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Interview Invitation for Educational Research Muhammad Hassan Tanveer via dev (Mar 31)
Hello Everyone!

We are conducting a research study on how organizations handle the
aftermath of cybersecurity incidents and we would greatly value your
perspective. Our focus is on what happens after a security incident is
resolved. How do teams reflect on these events? How do organizations
learn from incidents?

Are you a cybersecurity practitioner? We would love to hear from you! We
invite you to participate in a ~45-minute online...

Re: GSoC 2026: Password Security Wizard - Optimizing the NSE Brute Library Adithya Shetty (Mar 13)
Ah, my mistake.

I completely missed that banner on the site.

Thanks for letting me know Gordon

[no subject] Juan jose Rodriguez (Mar 08)
Contraseña

GSoC 2026: Password Security Wizard - Optimizing the NSE Brute Library Adithya Shetty (Mar 02)
Hi Nmap Development Team and Fotis,

My name is Adithya, and I am a 4th-semester Computer Science student
specializing in Cybersecurity. I am writing to express my strong interest
in the "Password Security Wizard" project for GSoC 2026.

Over the past few days, I have cloned the repository, set up my build
environment, and have been digging into the nselib/brute.lua library and
several of the -brute.nse scripts (specifically focusing on...

Question about Nmap and GSoC 2026 Sweekar (Jan 29)
Hi Nmap developers,

I am a student contributor and have previously worked on Nmap. I am
preparing for Google Summer of Code 2026 and wanted to ask whether Nmap is
considering participating as a mentoring organization this year, or if
there are no plans at this time.

Thank you for your time and for maintaining such an important project.

Best regards,
Sweekar

PR #3277: Clean up and harden POP3 helper login functions Sweekar (Jan 23)
Hello Nmap Developers,
As suggested in CONTRIBUTION.md i am writing this mail to notify about my PR
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3277

This PR refactors and fixes the POP3 authentication helper functions used
by NSE scripts, including pop3-brute.nse.

Main changes:

-

Hardened SASL LOGIN handling
-

Improved SASL PLAIN and CRAM-MD5 logic
-

Corrected APOP handling and report missing OpenSSL support
-

Normalized...

HTTP2 cleartext service probe Harrison Neal (Dec 24)
Good day,

In instances where HTTP2 is used cleartext without TLS+ALPN (a.k.a., h2c,
prior knowledge), nmap does not appear to have a service probe.

The following is something really simple based on RFC7540, which covers the
initial client message and the server's initial SETTINGS frame. The match
regex below ignores the length (RFC says the server's initial SETTINGS
frame can be empty, nghttpd appears to provide a single entry for...

dev () nmap org judy Wallace (Dec 19)
dev () nmap org

Re: [Battery-svn] r39303 - Kalinux/nselib Trinidad JR Cristian (Nov 28)
Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device
Get Outlook for Android

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/32027e199368dad9508965aae8cd8de5b6ab5231?diff=unified#:~:text=static%20void,%7B

________________________________
From: Trinidad JR Cristian <Employment404 () outlook com>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2025 6:20:32 PM
To: dev () nmap org <dev () nmap org>
Subject: Re: [Battery-svn] r39303 - Kalinux/nselib...

Re: dev Digest, Vol 233, Issue 1 Trinidad JR Cristian (Nov 01)
Last Login: SAT NOV 01 2025 11:06:09 CDT

Authentication-Results: mail.ctmartinez5.ch; dkim=pass (Good 1024 bit
rsa-sha256 596) header.d=cert.org header.a=rsa-sha256; dkim=pass
(Good 1024 bit rsa-sha256 596) header.d=amazonses.com
header.a=rsa-sha256
Authentication-Results: mail.ctmartinez5.ch; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none)
header.from=cert.org
Authentication-Results: mail.outlook.ch;...

Fw: dev Digest, Vol 233, Issue 1 Trinidad JR Cristian (Oct 31)
JE6ar71cU61f: [CARTER[338NYROC14617]ROCHESTER] --Cristian A Trinidad

NET Wrapper for Npcap <- Package delivery for bothe itmes 1&2 .

