Cloud-Security
Pickle in the Middle: Vertex AI SDK Bucket-Squatting Bug Enabled Cross-Tenant RCE
Unit 42's 'Pickle in the Middle' shows how a predictable staging-bucket name in the Vertex AI Python SDK let an attacker hijack model uploads and run code cross-tenant. Patched in google-cloud-aiplatform 1.148.0.
Redis CVE-2026-23479: AI-Discovered Use-After-Free Yields RCE on a Database That's Everywhere
An authenticated use-after-free in Redis's blocking-client path (CVE-2026-23479, CVSS 8.8) gives a low-privilege user OS command execution on the host. It sat unnoticed for over two years and was found by an autonomous AI bug-hunting tool.
AI at the Wheel: An LLM Agent Ran a Full Cloud Intrusion in Under an Hour
Sysdig's Threat Research Team documented one of the first in-the-wild intrusions where a large language model agent — not a human — drove the entire post-exploitation chain, pivoting from a marimo RCE to a full PostgreSQL dump in four hops.
DEEP#DOOR: Python Backdoor Hides C2 Behind bore.pub Tunneling Service to Steal Cloud and Browser Credentials
Securonix details DEEP#DOOR, a Python backdoor that uses the public bore.pub TCP tunneling service for C2, disables Defender/SmartScreen via batch loader, and harvests browser-stored cloud credentials from compromised hosts.
LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626: SSRF in LLM Inference Server Exploited 12 Hours After Disclosure, Honeypot Sees AWS IMDS Theft
A 7.5-severity SSRF in Shanghai AI Lab's LMDeploy LLM serving toolkit was hit in the wild within 12h31m of the GitHub advisory. Sysdig's honeypot caught an attacker using the vision-language image loader to scrape AWS instance metadata, then pivot to internal Redis and MySQL.
CVE-2026-32922: OpenClaw Privilege Escalation Lets Any Paired Device Achieve Full RCE
A missing scope validation in OpenClaw's device.token.rotate endpoint lets any device with operator.pairing scope mint admin tokens and execute arbitrary code on connected nodes.
React2Shell Under Mass Exploitation: 766+ Next.js Hosts Breached in Credential Harvesting Campaign
Threat actor UAT-10608 is mass-exploiting CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) to breach Next.js deployments and harvest cloud credentials, SSH keys, and API tokens at scale.