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By Igal Zeifman

IBM has disclosed three critical flaws in WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0, including identity spoofing and two remote code execution paths that let unauthenticated attackers impersonate users or run code.

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By Igal Zeifman

Sample of assets impacted by NGINX nginx-poolslip vulnerability, identified by the CyCognito Platform What is CVE-2026-9256? CVE-2026-9256, publicly nicknamed “nginx-poolslip,” is a heap buffer overflow in the ngx_http_rewrite_module component of NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source. The flaw is triggered when a rewrite directive uses a regex pattern with distinct, overlapping Perl-Compatible Regular Expression captures (for example, ^/((.*))$) and a replacement string that references multiple such captures (for example, $1$2) in a redirect or arguments context. Under these conditions, NGINX underestimates the length of the output after URI escaping, producing an out-of-bounds write inside the worker process memory pool. The…

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