Digest · Friday
Security digest: August 21, 2026
1 known exploited (cisa kev) addition and 6 critical advisories.
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- Do you run any of these? Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2026-08-24.
- npm: 3 critical advisories (
jsonata). Check withnpm audit (or: npm ls <package>). - PyPI: 1 critical advisory (
xinference). Check withpip-audit (or: pip show <package>). - Maven: 1 critical advisory (
org.geotools.jdbc:gt-jdbc-postgis). Check withmvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>. - Composer (PHP): 1 critical advisory (
phalcon/cphalcon). Check withcomposer audit. - 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-2026-73570 | Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) OS Command Injection Vulnerability | 2026-08-24 |
Critical advisories by ecosystem 6
GitHub-reviewed advisories rated critical, published this day (Pacific time).
npm 3
Check: npm audit (or: npm ls <package>)
- JSONata: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions CVE-2026-77413 CVSS 9.3 Critical
jsonata<= 1.8.7 → fixed in 1.8.8;jsonata>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.0 → fixed in 2.2.0 - JSONata vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions CVE-2026-77415 CVSS 9.3 Critical
jsonata>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1;jsonata< 1.8.8 → fixed in 1.8.8 - JSONata vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions CVE-2026-77414 CVSS 9.3 Critical
jsonata>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1;jsonata< 1.8.8 → fixed in 1.8.8
Composer (PHP) 1
Check: composer audit
- Phalcon Volt compiler `join` filter compile-time PHP code injection (SSTI leads to RCE) CVE-2026-59989 CVSS 9.2 Critical
phalcon/cphalcon<= 5.15.0 → fixed in 5.16.0
Maven 1
Check: mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=<groupId>:<artifactId>
- GeoTools has unauthenticated SQL injection in the jsonArrayContains filter function against PostGIS layers CVE-2026-76904 CVSS 9.8 Critical
org.geotools.jdbc:gt-jdbc-postgis= 35.0 → fixed in 35.1;org.geotools.jdbc:gt-jdbc-postgis>= 34.0, < 34.5 → fixed in 34.5;org.geotools.jdbc:gt-jdbc-postgis>= 30.5, < 33.6 → fixed in 33.6
PyPI 1
Check: pip-audit (or: pip show <package>)
- Xinference vulnerable to remote code execution via unsafe `eval()` in Llama3 tool-call parsing CVE-2026-61539 CVSS 10.0 Critical
xinference<= 2.5.0 → fixed in 2.7.0