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CISA Adds Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-1340 to KEV — Federal Patch Deadline Today
CISA has added CVE-2026-1340, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue with a federal agency deadline of 11 April. The vulnerability chains with CVE-2026-1281 to enable full appliance takeover and has been actively exploited since January 2026. All organisations running Ivanti EPMM on-premises must patch immediately.
NIS2 Moves From Grace Period to Enforcement — Germany's BSI Registration Deadline Is Now
Eighteen months after the NIS2 transposition deadline, EU member states are moving from legislative implementation to active supervisory enforcement. Germany's BSI has set April 2026 as the registration deadline for essential and important entities under the national NIS2 implementation (NIS2UmsuCG). Organisations still treating NIS2 as a future requirement face immediate regulatory exposure as national competent authorities begin audit and penalty activity.
Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197: 13-Year-Old Jolokia API Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ's Jolokia management API allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands by invoking a management MBean. CVE-2026-34197 roots in a design flaw present since ActiveMQ 5.x and chains dangerously with CVE-2024-32114. Patches are available in ActiveMQ 6.2.3 and 5.19.4.
BlueHammer Windows LPE Zero-Day Gives Attackers SYSTEM Access — No Patch Available
A publicly disclosed zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Defender's signature-update mechanism allows any authenticated user to escalate to SYSTEM. Named BlueHammer by researchers at Cyderes, the flaw has a working public exploit and no Microsoft patch as of publication. Security teams should implement interim mitigations immediately.
CIRCIA Final Rule Expected May 2026: What Critical Infrastructure Operators Must Do Now
CISA is expected to publish the long-awaited CIRCIA final rule in May 2026, mandating 72-hour cyber incident reporting and 24-hour ransomware payment reporting for critical infrastructure sectors. With weeks remaining, organisations that have not started preparing face significant compliance and legal exposure when the rule takes effect.
CISA Supplemental Direction ED 26-03: How to Hunt for Compromise in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
CISA has issued supplemental hunt-and-hardening guidance for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN systems under Emergency Directive 26-03, providing defenders with specific indicators to look for in environments exposed to CVE-2026-20127 — a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass exploited since 2023. Organisations running Cisco SD-WAN infrastructure should treat this guidance as a mandatory compromise assessment checklist.
NSA's January 2027 PQC Deadline Is Nine Months Away — Enterprise Migration Is Now Mandatory
With NIST's post-quantum cryptography standards finalised and the NSA's CNSA 2.0 deadline requiring all new National Security System acquisitions to be quantum-resistant by January 2027, the migration window for enterprise and federal contractor environments is closing fast. Most organisations have yet to inventory their cryptographic assets, let alone begin migration.
AI-Powered Device Code Phishing Bypasses MFA at Hundreds of Organisations
A sophisticated phishing campaign is abusing the OAuth device authorisation flow to hijack Microsoft 365 access tokens while victims complete entirely genuine MFA challenges. Hundreds of organisations have been compromised. FIDO2 passkeys block this attack; push notifications, TOTP, and SMS codes do not. Organisations should block the device code grant in Conditional Access immediately.
DPRK's Contagious Interview Campaign Spreads 1,700+ Malicious Packages Across Five Ecosystems
North Korea's UNC1069 (BlueNoroff) threat group has expanded its Contagious Interview supply chain operation to five package registries — npm, PyPI, Go Modules, crates.io, and Packagist — publishing more than 1,700 malicious packages that deliver a cross-platform infostealer and RAT. The operation is the largest coordinated open-source supply chain attack attributed to a nation-state actor.
World Leaks Exposes 7.7TB of LAPD Records After City Attorney's Discovery Tool Breach
Extortion group World Leaks has published more than 337,000 sensitive LAPD files — including officer personnel records, Internal Affairs investigations, and witness medical information — after breaching a third-party legal discovery transfer tool used by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. The incident illustrates how legal and compliance workflows that touch sensitive data are increasingly targeted as a softer entry point than agency systems themselves.
Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2026-3197: SAML Auth Bypass Under Mass Exploitation by Nation-State Actors
A critical SAML authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative firewall access. CVE-2026-3197 chains with a command injection flaw to achieve root-level OS execution and is being exploited by at least three distinct threat actor clusters including a China-nexus nation-state group. CISA has added it to the KEV catalogue.
Secure Boot Certificates Expire June 2026 — Enterprise Action Window Is Now
Microsoft's 2011 Secure Boot signing certificates expire on 26 June 2026, with the Windows bootloader certificate following in October. Organisations that fail to apply firmware and OS updates before these deadlines lose the ability to receive boot-level security fixes and risk UEFI bootkit exposure. Microsoft has begun displaying warnings in Windows Security app in April 2026, but the update process requires OEM firmware coordination that takes weeks.
ShinyHunters Breach Anodot SaaS Integrator, Steal Snowflake Customer Data via Harvested Tokens
The ShinyHunters threat group breached Anodot, an AI analytics platform used to integrate with Snowflake cloud data warehouses, and stole authentication tokens that enabled downstream data theft from over a dozen Snowflake customer environments. The attack is a textbook fourth-party risk incident: the direct target was not the victim organisations' systems but a trusted third-party integration layer.
Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-3055 Actively Exploited — CISA Orders Patch by 2 April
A critical unauthenticated memory overread vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway is being actively exploited in the wild, with CISA adding it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. Appliances configured as SAML Identity Providers are leaking sensitive memory contents including session tokens via a crafted SAML request.
DPRK-Linked Hackers Steal $285 Million from Drift Protocol in Six-Month Social Engineering Operation
North Korean threat actors attributed to UNC4736 (Citrine Sleet/AppleJeus) stole $285 million from Solana-based Drift Protocol after a six-month infiltration campaign combining social engineering of multisig signers with a novel durable nonce pre-signing technique. The incident reveals social engineering tactics directly transferable to enterprise environments.
Fortinet FortiClient EMS Zero-Day CVE-2026-35616 Actively Exploited — Apply Emergency Hotfix Now
A critical pre-authentication API bypass in Fortinet FortiClient EMS (CVSS 9.1) is being actively exploited in the wild, with CISA adding the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 6 April. Organisations running FortiClient EMS 7.4.5 or 7.4.6 must apply the emergency hotfix immediately — FCEB agencies faced a remediation deadline of 9 April.
Iranian-Affiliated Hackers Target US Water, Energy and Government Facilities via Internet-Exposed PLCs
A joint advisory from CISA, FBI, NSA, and the Department of Energy warns that Iranian-affiliated APT actors have been compromising internet-facing programmable logic controllers at water utilities, energy facilities and local government sites since at least March 2026. Operators should treat any internet-exposed OT device as potentially compromised and implement immediate network isolation.
Progress ShareFile Pre-Auth RCE Chain Puts 30,000 Exposed Servers at Risk — Patch to 5.12.4
Researchers at watchTowr Labs have disclosed a two-vulnerability chain in Progress ShareFile Storage Zones Controller that enables unauthenticated remote code execution via webshell upload. Approximately 30,000 Storage Zone Controller instances are internet-exposed and remain at risk if not patched to version 5.12.4, which was released on 10 March 2026 before full public disclosure of the attack path.
Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Infrastructure Compromised — Backdoored Plugin Pushed to 800,000 Sites
Attackers breached Nextend's update servers and distributed a fully weaponised backdoor through the official Smart Slider 3 Pro update channel, affecting WordPress and Joomla sites that auto-updated between 7–8 April 2026. The compromised version 3.5.1.35 creates rogue admin accounts, drops persistent remote access tools, and exfiltrates credentials — all delivered through the trusted plugin update mechanism.
