Thursday, February 12, 2026 Archive

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Archived Security Brief

Thursday's vulnerability disclosures include 16 critical-severity CVEs affecting WordPress, METIS WIC and DFS IoT devices, HP systems, and AWS infrastructure, alongside active exploitation of Microsoft Office and Windows components. Critical CVE volume increased 78% from the prior day (16 vs. 9), while high-priority disclosures held steady at 100. Notable critical entries include CVE-2025-64075 (CVSS 10.0) affecting WE2001 check systems, CVE-2026-1357 and CVE-2026-1729 targeting WordPress installations, and CVE-2026-2248/CVE-2026-2249 impacting METIS industrial devices. Attack patterns span remote code execution, command injection in media converters, and authentication bypass in enterprise mail platforms including SmarterTools SmarterMail and Sangoma FreePBX. No patches are currently available for the disclosed vulnerabilities, requiring defenders to implement compensating controls and monitor for exploitation activity.

  • CVE-2025-64075 rated CVSS 10.0 affecting WE2001 check systems — highest severity score in today's disclosures
  • 16 critical CVEs disclosed (up 78% from prior day), including multiple WordPress and METIS IoT device vulnerabilities
  • 100 high-priority CVEs (CVSS 7.0–8.9), unchanged from prior day, spanning enterprise and consumer products
  • Remote code execution and command injection patterns dominate critical findings across media converters, WordPress plugins, and HP shell file handling
  • 0% patch availability across all 116 disclosed CVEs — no vendor fixes currently released
  • 17 actively exploited vulnerabilities include VMware vCenter Server, Microsoft Office/Windows, GitLab, and SmarterMail

Immediate action: Prioritize reviewing exposure to Microsoft Office (CVE-2026-21509), Microsoft Windows (CVE-2026-21525), VMware vCenter Server (CVE-2024-37079), and SmarterTools SmarterMail (CVE-2025-52691, CVE-2026-23760, CVE-2026-24423), all of which have confirmed active exploitation. With 0% patch availability, implement network segmentation, restrict access to affected services, and deploy available detection signatures as interim mitigations until vendor patches are released.

How to read this brief

CVSS score (e.g. 9.1) — severity from 0–10. Red marks critical (9+), orange high (7–8.9).

Exploitability — how hard the flaw is to attack, read from the CVSS vector:

  • Network / Adjacent / Local / Physical — how close an attacker must get. Network means reachable over the internet.
  • No / Low / High privileges — the access they need first. No privileges means no login required.
  • No interaction / User interaction — whether a victim has to do something (open a file, click a link). No interaction means fully automatable.

The lower the bar on all three, the easier to exploit at scale — “Network · No privileges · No interaction” is the worst case: hit from anywhere, no credentials, no victim action.

Actively exploited — confirmed under attack in the wild (CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog). Prioritize these regardless of score.

EPSS · Nth percentile — FIRST.org’s estimated chance a flaw is exploited within 30 days. We flag it only in the top 10% — a statistical signal it’s unusually likely to be targeted, separate from whether attacks are confirmed.

💡 Tip: Swipe CVE cards left to ⭐ star, right to ❌ remove

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