This brief covers the trailing ~48 hours (November 6–7, 2026). Every item below was traced to a primary source — a vendor advisory, the CVE record, the NVD/CISA KEV entry, or the original research — and the dates shown are the dates those primary sources carry.
SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN SAML/MFA bypass (CVE-2026-19868) exploited in the wild, added to CISA KEV
SonicWall PSIRT / CISA · November 6, 2026
SonicWall published advisory SNWLID-2026-0014 for CVE-2026-19868, an authentication-enforcement flaw in the SonicOS SSLVPN service. A user holding valid credentials for an alternate authentication method can bypass SAML authentication controls, and SonicWall says successful exploitation may also bypass SAML-enforced multi-factor authentication. The bug is rated CVSS 3.1 7.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N) and affects Gen7 SonicOS 7.3.3-7015 and older and Gen8 SonicOS 8.2.2-8015 and older; SonicWall urges upgrading to the latest release, with outlets citing the advisory listing SonicOS 7.3.4-7013 (Gen7) and 8.2.3-8015 (Gen8) as the fixed builds. CISA added the CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day as “SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN Use of Single-factor Authentication Vulnerability,” with a federal remediation deadline of November 20, 2026. Admins running SAML on SSLVPN should patch and review logins that skipped MFA.
“An authentication enforcement vulnerability in SonicOS SSLVPN service may allow a user with valid credentials for an alternate authentication method to bypass SAML authentication controls. Successful exploitation may also bypass SAML-enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA).” — CVE-2026-19868 record, SonicWall (CNA)
Source: SonicWall PSIRT SNWLID-2026-0014 · NVD CVE-2026-19868 (KEV: added 2026-11-06) · CISA alert · Security Affairs
OpenSSH “SSHole” password-authentication bypass (CVE-2026-123158) sees exploitation attempts within hours of disclosure
OpenSSH / Alpine Linux / Previdian · November 5–6, 2026
OpenSSH released 10.6p2 on November 5 to close CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS 3.1 8.1, AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), a password-authentication bypass affecting sshd on Linux systems built with musl libc and PAM disabled — Alpine Linux’s default, with OpenWrt, Buildroot and Yocto also named. Per the CVE record, for some account configurations “any password between 256 and 1024 characters succeeds,” including on accounts whose password field is set to “*”. Reported by Özgün Kültekin of Wakefield, the root cause traces to a 2016 username-enumeration fix (CVE-2016-6210). Threat-intel firm Previdian’s honeypot sensors recorded the first exploitation attempt at 00:05 UTC on November 6, roughly eight hours after the CVE was published, and had logged 17 attempts from 11 IPs by November 7, confirming root access on an Alpine honeypot. Not yet in CISA KEV. Alpine notes that upgrading the package alone does not replace the running daemon — sshd must be restarted.
“An attacker who can reach your SSH port can log in without knowing any password. It takes one connection, works every time, and needs no retries.” — Alpine Linux security advisory, November 5, 2026
Source: OpenSSH 10.6p2 release notes · Alpine Linux advisory · NVD CVE-2026-123158 · Previdian telemetry · SecurityWeek · The Hacker News
QNAP confirms NAS compromises via “Plex2Shell” Plex Media Server chain (CVE-2026-96652/96654/96655/96656)
QNAP PSIRT · November 6, 2026
QNAP issued a security notice saying it has received reports from users that Plex Media Server running on their NAS devices appears to have been compromised through the Plex2Shell vulnerability chain — CVE-2026-96652, CVE-2026-96654, CVE-2026-96655 and CVE-2026-96656 — which affects Plex Media Server 1.43.2 and earlier and is fixed in 1.43.3.10861. The four CVEs were added to CISA KEV on October 20, 2026, after exploitation began following public disclosure of technical details on October 16; QTS, QuTS hero and other QNAP operating systems are not themselves affected. QNAP’s guidance is blunt: if a vulnerable Plex instance was reachable from the internet (Remote Access, forwarded port 32400, or UPnP), updating alone will not remove an attacker’s changes — users should check for indicators of compromise, perform a clean reinstall, and reset Plex and NAS credentials.