1-["Lenss":"Eyes-drops","Battery":["Interface":"TjRQouCJ"(1737645151)

Zenmap Nmap @NeonNox Samsung 8 Galaxy kalinux 2&2

2-("KALI":"162.5 mm × 74.8 mm × 8.6...

GitHub PR #3214: Add compatibility fixes for various OSes + multiplatform autobuilds Jordan Ritter (Oct 30)
Just submitted https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/3214 — I think the contributing guidelines say to give an extra heads
up via email, so this is that email.

The PR adds compilation fixes for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, macOS, and Windows, against current master (on
GitHub, which I understand is synced read-only with SVN).

I got the sense you guys may not have broad OS coverage in the existing TravisCI setup — given all the problems...

RE: Nmap Zenmap version mismatch via Windows .exe installer EXT-Modrell, Anthony via dev (Oct 30)
Hello,

I was looking for an update. I see that the media has not changed via hash since we downloaded and found the mismatch.
Any update would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Tony

From: EXT-Modrell, Anthony
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 1:42 PM
To: 'dev () nmap org' <dev () nmap org>
Cc: Herren (US), Tracy J <tracy.j.herren () boeing com>; EXT-Baker, Mark A <mark.a.baker2 () boeing com>; EXT-Rivera,
Alexander R...

Re: .NET Wrapper for Npcap Daniel Miller (Oct 30)
Steve,

Npcap ought to work with any existing WinPcap wrapper, since the API is
backwards-compatible. I have not used any C# wrappers myself, though I am
aware of SharpPcap (https://github.com/dotpcap/sharppcap) as another.

Dan

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM Altaffer, Steven via dev <dev () nmap org>
wrote:

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Npcap Version 1.82 Released with VLAN Tagging and More Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Apr 28)
Dear Nmap Community,

In preparation for an imminent Nmap release (hopefully this week!), we have
released Version 1.82 of our Npcap Windows packet capture and transmission
driver. It builds upon the recent 1.81 release to add support for VLAN
tagging. This allows you to select for packets directed to a certain VLAN
or just inspect the VLAN headers on any packets received. It's especially
useful for Wireshark users. You can also now send...

Nmap 7.95 released: OS and service detection signatures galore! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (May 05)
Dear Nmap Community,

I just arrived in San Francisco for the RSA conference and am delighted to
announce our Nmap Version 7.95 release! I'm most excited that we finally
tackled our backlog of OS and service detection fingerprint submissions.
We're not talking about dozens or hundreds of them-we processed more than
6,500 fingerprints!

For OS detection, we added 336 signatures, bringing the new total to 6,036.
Additions include iOS 15...

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SEC Consult SA-20260401-0 :: Broken Access Control in Open WebUI SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Apr 02)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260401-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Broken Access Control
            product: Open WebUI
 vulnerable version: <v0.8.11
      fixed version: v0.8.11
CVE number: CVE-2026-34222
             impact: high
homepage:https://openwebui.com
              found: 2026-02-06...

SEC Consult SA-20260326-0 :: Local Privilege Escalation in Vienna Assistant (MacOS) - Vienna Symphonic Library SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Apr 02)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20260326-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Local Privilege Escalation
product: Vienna Assistant (MacOS) - Vienna Symphonic Library
 vulnerable version: 1.2.542
fixed version: -
CVE number: CVE-2026-24068
             impact: high
homepage:https://www.vsl.co.at/
         ...

Apple OHTTP Relay: 14 Third-Party Endpoints, 6 Countries, Zero User Visibility Joseph Goydish II via Fulldisclosure (Apr 02)
SUMMARY

Apple's Oblivious HTTP relay for Live Caller ID Lookup (iOS 18+) routes
traffic through 14 third-party endpoints across six countries. These include
an anonymous Delaware LLC sharing data with OpenAI, a Russian endpoint
(Yandex), and a Swiss GmbH whose privacy policy names "The Legal Entity to
be Confirmed" as its data controller. None of this is disclosed to users.

This is shared infrastructure. All devices using Live...

[KIS-2026-06] MetInfo CMS <= 8.1 (weixinreply.class.php) PHP Code Injection Vulnerability Egidio Romano (Apr 02)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
MetInfo CMS <= 8.1 (weixinreply.class.php) PHP Code Injection Vulnerability
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

[-] Software Link:

https://www.metinfo.cn

[-] Affected Versions:

Versions 7.9, 8.0, and 8.1.