April Windows Update Enforces AES-Only Kerberos — RC4 Fallback Blocked Across Active Directory
Microsoft's April 2026 cumulative update moves Windows domain controllers into AES-only Kerberos enforcement mode, permanently blocking RC4-HMAC as an authentication fallback under CVE-2026-20833. Organisations with legacy service accounts or unmanaged devices that have not set the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute will begin seeing Kerberos authentication failures when the update is deployed.
ChipSoft Ransomware Attack Takes Down Patient Records Across 80% of Dutch Hospitals
Dutch healthcare IT vendor ChipSoft, whose HiX electronic patient record system is used by approximately 80% of hospitals in the Netherlands, was struck by a ransomware attack on 7 April. Eleven hospitals have disconnected from ChipSoft systems and reverted to emergency paper procedures. ChipSoft has confirmed a 'data incident' with possible unauthorised access to patient records, and Z-CERT has advised all connected healthcare institutions to disconnect VPN links to the vendor.
Storm-1175 Deploys Medusa Ransomware Within 24 Hours Using Zero-Day Exploits
Microsoft has identified Storm-1175, a China-linked financially motivated threat group, as the affiliate behind a surge in Medusa ransomware deployments exploiting zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems. The group is exploiting vulnerabilities within days — sometimes within 24 hours — of public disclosure, with particular focus on healthcare, education, and finance sectors in the US, UK, and Australia.
CVSS 10.0 Flowise RCE Actively Exploited Across 12,000 Exposed Instances
CVE-2025-59528, a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in the Flowise AI workflow platform, is being actively exploited in the wild. Over 12,000 internet-exposed instances remain unpatched, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript on host machines and extract API keys, credentials, and configuration secrets.
Anubis Ransomware Hits Signature Healthcare, Brockton Hospital Diverts Ambulances
A ransomware attack on Signature Healthcare's Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts forced the facility to divert ambulances to neighbouring hospitals and cancel chemotherapy treatments. The Anubis ransomware group claimed responsibility on April 9, marking another significant attack on US healthcare infrastructure at a time when the sector remains one of the most targeted by ransomware operators.
Handala Ransomware Surges to 23 Victims in March — Geopolitically-Motivated Wiper Threat Expands Beyond Israel
Handala ransomware claimed 23 victims in March 2026 — the group's most active month, accounting for more than half of its total 2026 activity to date. While predominantly targeting Israeli organisations with suspected IRGC ties, Handala has begun extending its reach into European financial services, healthcare, and utilities. The group deploys wiper functionality alongside ransomware, meaning recovery from an attack is frequently impossible even without a ransom payment.
Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Deploy BYOVD Technique to Disable 300+ EDR Tools Before Encryption
Cisco Talos and Trend Micro have documented that Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations are now using the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique to systematically disable endpoint detection and response software before deploying ransomware payloads. The technique exploits a legitimate but outdated signed kernel driver to terminate over 300 EDR products from virtually every security vendor — including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Carbon Black.
Linux Kernel AP VLAN Flaw CVE-2026-31394 Allows Privilege Escalation in Virtualised and Cloud Environments
CVE-2026-31394 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AP VLAN (access point virtual LAN) network driver. Highlighted in Microsoft's Windows Update security reference guide and tracked by multiple Linux distributions, the flaw allows a local user with network namespace access to escalate privileges. Virtual machine hosts, Kubernetes nodes, and container infrastructure are the highest-risk deployment contexts.
March 2026 Patch Cycle: The Governance and Risk Metrics That CISOs Should Be Reporting
March 2026 has been an unusually demanding patch cycle — 83 Microsoft CVEs, three new CISA KEV additions across F5, Citrix, and Active Directory, and concurrent exploitable vulnerabilities across Linux, PAN-OS, and Dell hardware. CISOs face board-level questions about patching velocity and exposure windows. This analysis provides the governance framework and risk metrics to answer those questions accurately.
