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Actively Exploited Edge Appliances Dominate; Six KEV, Many Unpatched

Sep 21 - Sep 28, 2026
Total CVEs
2965
Critical + High
1265
KEV
6
Public Exploits
393

Executive Summary

Overview

This week logged 2965 vulnerabilities, including 239 critical and 1026 high-severity issues, with 6 confirmed on CISA's KEV list and 393 carrying public exploit code. Actively exploited flaws concentrate in internet-facing infrastructure—Citrix NetScaler, Check Point management, F5 BIG-IP, and Arista VeloCloud—several with no vendor patch identified. With 459 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities still unpatched, exposure remains elevated and prioritized remediation of exploited edge devices is urgent.

Critical Threats

  • CVE-2026-88771 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.5) — Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway unauthenticated remote command execution. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available. Vendor-released patch: 14.1-73.37 / 13.1-64.23 (including FIPS and NDcPP builds). Unauthenticated remote attackers.
  • CVE-2026-88772 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.5) — Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway unauthenticated remote code execution or denial of service affecting builds prior to 14.1-73.37 and 13.1-64.23 (including FIPS and NDcPP builds). Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available; vendor-released patch: 14.1-73.37.
  • CVE-2026-93616 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.8) — Check Point Quantum Security Management / Multi Domain Security Management unauthenticated remote code execution via directory traversal combined with malicious file upload to the management server file-upload interface. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified.
  • CVE-2026-94127 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.3) — F5 BIG-IP remote code execution via heap-based buffer overflow in the data plane on virtual servers configured with both an APM access policy and an OAuth profile. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified. Unauthenticated remote attackers.
  • CVE-2026-93952 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.5) — Arista Networks VeloCloud Orchestrator (on-prem) unauthenticated remote access to privileged internal functionality, potentially compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the orchestrator and managed data. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified.
  • CVE-2026-87902 (HIGH, CVSS 8.1) — WordPress core unauthenticated remote code execution via get_page_template() local file inclusion outside active theme directories; requires specific server and active-theme preconditions. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); public exploit code available; vendor-released patch available.
  • CVE-2026-100382 (CRITICAL, CVSS 10.0) — MediaWiki ExternalData extension (PHP) OS command injection allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary operating-system commands on the wiki server. Public exploit code available; vendor-released patch: 3.7.
  • CVE-2026-97359 (CRITICAL, CVSS 10.0) — Rejetto HFS2 (HTTP File Server) unauthenticated remote code execution via server-side template injection in multipart upload filenames, allowing arbitrary command execution on the host without credentials. Public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified.

Threat Landscape

Most-affected vendors: Linux (642), WordPress (266), Red Hat (126), IBM (103), Apache (60).

Most common attack techniques: Information Disclosure (901), Authentication Bypass (378), Denial Of Service (317), XSS (258), RCE (226).

Patch coverage: 2030 of 2965 CVEs have a patch; 459 Critical/High remain unpatched.

Key Trends

  • Volume is 35% down week-over-week (4577 → 2965 CVEs).
  • 6 CVEs are in CISA's KEV catalog.
  • 393 CVEs have public exploit code.

Top 8 Priority CVEs

164
CVE-2026-88771 CRITICAL KEV POC

Unauthenticated command execution in Citrix NetScaler ADC (before 14.1-73.37, before 13.1-64.23, and the corresponding FIPS and NDcPP builds) and NetScaler Gateway (before 14.1-73.37 and before 13.1-64.23) lets a network-reachable attacker with no credentials and no user interaction run arbitrary commands on the appliance. Both our assessed CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) and the vendor's CVSS 4.0 score of 9.5 agree on high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, with the CVSS 4.0 AT:P flag indicating that a specific attack precondition must hold before the flawed input-validation path is reachable. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but this is a genuine top-priority vulnerability rather than a high-CVSS/low-real-risk case, because the only other barrier is having a vulnerable, network-exposed ADC or Gateway instance, and exposure is highest where the management or VPN virtual server is internet-facing.

