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high4 min

requestInput() Type Confusion: NaN and Object Bypass in JavaScript

The `requestInput()` utility function lacked validation on its `type` parameter and failed to handle `NaN` results from float conversions, creating a type confusion weakness. An attacker could supply malformed inputs that propagate unhandled `NaN` values or unexpected object types through the type system. The fix adds explicit guards against `NaN` type parameters and rejects non-primitive type values.

#security#javascript#type-confusion+4 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high5 min

undici 8.10.0 Cache Poisoning: CVE-2026-85152 Auth Bypass

undici, the HTTP client used by Node.js's `fetch()` implementation, shipped a caching layer that did not properly isolate cached responses by origin, letting a response poisoned on one origin be served to requests for another. This created a path to cross-origin authentication bypass, tracked as CVE-2026-85152 and fixed in undici 8.10.2.

#authentication#cache-poisoning#undici+2 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
critical5 min

pet-window.js Dynamic Code Evaluation: CWE-94 Hardening via Number

The pet-window module constructed dynamic JavaScript by embedding raw configuration values into code strings. An attacker with local access could inject arbitrary JavaScript by modifying stored configuration. The fix replaces string interpolation with explicit Number() coercion and NaN validation for all numeric configuration parameters.

#injection#javascript#electron+3 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high8 min

sanitizeUnicodeInput(): Fullwidth U+ Bypasses Codepoint Validation

The `sanitizeUnicodeInput()` helper used by the project character-range settings screen rewrote `U+` prefixes to `0x` and called `parseInt()`, but never normalized its argument first. Compatibility-equivalent forms such as fullwidth `U+`, superscript digits, or mathematical alphanumerics never matched the `/U\+/gi` regex, fell through to the `else return inputString` branch, and were handed back to callers verbatim as "sanitized" values. The fix inserts a `String.prototype.normalize('NFKC')` pas

#injection#javascript#unicode-normalization+3 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high5 min

Voice Assistant Widget XSS: Unsanitized Bot Messages Execute in

The voice assistant widget's `appendMessage` function had a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability where bot messages were inserted directly into the DOM without sanitization, while user messages were escaped. An attacker controlling bot responses could inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the user's browser context. The fix applies HTML escaping to all message types uniformly.

#xss#javascript#dom-injection+4 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
critical5 min

No Rate Limit on /api/uploads/presign Enables DoS

The `/api/uploads/presign` endpoint accepted unlimited concurrent requests to generate storage presigned URLs, giving an attacker a free lever to exhaust storage-provider quotas and server resources. The fix adds an `express-rate-limit` middleware capping each client to 30 requests per minute on that route.

#security#denial-of-service#rate-limiting+3 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high5 min

brace-expansion Stack Exhaustion: CVE-2026-102276 Patched

A critical stack exhaustion vulnerability in brace-expansion allows attackers to crash Node.js applications by supplying specially crafted brace patterns that trigger unbounded recursion. The fix upgrades the library across all maintained version lines to enforce depth limits on recursive expansion. This vulnerability affects any service that expands user-controlled brace patterns without input validation.

#injection#denial-of-service#nodejs+2 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
critical4 min

Hybridauth Telegram OAuth Timing Attack in `authenticateCheckError()`

The Telegram OAuth provider in Hybridauth relied on `strcmp()` to validate HMAC-SHA256 signatures, exposing a timing side-channel that could allow attackers to forge authentication tokens character by character. The fix replaces this with PHP's timing-safe `hash_equals()` function, eliminating the information leak.

#authentication#cryptography#timing-attack+5 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high5 min

undici 7.29.0 TLS Bypass: BalancedPool Drops Connect Options

A critical flaw in undici's BalancedPool implementation silently discards TLS certificate validation settings when routing requests through certain connection paths. Attackers on the network could intercept HTTPS traffic without triggering validation errors. The fix preserves connect options throughout the connection lifecycle.

#cryptography#tls-validation#undici+2 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
high8 min

axios 1.18.1 CVE-2026-101898: HTTP/2 Ignores proxy and lookup

A dependency upgrade moved `axios` from 1.18.1 to 1.20.0 to pick up the fix for CVE-2026-101898, in which proxy and DNS resolution settings supplied through axios request configuration were not applied on the HTTP/2 request path. Applications that rely on `config.proxy`, `HTTP_PROXY`/`NO_PROXY` environment variables, or a custom `lookup` function as an SSRF or egress control could have those controls silently skipped for HTTP/2 requests.

#ssrf#axios#npm+3 more
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anupamme
Oct 2, 2026
critical4 min

webapp-testing Server Script: Shell Injection via Unquoted Command

A critical command injection vulnerability in a web server testing utility allowed attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands by injecting metacharacters into command-line arguments. The fix removes shell interpretation and safely tokenizes user-supplied commands using `shlex.split()`, while preserving support for legitimate directory-change workflows.

#command-injection#python#subprocess+2 more
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anupamme
Oct 1, 2026
critical4 min

Aardvark.Cef.Process.Core Shared Memory Handler: Unvalidated memcpy

The shared memory handler in Aardvark.Cef.Process.Core failed to validate that the `length` parameter passed from JavaScript did not exceed the destination buffer size before calling `memcpy`. This allowed a compromised Chromium renderer process to corrupt heap memory by supplying an oversized `handle->length` value to the `openMapping` function. The fix adds explicit bounds checking using `GetArrayBufferByteLength()` before the copy operation.

#buffer-overflow#cef#chromium-embedded-framework+4 more
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anupamme
Oct 1, 2026