Friday, February 13, 2026 Archive

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Archived Security Brief

Friday's vulnerability disclosures include 18 critical and 100 high-priority CVEs, with Microsoft Windows and Office accounting for multiple actively exploited flaws. Critical counts rose 13% from the prior day while high-priority volume held steady. Notable critical disclosures include CVE-2026-26216 (CVSS 10.0, Docker API deployment), CVE-2026-1729 and CVE-2025-14892 (both CVSS 9.8, WordPress), and CVE-2026-26218 (CVSS 9.8, newbee-mall). SmarterTools SmarterMail appears in three separate actively exploited vulnerabilities, and Microsoft products span six KEV entries covering Windows and Office components. No patches are currently available for disclosed vulnerabilities, requiring defenders to prioritize compensating controls and network segmentation.

  • CVE-2026-26216 rated CVSS 10.0 affecting Docker API deployment — highest severity disclosure this cycle
  • 18 critical CVEs disclosed, up 13% from prior day's 16; 100 high-priority CVEs unchanged
  • Microsoft products dominate active exploitation with 6 KEV entries across Windows and Office
  • SmarterTools SmarterMail has 3 actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-52691, CVE-2026-23760, CVE-2026-24423)
  • 0% patch availability across all 118 disclosed CVEs — compensating controls required
  • 20 actively exploited vulnerabilities confirmed, up 18% from prior day's 17

Immediate action: Prioritize compensating controls for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and SmarterTools SmarterMail environments given multiple actively exploited vulnerabilities with no patches currently available. Apply network segmentation and restrict access to Docker API, WordPress, and FreePBX instances 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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