Thursday, February 19, 2026 Archive

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Archived Security Brief

Thursday's vulnerability disclosures are dominated by multiple critical HP product vulnerabilities and a CVSS 10.0 Dell RecoverPoint flaw under active exploitation. The disclosure volume includes 20 critical CVEs (up 186% from the prior day) and 82 high-priority vulnerabilities (up 71%), reflecting a significant escalation in disclosed risk. Notable critical entries include CVE-2026-27175, CVE-2026-27174, and CVE-2026-27180 affecting HP products with CVSS 9.8 scores, alongside CVE-2026-1937 targeting WordPress. Microsoft Windows and Office account for six actively exploited vulnerabilities, with additional confirmed exploitation in GitLab, Apple OS, and Google Chromium. Patch availability currently stands at 0%, requiring organizations to prioritize compensating controls and monitoring for all affected systems.

  • Dell RecoverPoint CVE-2026-22769 carries a perfect CVSS 10.0 score with confirmed active exploitation
  • 20 critical CVEs disclosed, a 186% increase over the prior day's 7 critical vulnerabilities
  • 82 high-priority CVEs represent a 71% increase from the previous day's 48 high-priority disclosures
  • HP products account for at least 7 critical vulnerabilities with CVSS 9.4-9.8, indicating widespread exposure across HP environments
  • Microsoft Windows and Office have 6 actively exploited CVEs spanning remote code execution and privilege escalation vectors
  • 0% patch availability across all 102 disclosed CVEs; 20 vulnerabilities have confirmed active exploitation

Immediate action: Prioritize Dell RecoverPoint, HP product lines, Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Office for immediate review and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation and enhanced monitoring. With no patches currently available for any of the 102 disclosed vulnerabilities, organizations should implement detection rules for known exploitation patterns and restrict access to affected services until vendor remediations 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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