Digest · Friday
Security digest: March 27, 2026
1 known exploited (cisa kev) addition and 7 critical advisories.
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- Do you run any of these? F5 BIG-IP. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2026-03-30.
- npm: 3 critical advisories (
openclaw,handlebars). Check withnpm audit (or: npm ls <package>). - Go: 2 critical advisories (
github.com/lxc/incus/v6,github.com/lxc/incus). Check withgovulncheck ./.... - crates.io (Rust): 1 critical advisory (
zebrad,zebra-chain). Check withcargo audit. - PyPI: 1 critical advisory (
pyload-ng). Check withpip-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) 1
Added to CISA’s catalog on this day: confirmed exploitation in the wild. Due date = CISA’s deadline for US federal agencies.
| CVE | Product and flaw | CISA due |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-53521 | F5 BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability | 2026-03-30 |
Critical advisories by ecosystem 7
GitHub-reviewed advisories rated critical, published this day (Pacific time).
npm 3
Check: npm audit (or: npm ls <package>)
- OpenClaw: Silent privilege escalation via gateway shared-auth reconnect GHSA-fqw4-mph7-2vr8 CVSS 9.4 Critical
openclaw<= 2026.3.24 → no fix listed - OpenClaw: Gateway Backend Reconnect lets Non-Admin Operator Scopes Self-Claim operator.admin CVE-2026-35663 CVSS 9.3 Critical
openclaw<= 2026.3.24 → no fix listed - Handlebars.js has JavaScript Injection via AST Type Confusion CVE-2026-33937 CVSS 9.8 Critical
handlebars>= 4.0.0, <= 4.7.8 → fixed in 4.7.9
Go 2
Check: govulncheck ./...
- Incus has an abitrary file write through its systemd-creds options CVE-2026-33945 CVSS 9.9 Critical
github.com/lxc/incus/v6< 6.23.0 → fixed in 6.23.0 - Incus vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write through pongo templates CVE-2026-33897 CVSS 9.9 Critical
github.com/lxc/incus/v6< 6.23.0 → fixed in 6.23.0;github.com/lxc/incus<= 0.7.0 → no fix listed
PyPI 1
Check: pip-audit (or: pip show <package>)
- pyLoad: Server-Side Request Forgery via Download Link Submission Enables Cloud Metadata Exfiltration CVE-2026-33992 CVSS 9.3 Critical
pyload-ng<= 0.5.0b3.dev96 → no fix listed
crates.io (Rust) 1
Check: cargo audit
- Zebra node crash — V5 transaction hash panic (P2P reachable) CVE-2026-34202 CVSS 9.2 Critical
zebrad< 4.3.0 → fixed in 4.3.0;zebra-chain< 6.0.1 → fixed in 6.0.1