Rhoda Smart

For years, vulnerability management has revolved around a familiar ritual: scan, score, sort, patch. At the center of that ritual sat CVSS, a single numerical expression of danger that promised clarity in a chaotic threat landscape. Over time, that promise hardened into dependency. CVSS scores became policy triggers, SLA benchmarks, and executive talking points. Yet as systems grew more interconnected and attacks more adaptive, the gap between what CVSS measured and what defenders experienced...

Python’s widespread use for automation and scripting is a double-edged sword: it accelerates workflow development but expands the attack surface of automation platforms. In the context of n8n , a popular open-source workflow automation tool, Python execution has historically been a security challenge. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-68668  prompted n8n to remove in-process Pyodide execution and harden defaults to reduce unsafe sandboxing paths. However, CVE-2026-0863  demonstrates that...

CVE-2025-14847 is a remotely exploitable information disclosure vulnerability affecting MongoDB Server . The flaw exists in the server’s network message handling logic and can be triggered before authentication, making it reachable by any client that can establish a network connection to the MongoDB service. MongoDB uses a custom binary wire protocol over TCP for all client–server communication. To reduce bandwidth usage, the protocol supports optional message compression, including zlib....