Windows Kerberos Security Feature Bypass CVE-2026-24297 — Race Condition Enables Unauthenticated Network Attack
CVE-2026-24297 is a security feature bypass in the Windows Kerberos implementation caused by a race condition that can be triggered remotely without credentials or user interaction. Patched in the March 2026 Patch Tuesday, the vulnerability allows an attacker with network access to a Kerberos-speaking service to bypass security validation in the authentication flow. No active exploitation has been confirmed but the attack vector requires no credentials, increasing urgency.
PAN-OS GlobalProtect Denial-of-Service CVE-2026-0227 — PoC Published, Firewalls Risk Forced Maintenance Mode
A proof-of-concept exploit has been published for CVE-2026-0227, a denial-of-service vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS affecting GlobalProtect gateways and portals. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the firewall into a mandatory maintenance mode by sending malformed requests to the GlobalProtect interface. Prisma Access deployments are also affected. Palo Alto has released patches; the PoC significantly elevates exploitation risk.
Citrix CVE-2026-3055 Confirmed Exploited — CISA KEV Addition Triggers Mandatory Patch Deadline
CISA added CVE-2026-3055 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 30 March, confirming active exploitation of the critical Citrix NetScaler memory overread vulnerability disclosed the previous week. NetScaler appliances configured as SAML Identity Providers are leaking session tokens from memory, allowing attackers to impersonate users without credentials. Organisations must patch immediately.
Dell iDRAC Service Module CVE-2026-23856 Allows Local Privilege Escalation on PowerEdge Servers
Dell has patched CVE-2026-23856, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the iDRAC Service Module (iSM) shipped with PowerEdge servers. A local attacker with standard user privileges can exploit improper access controls in the iSM — which runs with elevated system privileges to communicate with the hardware management interface — to elevate to SYSTEM or root. Updated iSM packages are available for both Windows and Linux.
Apple macOS CoreMedia Out-of-Bounds Write RCE Disclosed — Remote Exploitation via Malicious Media Files
Zero Day Initiative researchers have disclosed ZDI-26-230, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Apple macOS CoreMedia framework that could allow remote code execution when a user processes a specially crafted media file. A companion vulnerability ZDI-26-231 discloses a separate macOS information disclosure flaw. Both were disclosed on 30 March 2026 following Apple's 120-day coordinated disclosure window.
March 2026 Brought 83 Patch Tuesday CVEs and Three CISA KEV Additions — How to Prioritise
March 2026's Patch Tuesday addressed 83 vulnerabilities including three critical Office RCEs, an Active Directory privilege escalation now in CISA's KEV catalogue, and a Kerberos security feature bypass. Add three separate CISA KEV additions throughout the month — F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, and Active Directory — and security teams are managing a substantial patching backlog entering April. This analysis cuts through the volume to identify where to focus.
Active Directory Privilege Escalation CVE-2026-25177 Added to CISA KEV — Domain Admin Risk via SPN Abuse
CVE-2026-25177, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Active Directory Domain Services patched in March's Patch Tuesday, has been added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. An authenticated attacker with low-privileged domain credentials can exploit improper SPN and UPN name validation to escalate to domain administrator level. The KEV addition confirms in-the-wild exploitation approximately three weeks after patching was available.
Qilin Ransomware Posts Record 131 Victims in March — Third Consecutive Month Above 100
Qilin ransomware posted 131 confirmed victims in March 2026, its highest monthly total since emerging as a major ransomware-as-a-service operation. This marks three consecutive months above 100 victims — a sustained tempo that no tracked ransomware group has previously achieved. Healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services bear the heaviest burden, with the US accounting for half of all March ransomware victims across all groups.
CISA Publishes Dual ICS Advisories Covering Critical Flaws in Rockwell and Siemens OT Products
CISA released two industrial control system advisories on 31 March — ICSA-26-090-01 and ICSA-26-090-02 — covering critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix and Siemens SIMATIC S7 products. The advisories follow a pattern of stepped-up CISA ICS disclosure activity in March and arrive against a backdrop of active Iranian-affiliated targeting of operational technology environments.
