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KEV-Confirmed Exploitation Spans Zammad, Fortinet, Cisco, and Apple

Sep 28 - Oct 05, 2026
Total CVEs
2424
Critical + High
1268
KEV
6
Public Exploits
266

Executive Summary

Overview

This week's briefing covers 2424 vulnerabilities, including 257 critical and 1011 high-severity findings. Six are confirmed on the CISA KEV list as actively exploited, and 266 have public exploit code available. Notably, 637 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities remain unpatched, including actively exploited flaws in Fortinet FortiMail and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager for which no vendor patch has been identified.

Critical Threats

  • CVE-2026-102489 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.4) — Zammad session fixation vulnerability in versions 6.3.0 through 6.5.4 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to hijack active sessions and escalate to remote code execution with 'zammad' service account privileges; requires passive user interaction. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); vendor-released patch available.
  • CVE-2026-102490 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.4) — Zammad local privilege escalation allowing an attacker controlling the unprivileged 'zammad' service account to elevate to root, affecting versions 1.5.0 up to but not including 7.1.0-alpha. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); vendor-released patch: 7.1.0-alpha.
  • CVE-2026-104286 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.8) — Fortinet FortiMail unauthenticated path traversal allowing arbitrary file write via crafted HTTP/HTTPS requests, affecting versions 7.2.0–7.2.9, 7.4.0–7.4.8, 7.6.0–7.6.6, and 8.0.0–8.0.1. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); no vendor-released patch identified.
  • CVE-2026-76504 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.8) — Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage) authentication bypass allows unauthenticated remote attackers to reach a restricted HTTP API endpoint with admin privileges via crafted URI encoding. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); no vendor-released patch identified.
  • CVE-2026-86950 (HIGH, CVSS 8.8) — Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS out-of-bounds write in file-parsing code allows arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a maliciously crafted file. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); vendor-released patches: iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1.
  • CVE-2026-88779 (HIGH, CVSS 8.7) — Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway denial-of-service vulnerability exploitable by unauthenticated remote attackers with no user interaction required. Confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); vendor-released patch: 14.1-73.41.
  • CVE-2026-101076 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.3) — Netcore NR289-GE firmware 1.4.5102 unauthenticated OS command injection in CGI handler; remote attackers can execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted ntp_ip value to /set_ntp_server_ip.cgi. Public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified.
  • CVE-2026-102240 (CRITICAL, CVSS 9.3) — Netcore NAP930 router OS command injection via the sid parameter of /www/cgi-bin/network_tools CGI in firmware 0.1.241010.141410 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands; public exploit code available; no vendor-released patch identified.

Threat Landscape

Most-affected vendors: WordPress (462), Red Hat (149), Apache (141), Linux (118), Nvidia (117).

Most common attack techniques: Information Disclosure (557), Authentication Bypass (387), Denial Of Service (353), XSS (344), RCE (265).

Patch coverage: 1164 of 2424 CVEs have a patch; 637 Critical/High remain unpatched.

Key Trends

  • Volume is 18% down week-over-week (2959 → 2424 CVEs).
  • 6 CVEs are in CISA's KEV catalog.
  • 266 CVEs have public exploit code.

Top 8 Priority CVEs

138
CVE-2026-102489 CRITICAL KEV POC

Session hijacking in self-hosted Zammad 6.3.0 through 6.5.4 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to take over a legitimate user's active session and escalate to remote code execution running with the privileges of the 'zammad' service account. Exploitation requires passive user interaction (CVSS UI:P) - a logged-in agent or admin must load attacker-influenced content - but no prior credentials or privileges (PR:N), so the practical barrier is the narrow vulnerable version window rather than authentication. The same defect exists in Zammad 7.0.0-7.1.3 but is not exploitable there due to environmental conditions; the reporter's CVSS v4.0 base of 9.4 carries an E:A (Attacked) exploit-maturity metric, though no CISA KEV entry or confirmed public exploit code appears in the supplied data, so no public exploit is confirmed at time of analysis.