[-] Vulnerability Description:

The vulnerable code is located into the...

[CVE-2026-33691] OWASP CRS whitespace padding bypass vulnerability cyber security (Apr 02)
A vulnerability was identified in OWASP CRS where whitespace padding
in filenames can bypass file upload extension checks, allowing uploads
of dangerous files such as .php, .phar, .jsp, and .jspx. This issue
has been assigned CVE‑2026‑33691.

Impact: Attackers may evade CRS protections and upload web shells
disguised with whitespace‑padded extensions. Exploitation is most
practical on Windows backends that normalize whitespace in filenames...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-10 Xcode 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-10 Xcode 26.4

Xcode 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126801.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

otool
Available for: macOS Tahoe 26.2 and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-9 Safari 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-9 Safari 26.4

Safari 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126800.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

WebKit
Available for: macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content
Security...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-8 visionOS 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-8 visionOS 26.4

visionOS 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126799.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: Apple Vision Pro (all models)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-7 watchOS 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-7 watchOS 26.4

watchOS 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126798.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-6 tvOS 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-6 tvOS 26.4

tvOS 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126797.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K (all models)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-5 macOS Sonoma 14.8.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-5 macOS Sonoma 14.8.5

macOS Sonoma 14.8.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126796.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: macOS Sonoma
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept network...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-4 macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-4 macOS Sequoia 15.7.5

macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126795.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: macOS Sequoia
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-3 macOS Tahoe 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-3 macOS Tahoe 26.4

macOS Tahoe 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126794.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: macOS Tahoe
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept network...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-2 iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-2 iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7

iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126793.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation
Impact: An attacker in...

APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-1 iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (Mar 28)
APPLE-SA-03-24-2026-1 iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126792.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

802.1X
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st...

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OpenAI Codex Security Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Mar 07)
https://openai.com/index/codex-security-now-in-research-preview/

As you might have noticed we've released Codex Security and if you have a
ChatGPT business or enterprise or edu or pro subscription (which is most of
y'all) then you have access ! Just go to chatgpt.com/codex/security and
hopefully it pulls up cleanly for you. If not, probably my fault in some
way.

If you do have access then I'd love it if you would:

1. Say what...

RE//verse, DistrictCon, an Anole Friend Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Feb 02)
Last month was DistrictCon, a great conference that I did not attend
because the sky decided to dump snow on Washington, DC. Anyone who has
spent more than ten minutes in that city knows this is how you cancel every
flight out of DCA and turn the roads into skating rinks filled with deeply
furious government contractors. Life is short, so I remained in Miami where
it was 80 degrees and everyone was pretending winter is a myth.

Today it is...

feeling the air Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jan 05)
For reasons I still don’t fully understand, Miami Beach has enormous
colonies of turkey vultures. You’ll see them circling over the city and the
interstates, perched like huge awkward toddlers on lampposts, or standing
motionless as a shadow in the strip of grass between the road and the blue
water of the bay. If you look up at almost any moment, there’s a column of
them somewhere overhead, wings spread wide, fingers splayed, feeling the...

Re: Defense ? Dean Pierce via Dailydave (Nov 16)
I like the idea of having a software supply chain that people can pay into
that basically funds a universal bug bounty system for anything that
matters.

You can put systems in place that utilize zero knowledge exploitability
proofs to automate bounty triage, so it doesn't even need to be run by a
central trusted entity. As the bounty markets stabilize, what you're left
with is a software ecosystem where anyone can build what they need...

Re: Defense ? Chris Anley via Dailydave (Nov 16)
(gingerly raises head above parapet)

Historically, “we’ve” moved the bar in defense.

- Everything is now in the cloud, accessible 24/7 via APIs whose keys are stored in plaintext alongside code, or via
preauthenticated sessions
- Everything has ~40 dependencies, each of which has ~40 dependencies, etc, which, combined with a published CVE rate
of 1 per 15 minutes (calendar year 2024), means that patching an enterprise before an...

