Cutting Through the php2shell Noise On October 20, details of php2shell, two pre-auth RCE vulnerabilities in the PHP core discovered by Calif (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), leaked ahead of…
Last week was one for the Internet security history books. First, eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised, creating the possibility of forged certificates that could be used to…
On October 21, 2026, the PHP project disclosed two critical memory-corruption vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Both are fixed in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and…
SOCRadar Threat Research Unit identified an open directory on 96.126.130.81 that exposed the working files of an operator who ran an extortion campaign against Japanese real estate websites and then…
Posted by jose on Oct 27 CVE-2026-109618: Pointer underflow in PHP's CGI SAPI enables unauthenticated remote code execution. Affected: ALL PHP versions 5.x through 8.4.26 with cgi.fix_pathinfo=1…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
Posted by Peter Wolanin on Oct 26 The PPA we use https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php had a PHP 5.6 back port the same day. Have you compared your patch to other patches? Peter
Learn how to use Tenable solutions to find vulnerable PHP versions, prioritize remediation, and patch the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) faster. Key…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 26th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japanese cloud hosting provider Onamae Desktop…
Here's the lowdown on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little more than two minutes
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog and updated the PHP Alert, Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching: CVE-2026-109618 –…
Cyfirma links PHP2Shell scans of 216 vulnerable hosts to a suspected North Korean campaign using AI to rank public exploits. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical…
Two critical RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), collectively tracked as PHP2Shell, have been successfully exploited in the wild.
Posted by Demi Marie Obenour on Oct 25 In light of the size of the upstream patch, would it be better to handle out of memory by crashing the process instead?
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618…
Posted by Roman Kuligin on Oct 24 Hello, I have developed a backported .patch for EOL versions of PHP (specifically PHP 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6) to mitigate the critical PHP2Shell Out-of-Memory (OOM)…
PHP warns of a new, unlikely code execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, and advises disabling session upload progress until a fix is released. PHP has warned of a new code execution vulnerability, tracked…
PHP2Shell attacks have surged into the millions, but no successful exploitation is confirmed. Patch it immediately. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities…
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it…