137
CVE-2026-102490 CRITICAL KEV POC

Local privilege escalation in Zammad lets an attacker who already controls the unprivileged 'zammad' service account elevate to root on the host, affecting every release from 1.5.0 up to but not including 7.1.0-alpha (including the then-current alpha). The vendor labels this critical with a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.4 and a network/unauthenticated-looking vector (AV:N/PR:N, E:A), but the description confines the attacker to an already-present local/service-account context; our independent assessment therefore re-scores it as CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, i.e. a high-impact but post-foothold escalation rather than a pre-auth remote compromise. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CVE-2026-102490 does not appear in CISA KEV, so the vendor vector's E:A exploit-maturity metric cannot be corroborated here.

126
CVE-2026-104286 CRITICAL KEV POC

Unauthenticated path traversal in Fortinet FortiMail (7.2.0-7.2.9, 7.4.0-7.4.8, 7.6.0-7.6.6 and 8.0.0-8.0.1) lets a remote attacker write arbitrary files on the underlying system via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests, yielding CVSS 9.8 with full confidentiality, integrity and availability impact. CISA has added the CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, so it is confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV), and publicly available exploit code exists, making unpatched internet-reachable gateways an urgent remediation priority. Exploitation requires only that the FortiMail HTTP/HTTPS interface be network-reachable - no authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) - so environments that confine management/web access to trusted networks or a VPN substantially reduce exposure.

125
CVE-2026-76504 CRITICAL KEV POC

Authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to reach a restricted HTTP API endpoint with the privileges of the admin user by submitting a crafted request whose URI encoding evades the authentication rule guarding that endpoint. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), meaning no credentials, no user interaction and no special complexity are required - the single real prerequisite is network reachability to the SD-WAN Manager management/API interface, so exposure is materially lower for deployments that keep that interface on trusted management networks. No public exploit code and no confirmed active exploitation were identified at time of analysis, but the impact of a successful bypass is complete administrative compromise of the controller, which drives the high priority of this issue.

120
CVE-2026-86950 HIGH KEV POC

Out-of-bounds write in Apple's iOS, iPadOS, and macOS file-parsing code lets remote attackers achieve arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a maliciously crafted file, scoring CVSS 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R, CWE-787). Apple fixed the flaw in iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.7.1, and states it is aware of a report that the issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA's SSVC assessment records an exploitation value of 'none' with the attack assessed as non-automatable.

144
CVE-2026-88779 HIGH KEV POC

A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial-of-service condition on NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances running versions prior to the fixed builds (14.1-73.41, 13.1-64.28, 13.1-37.282, and 14.1-73.41 FIPS for ADC; 14.1-73.41 and 13.1-64.28 for Gateway). The vulnerability is network-reachable with low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, making internet-facing Gateway deployments the primary risk surface. No public exploit code or CISA KEV entry was identified at time of analysis, though the CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.7 reflects high severity for the availability-only impact.

69
CVE-2026-101076 CRITICAL POC

An unauthenticated OS command injection in the CGI handler of Netcore NR289-GE firmware 1.4.5102 lets remote attackers execute arbitrary shell commands on the router by supplying a crafted ntp_ip value to /set_ntp_server_ip.cgi. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N, VC/VI/VA:H) confirms no privileges or user interaction are needed, and the only real precondition is network reachability to the device's web management interface, so risk is highest where that interface is exposed to the WAN. Publicly available exploit code exists (linked from the VulDB disclosure and hosted on GitHub), but there is no CISA KEV entry, so active exploitation is not confirmed; the vendor was contacted and did not respond, and no vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis.

69
CVE-2026-102240 CRITICAL POC

OS command injection in Netcore NAP930 firmware 0.1.241010.141410 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the device via the 'sid' parameter of the /www/cgi-bin/network_tools CGI. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102240 (CVSS 4.0: 9.3; independent assessment CVSS 3.1: 9.8), has publicly available exploit code. The vendor was contacted but did not respond, and no fixed firmware is available.

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