026-05-23T13:24:08Z780aa39881345727e7f0f03bd3dee478af19b95953edc433450b7c391dea8a96
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What happened

A collection of high-impact security news: Anthropic’s Project Glasswing reportedly discovered over 10,000 high/critical flaws across widely used software. Multiple maximum- and high-severity vulnerabilities are being actively exploited or added to CISA’s KEV, including CVE-2026-48172 (LiteSpeed cPanel plugin, CVSS 10.0) and CVE-2026-20223 (Cisco Secure Workload, CVSS 10.0). Drupal Core SQL injection CVE-2026-9082 has active exploitation and KEV listing. Microsoft disclosed actively exploited Defender vulnerability CVE-2026-41091 (privilege escalation) and released mitigation for BitLocker BYP

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2026-05-23T13:24:08Z
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