“Plex has confirmed that these vulnerabilities are being actively and widely exploited.” — QNAP Security Notice, November 6, 2026
Source: QNAP security notice · QNAP remediation FAQ · Plex2Shell research (Zach Main) · BleepingComputer
WordPress core RCE (CVE-2026-119977): installing the fix can expose a site one last time; federal KEV deadline passes
Picus Security / The Hacker News · November 5–6, 2026
CVE-2026-119977 is an unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw in WordPress core 4.7 through 7.1.3 (CVSS 3.1 8.1 per Wordfence, the CNA), caused by predictable, web-accessible staging paths under wp-content/upgrade/ during full-package core updates; it was fixed in 7.1.4 and added to CISA KEV on November 3 with a November 6 remediation deadline that has now passed. New analysis from Picus Security’s Umut Bayram, reported November 6, shows the update that installs the fix still unpacks files with the site’s old, unpatched updater, so a site on 5.9 or later is exposed one final time during that upgrade, and wp core update uses the same code path. Wordfence has observed attack attempts beginning minutes after its firewall rule shipped. Recommended mitigation: block web access to wp-content/upgrade/ (confirm a 403) before updating, or update manually outside the web-served root.
“WordPress Core is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions 4.7 through 7.1.3. This is due to predictable, web-accessible staging paths used during full-package core upgrades. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server during the upgrade window.” — CVE-2026-119977 record, Wordfence (CNA)
Source: Picus Security analysis · WordPress security advisory GHSA-4w3m-c66w-69mg · NVD CVE-2026-119977 (KEV: added 2026-11-03) · The Hacker News
Still developing
Zyxel GS1900 switch zero-day (CVE-2026-107441) behind ~1,000 device compromises
Zyxel / Binarly · November 3, 2026
Zyxel’s November 3 advisory and a same-day Binarly write-up disclosed CVE-2026-107441 (CVSS 3.1 8.8, AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), an unauthenticated out-of-bounds write in the CGI program of GS1900-series switch firmware through 2.90(xxxx.2)C0 that can lead to OS command execution via a crafted HTTP request; fixes are in the 2.90(xxxx.3)C0 “patch 3” firmware for ten models. Binarly determined that the intrusions earlier blamed on the June-patched CVE-2026-7273 — which SecurityWeek reports compromised almost 1,000 switches and deployed Jitterly and Sixzut malware — were in fact exploiting this previously unknown flaw, so the earlier patch did not stop the attackers. Not currently in CISA KEV.
Source: Zyxel advisory · Binarly research · SecurityWeek
APT29 watering holes deliver n-day iOS and Android exploit chains; Apple PAC bypass (CVE-2024-27834) lands in KEV
Sekoia / CISA · November 4, 2026
Sekoia attributes, with moderate-to-high confidence, a watering-hole campaign to APT29 (Midnight Blizzard) that served packaged exploit chains to iOS and Android visitors of compromised or cloned sites — including a Ukrainian gas producer, a Bulgarian military-related site, lookalikes of america250.org and a London hotel, and a supply-chain compromise of analytics provider Plerdy. The chains use only already-patched bugs, among them Apple’s CVE-2024-27834 (CVSS 5.5, Pointer Authentication bypass, fixed in iOS/iPadOS 17.5 and 16.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.5, Safari 17.5), Chrome’s CVE-2026-3910 and Qualcomm’s CVE-2025-27038. CISA added CVE-2024-27834 to KEV on November 4 as “Apple Multiple Products Improper Authentication Vulnerability,” with a federal deadline of November 18, 2026.
“All three exploit chains rely entirely on known, already-patched vulnerabilities. None of them contain zero-days or work against fully updated devices.” — Sekoia, “Poisoned source,” November 4, 2026
Source: Sekoia research · NVD CVE-2024-27834 (KEV: added 2026-11-04) · SecurityWeek
This brief covers the trailing ~48 hours (November 6–7, 2026).
Primary sources: SonicWall SNWLID-2026-0014 · NVD CVE-2026-19868 · CISA KEV catalog · OpenSSH 10.6p2 release notes · Alpine Linux advisory · NVD CVE-2026-123158 · Previdian CVE-2026-123158 · QNAP security notice · Picus Security · WordPress GHSA-4w3m-c66w-69mg · NVD CVE-2026-119977 · Zyxel advisory · Binarly · Sekoia · NVD CVE-2024-27834