CISA says it added CVE-2026-41709, an insufficient logging flaw in Broadcom's VMware ESX, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 28. The flaw requires admin access, and CISA lists a Nov. 11 federal deadline; it has not said who is exploiting it.
CISA says the bug could let a malicious actor with admin access perform certain operations without being logged.
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CISA says it added Linux kernel flaw CVE-2026-46300 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 28, with a federal deadline of Oct. 31 and forensic triage required. CISA says it can be chained with two PHP flaws to implant webshells and run commands as root.
Sony Network Communications, the wholly owned Sony Group company behind the So-net internet service provider, says a third party accessed its So-net member database on Oct 19 and that up to about 2.59 million member records leaked, including 443,495 from plala (S Course), the internet service used with NTT Docomo's Docomo Hikari fiber.
Microsoft published CVE-2026-62765 on Oct. 27, describing a type-confusion flaw in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that could allow remote code execution, rated Important with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5. Microsoft's advisory lists it as not exploited and not publicly disclosed. The advisory's fixed-build number conflicts with Edge's own release notes, so the exact patched version is unconfirmed.
CISA added CVE-2026-48356, an unrestricted file-upload flaw in Adobe Commerce and Magento, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct 27, citing evidence of active exploitation. Adobe patched the flaw in APSB26-73 on July 14; federal civilian agencies must remediate by Nov 10.
The Analytics Insights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress plugin is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting tracked as CVE-2026-111820 in versions through 6.3.12. Unauthenticated attackers can inject scripts that execute for any visitor to an affected page.
