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title: "Security digest: February 18, 2026"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2026-02-18/
description: "February 18, 2026 vulnerability digest: 2 CISA KEV additions (Dell, GitLab); 2 critical advisories (npm, PyPI). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2026-02-18
date_modified: 2026-02-18
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: February 18, 2026

2 known exploited (cisa kev) additions and 2 critical advisories.

## Take stock

- Do you run any of these? Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs), GitLab GitLab. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2026-02-21.
- npm: 1 critical advisory ( ghost ). Check with npm audit (or: npm ls <package>) .
- PyPI: 1 critical advisory ( nltk ). Check with pip-audit (or: pip show <package>) .
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

- [CVE-2026-22769](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2026-22769/index.md) Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs): Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs) Use of Hard-coded Credentials Vulnerability (CISA due 2026-02-21)
- [CVE-2021-22175](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2021-22175/index.md) GitLab GitLab: GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability (CISA due 2026-03-11)

## Critical advisories

- [CVE-2026-26980](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2026-26980/index.md) Ghost has a SQL injection in Content API — npm ghost >= 3.24.0, < 6.19.1 → 6.19.1
- [CVE-2025-14009](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-14009/index.md) NLTK has a Zip Slip Vulnerability — PyPI nltk <= 3.9.2 → 3.9.3

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