CISA added CVE-2026-21962, an improper access control flaw in Oracle HTTP Server and the Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-08-24. Federal agencies have until 2026-08-27 to apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use.
It is unknown whether the vulnerability is known to be used in ransomware campaigns.
The three-day remediation deadline for federal systems signals that exploitation is widespread enough to warrant immediate prioritization under BOD 26-04 risk-based patching.
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IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 contain critical authentication bypass flaw CVE-2026-16823. The NVD rates it 9.1 and warns of remote exploitation without credentials.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 is affected by CVE-2026-93017, a high-severity flaw that lets attackers read every secret in every namespace. The 7.7 CVSS score reflects broad access granted through an unrestricted ClusterRole on the insights-operator-gather service account.
IBM has fixed 40 vulnerabilities in DataPower Gateway, seven of them rated critical at CVSS 9.3 to 9.8, including remote code execution bugs and an LDAP flaw that accepts empty passwords for admin access. IBM says to upgrade to 10.5.0.23, 10.6.0.11 or 11.0.0.3.
Cisco has released NX-OS hardening updates covering CVE-2026-76455, a group of improper access control issues (CWE-284) scored 9.8 critical. Cisco found the issues in an internal review and says they are not known to be exploited.
Cisco has released hardening updates for Cisco License On-Prem, formerly Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem), to fix CVE-2026-76482, a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10. The flaw stems from improper input verification and was identified during an internal security review.