Re: Defense ? Alfonso De Gregorio via Dailydave (Nov 16)
Imbalances in the skills and workforce are real. The gap remains hard
to bridge also in the presence of greater degrees of automation that
AI buys us, because, at this stage, we want humans to be in the loop –
and for good reasons – and, also, cause we are not going to grow the
skillset faster than the attack surface, I am afraid.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will take a bite
regardless: those imbalances are a byproduct of the...

Re: Defense ? Conan Dooley via Dailydave (Nov 16)
Reduce complexity, duplication, and scope in your infrastructure. Your
developers and infrastructure staff would need to agree on standardized
libraries, frameworks, etc, and you'd need skilled technical staff to
validate when people said doing something wasn't possible within that
scope, and make them accountable for making sure adding that level of
complexity led to business value that was greater than that overhead (vs,
say, just...

Re: Defense ? etojake--- via Dailydave (Nov 16)
The content of this message was lost. It was probably cross-posted to
multiple lists and previously handled on another list.

Defense ? Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Nov 15)
How would one actually move the actual bar in defense? A big part of me
thinks that you're just not going to patch your way out of the problem. But
the number of organizations that you can rely on to actually make a
difference seems pretty small? Like even converting every Linux binary to
rust would only make sense if you could find a team that could actually
maintain and support that code base, which I don't know that you could.

Like...

Offensive AI Con Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Oct 08)
So I just got back from "Offensive AI Conference" in San Diego and it was a
great event - for a first time conference it ran especially smoothly, the
attendees were an amazing crowd, and many of the talks were extremely
strong. There's something about a conference that is not recording the
talks that gets people to actually sit and listen to them via the magic of
FOMO, but also, when a conference is "invite only" then you...

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Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products CISA (Mar 28)
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CISA and NSA Release Enduring Security Framework Guidance on Identity and Access Management CISA (Mar 21)
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Re: Announce: OpenSSH 10.3 released Demi Marie Obenour (Apr 03)
Is it safe (from a shell injection perspective) to pass inputs that are
sanitized for character set, but otherwise untrusted? For instance,
is it sufficient to limit usernames to ^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]{0,31}$
and domain names to valid host names [1]?

Can one assume that in situations where entries come from an
untrusted source (such as AuthorizedKeysCommand), OpenSSH _does_
do such checking?

[1]: No more than 254 bytes (plus optional trailing...

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 Salvatore Bonaccorso (Apr 03)
Hi,

According to https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34714 the
assigner is MITRE CNA itself.

Regards,
Salvatore

Re: Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in AppArmor Salvatore Bonaccorso (Apr 03)
Hi,

[...]

[...]

To close the circle here: sudo has a own CVE for the issue addressed
above, it is CVE-2026-35535.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35535

Regards,
Salvatore

Re: Announce: OpenSSH 10.3 released Salvatore Bonaccorso (Apr 03)
Hi Agostino,

I think since yesterday there were CVE assigned actually by MITRE,
they should be:

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35414
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35385
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35386
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35387
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35388

Regards,
Salvatore

Re: Announce: OpenSSH 10.3 released Agostino Sarubbo (Apr 03)
Hello Damien,

thank you for bringing this to oss-security so that everyone is aware of it.

Regarding the security changes, we do not see any CVE assigned. Could you please clarify
your perspective on this? Are these changes considered simply hardening improvements,
or do they have a security impact that would warrant a CVE?

Thank you.
Agostino

Re: [libc musl] - Algorithmic complexity DoS in iconv GB18030 decoder Rich Felker (Apr 02)
The attached patch has now been tested to work. Compared to the
previous version above, it corrects one value in the table, an
erroneous += 0x10000 above, and missing logic for characters U+10000
and up.

Rich

From: Rich Felker <dalias () aerifal cx>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:00:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix pathological slowness & incorrect mappings in iconv
gb18030 decoder

in order to implement the "UTF" aspect of gb18030...

Re: [libc musl] - Algorithmic complexity DoS in iconv GB18030 decoder Rich Felker (Apr 02)
The above patch was a proposal for testing. It should mitigate the
extreme slowness for characters encoded in GB18030's UTF, but it does
not work correctly and has not been confirmed not to have other
problems. I will follow up with a correct patch.

