What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface
2026-05-15T13:24:32Z•a89803a5c849e064363b5a4cc9e4bac862ea4cc7373193ecb8d86a865a99ef44
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What happened
Multiple high-impact and actively exploited vulnerabilities and supply-chain incidents were reported across enterprise infrastructure this week. Notable items include a critical Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Controller authentication bypass (CVE-2026-20182, CVSS 10.0) added to CISA's KEV, an Exchange Server XSS/spoofing flaw under active exploitation (CVE-2026-42897, CVSS 8.1), an 18‑year‑old NGINX rewrite module RCE (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS 9.2), a Linux kernel local privilege escalation variant Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300, CVSS 7.8), and a rapidly targeted PraisonAI auth bypass (CVE-2026-44338). In-paral
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- 2026-05-15T13:24:32Z
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- Yes
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