OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues
2026-03-07T19:24:10Z•86e41a44c103b805444a48584bf359e37f24078b48b2218105d23ac83f4246a6
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What happened
The Hacker News roundup highlights a surge of high-impact vulnerability disclosures, active exploitations, and increasing use of AI by both defenders and threat actors. Key items include OpenAI’s Codex Security preview that scanned 1.2M commits and flagged 10,561 high-severity issues; Anthropic finding 22 Firefox bugs (14 high); CISA adding multiple actively exploited flaws to its KEV catalog (including VMware Aria CVE-2026-22719 and Hikvision/Rockwell issue CVE-2017-7921); Cisco confirming active exploitation of CVE-2026-20122 in Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager; and a powerful iOS exploit kit (Coruna
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