Rich

[libc musl] - Algorithmic complexity DoS in iconv GB18030 decoder Jens Jarl Nestén Hansen-Nord (Apr 02)
==========================================
libc musl Security Advisory: April 2, 2026
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Description:
The GB18030 4-byte decoder in musl libc's iconv() implementation contains a gap-skipping loop that performs a full
linear scan of the gb18030126 lookup table (23,940 entries) on each iteration of an outer loop whose iteration count is
input-dependent. For 4-byte sequences whose linear index falls...

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 Solar Designer (Apr 02)
That's bad news. We really need to disable modelines by default. I see
the discussion in https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/19875 but I think
that's advanced users, it's not representative of the Vim userbase.
Someone who makes very basic use of Vim does not even know modelines
exist and would not comment in that PR, but those basic users are the
majority. The advanced users who know and need modelines can re-enable
them -...

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 Christian Brabandt (Apr 02)
It seems the community prefers a whitelist approach however. So this is
probably what it will be soon.

Thanks,
Christian

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 David A. Wheeler (Apr 02)
Yes, nomodeline, sorry for the error. You *can* say ":set" but it's
conventional to omit the colon prefix.

I did find this gem in vim ":help modeline":

If vim just has a weird display, instead of executing programs, I guess
it's arguable that this isn't "insecure by default". But this at least teeters close to it.
When people use a text editor, they're not trying to think
through trust boundary...

[ANNOUNCE] ATS is vulnerable to HTTP requests with body Masakazu Kitajo (Apr 02)
Description:
ATS is vulnerable to HTTP requests with body.

CVE:
CVE-2025-58136 - A simple legitimate POST request causes a crash
CVE-2025-65114 - Malformed chunked message body allows request smuggling

Reported By:
Masakazu Kitajo (CVE-2025-58136)
Katsutoshi Ikenoya (CVE-2025-65114)

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Version Affected:
ATS 9.0.0 to 9.2.12
ATS 10.0.0 to 10.1.1

Mitigation:
9.x users should upgrade to 9.1.13 or later...

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 Tianyu Chen (Apr 02)
Isn't it CVE-2026-34714? I saw it noted on
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-2gmj-rpqf-pxvh.

Best regards,
Tianyu Chen @ deepin

Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape affects Vim < 9.2.0272 Christian Brabandt (Apr 02)
Tianyu Chen schrieb am Donnerstag, den 02. April 2026:

Yes, but Github did not assign it. Someone else did and GH did barely
notify me of this already existing CVE.

Thanks,
Christian

Announce: OpenSSH 10.3 released Damien Miller (Apr 02)
OpenSSH 10.3 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and
includes sftp client and server support.

Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
continued support of the project, especially those who contributed
code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the
project. More...

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Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Tom Beecher via NANOG (Apr 04)
Intent Based Networking is the love child of a failed network engineer, and
an MBA.

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Shane Ronan via NANOG (Apr 04)
I can attest that a very large American ISP/Telco/Wireless Provider is
using intent based systems all over the place.

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Shane Ronan via NANOG (Apr 04)
I think this is a VERY important point to make. One team might be
responsible for VOIP, so they set their intent requirement, which ignores
any other intent requirements coming from other teams. The
duplication/conflict is VERY intentional.

Shane

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy William Herrin via NANOG (Apr 04)
Howdy,

How have you determined that the redundancies are unintentional
(i.e.bloat)? Networks are dynamic systems. You're looking at a
snapshot or snapshots.

Things break. This changes which rules apply at any given instant.

Actually, I'm curious if anyone in the ISP world is using intent-based
networking. I've read about the concept but it struck me as an easy
way to dig yourself a very deep hole. Networking at the ISP level is...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Andrew Kirch via NANOG (Apr 04)
It strikes me that what you are describing is a management/governance
problem, not a technical problem.

If your employer's governance program produces conflicting, impossible to
implement, or nonsensical KPIs, you can't fix that with technology.

I suggest referring to Simon Travaglia's excellent series of writings on
network operations for the correct solution to this governance problem.

To wit: the elevator doesn't have to...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Pedro Prado via NANOG (Apr 04)
My 2c...
Your examples sound like decisions made in different contexts - perhaps of
time, or focus.
The VoIP requirement was probably set first since this is fundamental for
it, and at a later time the overall latency requirement was set, but at a
broader level. Or perhaps it is known that the general latency requirement
isn't that "set in stone" and it's safer to keep a <25ms requirement at the
service level for VoIP...