F5 BIG-IP APM Vulnerability Reclassified as Critical RCE — CISA Mandates Three-Day Patch Window
A vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager initially classed as denial-of-service has been reclassified as critical remote code execution with CVSS 9.8 after active exploitation was confirmed. CISA added CVE-2025-53521 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 27 March and set a three-day patch deadline for federal agencies. All organisations running BIG-IP APM should treat this as an emergency.
Langflow RCE CVE-2026-33017 Exploited Within 20 Hours, Added to CISA KEV
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Langflow AI pipeline builder was exploited in the wild within 20 hours of disclosure, with attackers harvesting API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS from compromised instances. CISA added CVE-2026-33017 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 26 March, making patching mandatory for US federal agencies.
TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM on PyPI — AI Gateway Package With 3 Million Daily Downloads Compromised
The LiteLLM Python package — a widely-deployed AI gateway library with three million daily downloads — was backdoored on PyPI on 24 March by threat actor TeamPCP. Malicious versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 deployed a three-stage payload stealing cloud credentials, Kubernetes secrets, and CI/CD tokens from any system that installed the package during a 40-minute window.
Ubiquiti UniFi CVSS 10 Path Traversal CVE-2026-22557 Enables Full Account Takeover
Ubiquiti disclosed a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability in the UniFi Network Application that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the underlying OS and take over controller accounts with no credentials required. Censys identified approximately 87,000 internet-exposed UniFi endpoints at time of disclosure. The vulnerability is frequently chained with a companion NoSQL injection flaw for full administrative access.
NIST Updates DNS Security Guidance SP 800-81-3 — What Changed and Why It Matters Now
NIST released an updated edition of Special Publication 800-81, its foundational guidance on securing the Domain Name System, as DNS-based attacks and abuse techniques have evolved significantly since the previous version. The new SP 800-81-3 expands coverage of DNS-over-HTTPS, DNSSEC deployment best practices, DNS-based threat detection, and resilience against cache poisoning variants. Security teams should use this revision to audit current DNS architecture against current recommendations.
Cyberattack Hits European Commission Europa Web Platform — Data Taken From Hosted Websites
The European Commission confirmed on 27 March that a cyberattack struck the cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa web platform on 24 March 2026, with early forensic findings indicating data was exfiltrated from affected websites. The Commission operates hundreds of websites across the europa.eu domain hosting EU policy documents, consultation portals, and public databases. The incident is under investigation.
MongoBleed CVE-2025-14847: 87,000 Exposed MongoDB Instances Under Active Attack, Memory Leaking Credentials
CVE-2025-14847, named MongoBleed, is an unauthenticated memory disclosure vulnerability in MongoDB Server that allows attackers to read uninitialized heap memory from any internet-exposed instance. With 87,000 potentially vulnerable deployments globally and CISA KEV inclusion confirmed, active exploitation campaigns are targeting MongoDB instances to extract credentials, API keys, and sensitive data cached in server memory. The fix has been available since December 2025.
German Police Physically Visit Companies to Warn of Critical PTC Windchill RCE — No Patch Available
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM — industrial PLM software used across manufacturing, aerospace, and defence — prompted German federal and state police to physically dispatch officers to affected companies on the weekend of 27 March. No patch was available at time of the emergency response. PTC has provided a temporary workaround via Apache/IIS rule modification while developing a permanent fix.
Qilin Claims ASB Saarland Attack — 72 GB Stolen From German Humanitarian Organisation
Qilin ransomware claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against ASB Saarland, a German humanitarian and social services organisation, alleging theft of 72 GB of data including employee records, applicant data, health-related information, and client data. The attack continues Qilin's record-breaking March 2026 activity, during which the group claimed 131 victims — their highest monthly total — driven by wide deployment of BYOVD techniques to defeat endpoint detection.