164
CVE-2026-88772 CRITICAL KEV POC

Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments running builds prior to 14.1-73.37 or 13.1-64.23 (including the corresponding FIPS and NDcPP builds 14.1-73.37 FIPS and 13.1.37.279 FIPS/NDcPP) can be driven by an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a denial-of-service condition. Per the available CVSS 4.0 vector the attack is network-reachable with no privileges or user interaction required, but Attack Complexity is High, meaning the attacker must first satisfy a specific, non-default precondition or timing/state condition rather than issuing a single trivial request. The vendor assigns a 9.5 base score with high impact to both the vulnerable appliance and subsequent systems; no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) and no public exploit code were identified at time of analysis, and the underlying weakness class was not disclosed (CWE: N/A).

126
CVE-2026-93616 CRITICAL KEV POC

Unauthenticated attackers who can reach the file-upload interface of Check Point Management Server can combine directory traversal with a malicious file upload to place and execute arbitrary scripts, resulting in full loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the management server (vendor-assigned CVSS 9.8, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The vulnerability is network-exploitable with no authentication and no user interaction, so the decisive real-world factor is exposure: these servers are normally confined to internal administrative networks, and risk rises sharply if the affected upload endpoint is reachable from an untrusted network. No public exploit code or confirmed in-the-wild exploitation was identified at time of analysis, and affected version ranges are not enumerated in the available data.

123
CVE-2026-94127 CRITICAL KEV POC

Remote code execution affects F5 BIG-IP systems that terminate traffic on a virtual server configured with both an APM (Access Policy Manager) access policy and an OAuth profile, where crafted malicious traffic can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in the data plane. The flaw is remotely reachable, unauthenticated and low complexity per the vendor's CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.3, and the independent assessment confirms full confidentiality, integrity and availability impact (C:H/I:H/A:H) with no control-plane exposure; Appliance mode does not mitigate it. Exploitability is sharply limited by configuration - instances without APM or without an OAuth profile bound to a virtual server are not affected - and no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, though the combination of unauthenticated RCE and a widely deployed enterprise appliance makes prompt hotfix deployment the priority.

118
CVE-2026-93952 CRITICAL KEV POC

Unauthenticated remote attackers can reach privileged internal functionality on customer-hosted (on-prem) Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments, potentially compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the orchestrator itself and the data it manages. The vulnerable code path is exposed pre-authentication (PR:N) with no user interaction required, though the vendor's CVSS 4.0 vector and our independent assessment both assign high attack complexity (AC:H), indicating exploitation depends on specific conditions or non-trivial request crafting rather than a single trivial call. Arista-managed Hosted and Dedicated VCO instances have already been patched and are not at risk; only customer-run on-prem VCO appliances remain exposed, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

116
CVE-2026-87902 HIGH KEV POC

Unauthenticated remote attackers can manipulate WordPress core's get_page_template() page-template resolution so that it includes a chosen, readable local .php file residing outside the active theme directories; where the required server and active-theme preconditions are both satisfied, that include escalates to remote code execution. The issue carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), with the high attack complexity reflecting the need for a suitable readable PHP file and matching environment conditions rather than any authentication or user-interaction barrier. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the flaw is not listed in CISA KEV; on hardened or non-matching configurations the impact degrades to local file inclusion and information disclosure.

71
CVE-2026-100382 CRITICAL POC

OS command injection in the MediaWiki ExternalData extension before version 3.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary operating-system commands on the wiki server. The flaw is reachable over the network with no authentication required per the CVSS vector (PR:N) and low attack complexity, and because the injected command runs in the web server's process context, the vendor's CVSS 4.0 score and our independent re-score both rate it at the maximum severity (10.0), extending impact to subsequent systems (S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H). Exploitation is conditional: the wiki must actually have ExternalData installed (it is an optional extension) and must have a program/command-executing external data source explicitly configured, and invocation may require page-edit rights on wikis that restrict editing; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but a vendor patch is available in ExternalData 3.7.

71
CVE-2026-97359 CRITICAL POC

Unauthenticated remote code execution in Rejetto HFS2 (HTTP File Server) through version 2.4.0 lets an attacker execute arbitrary commands on the underlying host by hiding server-side template syntax inside the filename of a multipart file upload. The crafted filename closes the template quoting context and injects an exec macro, which bypasses the dispatcher's authorization check, so no credentials or user interaction are required (assessed CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H; vendor score 10.0). Publicly available exploit code exists and an advisory with a proof-of-concept walkthrough is referenced by VulnCheck, but no KEV entry was provided, so this is not confirmed as actively exploited; the practical limiting factor is whether the multipart upload endpoint is reachable from the attacker's network.

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