RE: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Gary Sparkes via NANOG (Apr 04)
In my view, one or the other can be overridden, while the other can't.

For example, that 'general' latency requirement, while ridiculous, could theoretically be waived for services that are
located off-site or in a different geographic region. While the VOIP requirement is hard for service delivery.

Firewall rule interaction can also be a tricky space because behavior may not appear evident from what the rules say
'in...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy manwar--- via NANOG (Apr 04)
Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, and apologies if this isn’t the right forum for this kind of question.

To clarify: the data comes from an intent-based enterprise network, where the intents are high-level requirements
collected from a running production system.

By redundancy, I mean cases like:
- A general requirement (e.g., “latency < 20ms for all services”) alongside a weaker, service-specific one (e.g., “VoIP
latency <...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Tom Beecher via NANOG (Apr 04)
I also find it very difficult to believe that 95% of things were redundant
or duplicative, be it ACLs / BGP policies , or really anything. There are
absolutely cases, say with ACLs, that you apply less permissive filtering
at different network layers; however, this is usually an intentional design
choice, not a bug.

Conflicts: How often do you run into cases where multiple goals (which all

Again assuming you're talking about ACLs /...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Joe via NANOG (Apr 04)
I wonder about the nature of such inquiries these days, especially when
there are so many folks compiling this data for use in LLMs and the like.

Perhaps you might elaborate on the usage a bit more and how such a
collection of data (once you refine what it is your looking for) would be
of benefit to the audience your asking participation from, i.e. Publishing
your findings for all to use afterwards.

I agree with Saku, you're not likely to...

Re: Operational feedback on policy redundancy Saku Ytti via NANOG (Apr 04)
I'm skeptical of the data. What do you exactly mean?

This list largely deals with stateless IP routers, and I am assuming
this context.

What are the 'operational intents' you refer to? Are they ACL rules,
BGP policies? Because in either context, I don't believe 95% to be
redundant for a moment, so I must be confused and you're talking about
something entirely different.

You're not going to receive any input,...

Re: CHI-NOG-13 - Call for Presentations - May 28th, 2026 Tom Kacprzynski via NANOG (Apr 03)
Just a quick reminder that the CHI-NOG 13 call for presentations closes on
Monday, April 6th. We are looking for presentation abstract submissions.

CHI-NOG 13 is May 27-28, 2026 in Chicago. If you've been sitting on a talk
idea, now is the time :)

Submit here: https://chinog.org/chi-nog-13/abstract-submission

Thanks,
Tom Kacprzynski
CHI-NOG PC Chair

Operational feedback on policy redundancy manwar--- via NANOG (Apr 03)
Hello,

I am a PhD student currently looking at the long-term management of network policies and intents. In studying a
large-scale production dataset from a service provider, I found that over 95% of the operational intents were
semantically redundant (meaning they were completely shadowed or subsumed by broader, older rules).

I am trying to understand if this high level of policy bloat matches the actual experience of operators in the field:...

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Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/healthcare-ransomware-pay-sophos/

Healthcare organizations, already an attractive target for ransomware given
the highly sensitive data they hold, saw such attacks almost double between
2020 and 2021, according to a survey released this week by Sophos.

The outfit's team also found that while polled healthcare orgs are quite
likely to pay ransoms, they rarely get all of their data returned if they
do...

A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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SEATTLE — On the sidelines of a conference in Estonia on Wednesday, a
senior U.S. intelligence official told British outlet Sky News that the
U.S. is running offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine.

“My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defense and
the president, and so that’s what I do,” said...

Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this
year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new
research.

Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under
the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections"
detected in 2021, accounting for more than...

FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang
Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some
cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.

In a joint advisory [PDF] this week, the FBI, CISA and US Treasury
Department outlined technical details about how Karakurt operates, along
with actions to take,...

DOJ Seizes 3 Web Domains Used to Sell Stolen Data and DDoS Services Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of
three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information
and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire.

This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the
former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and
offered a...

Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state
interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft
Office to achieve code execution on affected systems.

"TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using
URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the
technique,"...

US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of
Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News.

In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how "hunt
forward" operations were allowing the United States to search out foreign
hackers and identify...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1, 000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder
has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020.

"Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand
out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence
of their attacks and the large collection of encrypted and obfuscated...

Hackers are Selling US University Credentials Online, FBI Says Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned US universities and colleges
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access circulating on cybercriminals forums.

The fear is that such data will be sold and subsequently used by malicious
actors to orchestrate attacks on other accounts owned by the same students,
in the hope...

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Interpol on Monday announced the arrest of three suspected global scammers
in Nigeria for using remote access trojans (RATs) such as Agent Tesla to
facilitate malware-enabled cyber fraud.

"The men are thought to have used the RAT to reroute financial
transactions, stealing confidential online connection details from
corporate organizations, including oil and gas...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in
hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's
malicious cyber intrusions.

That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the
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FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but
they "routinely" target security misconfigurations for initial access, so
the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its
peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today's heightened threat
environment.

CISA, the FBI and National...

Fifth of Businesses Say Cyber-Attack Nearly Broke Them Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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A fifth of US and European businesses have warned that a serious
cyber-attack nearly rendered them insolvent, with most (87%) viewing
compromise as a bigger threat than an economic downturn, according to
Hiscox.

The insurer polled over 5000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, France,
Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to compile its annual Hiscox
Cyber...

Hacker And Ransomware Designer Charged For Use And Sale Of Ransomware, And Profit Sharing Arrangements With Cybercriminals Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New
York, charging Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), also known as
“Nosophoros,” “Aesculapius” and “Nebuchadnezzar,” a citizen of France and
Venezuela who resides in Venezuela, with attempted...

State of Ransomware shows huge growth in threat and impacts Matthew Wheeler (May 04)
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Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware
experiences in its ‘State of Ransomware 2022’ report. This shows that 66
percent of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from
37 percent in 2020.

The average ransom paid by organizations that had data encrypted in their...

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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-04-02 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 02)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

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Details:
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coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-03-31 Research via Snort-sigs (Mar 31)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

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Details:
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emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Re: Error in registered TalosLightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24? Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-devel (Mar 29)
Following up on this,

The new ruleset released on 2026-03-26 also causes the same error. Although
the reference in load_ips.lua has been removed, there is now a reference to
3.1.25.0 in

policies/common/ruledirs.conf.lua

With the latest ruleset, that line needs to be commented or the sensor will
not start.

Once again I am requesting the signature release admins to let us know if
there is something missing in the registered ruleset (The...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-03-26 Research via Snort-sigs (Mar 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image,
malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Error in registered TalosLightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24? Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-devel (Mar 26)
Hi,

We are using registered ruleset for Snort. After downloading the latest
LightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24, our sensor failed to start up with
an error

ERROR: ips.rules:6 can't open ../../rules/3.1.25.0/includes.rules
ERROR: ips.states:6 can't open ../../rules/
3.1.25.0/rulestates-security-ips.states

Looking at the the file lightspd/policies/common/load_ips.lua in the
release, there is a reference to 3.1.25 (which was not...

Error in registered TalosLightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24? Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-sigs (Mar 24)
Hi,

We are using registered ruleset for Snort. After downloading the latest
LightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24, our sensor failed to start up with
an error

ERROR: ips.rules:6 can't open ../../rules/3.1.25.0/includes.rules
ERROR: ips.states:6 can't open ../../rules/
3.1.25.0/rulestates-security-ips.states

Looking at the the file lightspd/policies/common/load_ips.lua in the
release, there is a reference to 3.1.25 (which was not...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-03-24 Research via Snort-sigs (Mar 24)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image,
malware-cnc, malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-03-05 Research via Snort-sigs (Mar 05)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-03-03 Research via Snort-sigs (Mar 03)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image,
file-other, indicator-shellcode, malware-cnc, malware-other,
server-mail and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-26 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
file-other, os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to
provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-24 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 24)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-other and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-19 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 19)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-pdf,
malware-cnc, malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide
coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-17 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 17)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-other and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-12 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 12)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-other,
file-flash, file-pdf, os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule
sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2026-02-10 Research via Snort-sigs (Feb 10)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2026-21231:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Kernel that may lead to
an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with:
Snort 2: GID 1, SIDs 65895 through 65896,
Snort 3: GID 1, SID...