Interlock Ransomware Exploited Cisco FMC Zero-Day for 36 Days Before Patch — Root Access on Enterprise Firewalls
Cisco's Firepower Management Center (FMC) contains a CVSS 10.0 deserialization vulnerability that Interlock ransomware was exploiting as a zero-day for 36 days before Cisco disclosed or patched it. CVE-2026-20131 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code as root on any internet-exposed FMC appliance. Cisco patched the flaw on 4 March 2026, but unpatched appliances remain under active ransomware targeting.
UAC-0255 Impersonates CERT-UA to Target Ukrainian Government, Healthcare, and Finance
Russian-linked threat actor UAC-0255 launched a targeted phishing campaign on 26–27 March posing as CERT-UA, Ukraine's national computer emergency response team, to deliver malware to state organisations, medical centres, financial institutions, and software development companies. The campaign uses CERT-UA brand authority to lower recipient suspicion of archive attachments containing remote access implants.
ShinyHunters Claims Infinite Campus Breach — 11 Million Student Records at Risk
Infinite Campus, the K-12 student information system used by over 3,200 school districts across 46 US states, has warned customers of a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen data via a Salesforce ticketing system compromise on 18 March. The company confirmed the attack lasted 38 minutes and primarily exposed school staff contact details, asserting no student database access occurred — but the threat actor's extortion deadline has passed without resolution.
React2Shell CVE-2025-55182: China-Nexus Groups Exploit Max-Severity Next.js Flaw Across 30+ Organisations
CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell), a maximum-severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components and Next.js, is being actively exploited by China-state-affiliated threat groups and financially motivated actors simultaneously. Palo Alto Networks has confirmed over 30 organisations breached and 77,000 internet-exposed vulnerable instances, with attackers systematically harvesting AWS credentials, database connection strings, and SSH keys from compromised web infrastructure.
Craft CMS CVSS 10 Code Injection CVE-2025-32432 Added to CISA KEV
CISA added CVE-2025-32432, a maximum-severity code injection vulnerability in Craft CMS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 20 March 2026. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on any publicly accessible Craft CMS installation. Exploitation has been ongoing since at least February 2025 and the Mimo threat actor has been actively using it to deploy cryptocurrency miners and residential proxy malware.
Trivy Security Scanner Hijacked — 75 GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Credential Stealer
The widely-used Aqua Security Trivy vulnerability scanner was compromised in a supply chain attack that replaced 75 version tags in the official trivy-action and setup-trivy GitHub Actions with credential-stealing malware. Threat actor TeamPCP leveraged non-atomic secret rotation to retain access after an initial February compromise, launching a second attack wave on 19 March. Any CI/CD pipeline that ran trivy-action or setup-trivy during the compromise window may have had cloud credentials, API tokens, and SSH keys exfiltrated.
DarkSword Apple Exploit Chain Adds Three CVEs to CISA KEV — Federal Deadline April 3
CISA has added three vulnerabilities from the DarkSword iOS/macOS exploit chain to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, mandating federal agencies patch all Apple devices by 3 April. DarkSword is a multi-stage attack framework linking six chained vulnerabilities to achieve full kernel compromise across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — with no user interaction required beyond visiting a malicious webpage.
Ivanti EPM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-1603 Exploited — Federal Patch Deadline Today
CISA added CVE-2026-1603, an authentication bypass in Ivanti Endpoint Manager, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 9 March with a federal agency patch deadline of 23 March. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication entirely and steal Domain Administrator password hashes and service account credentials from EPM's credential vault.
VMware Aria Operations CVE-2026-22719 — CISA KEV With Federal Deadline Tomorrow
CISA has added CVE-2026-22719, a command injection vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue with a federal agency patch deadline of 24 March. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the management infrastructure and was patched by Broadcom in February — but active exploitation has been confirmed before many organisations applied the fix.