Skip to content

Daily Threat Briefing: Thursday, November 12, 2026

Critical-severity threat briefing for 12 November 2026. Top story: PTC Patches Critical Windchill and FlexPLM Flaw That Could Enable Remote Code Execution Also notable: Critical Xen Orchestra Flaws Exploited in Attacks; CVE-2026-110697: A flaw was found in Quay where the robot…

hhf technology·5 min read

#5 · 2026-11-12 · Severity: Critical

Threat types: vulnerability-exploit · Industries: technology

Verified status

CVE CVSS Vendor/product Exploitation References
CVE-2026-110697 9.9 — None known NVD
CVE-2026-123710 9.8 — None known NVD
CVE-2026-76954 9.8 — None known NVD
CVE-2026-108186 9.6 — None known NVD
CVE-2026-118383 9.5 — None known NVD
CVE-2026-126325 9.2 — Reported by source NVD
CVE-2026-119618 N/A — None known NVD

Checked against NVD and CISA KEV on 2026-11-12.

TL;DR

  • Top story: PTC Patches Critical Windchill and FlexPLM Flaw That Could Enable Remote Code Execution
  • Also notable: Critical Xen Orchestra Flaws Exploited in Attacks; CVE-2026-110697: A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from…
  • No new CISA KEV entries in the last 24 hours

Executive summary

Over the past 24 hours, threat activity reached an overall critical level driven by significant vulnerabilities and threat intelligence data. Critical flaws were identified across multiple platforms, including patches from PTC for Windchill and FlexPLM to address remote code execution risks, and actively exploited critical flaws in Xen Orchestra. Additional critical SQL vulnerability advisories were recorded for Red Hat Quay, including CVE-2026-110697, CVE-2026-123710, and CVE-2026-76954. Concurrently, telemetry tracked extensive indicator activity involving hundreds of ThreatFox entries, dozens of MalwareBazaar samples, URLhaus URLs, multiple news items, and ransomware victims.

Top threats

1. PTC Patches Critical Windchill and FlexPLM Flaw That Could Enable Remote Code Execution

Severity: Critical | Type: vulnerability-exploit | Industry: technology

PTC has released security patches for a critical vulnerability affecting its Windchill and FlexPLM software. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-126325, stems from improper input validation and the deserialization of untrusted data. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution.

Sources: The Hacker News

Recommended actions:

  • Check the linked report for products you run and verify details with the vendor before acting.

2. Critical Xen Orchestra Flaws Exploited in Attacks

Severity: Critical | Type: vulnerability-exploit | Industry: cross-industry

According to SecurityWeek, critical authentication bypass flaws in Xen Orchestra are being exploited in attacks. The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code as an administrator and take over XCP-ng nodes.

Sources: SecurityWeek

Recommended actions:

  • Check the linked report for products you run and verify details with the vendor before acting.

3. CVE-2026-110697: A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from…

Severity: Critical | Type: vulnerability-exploit | Industry: cross-industry

A flaw was found in Quay where the robot account listing function constructs a SQL LIKE pattern from user-controlled namespace names without escaping wildcard metacharacters. An attacker who creates a namespace containing an underscore character can match and retrieve robot accounts and their…

Sources: NVD

Recommended actions:

  • Check whether you run the affected product and apply the vendor fix when it is available.
  • Prioritise internet-facing systems.

4. CVE-2026-123710: A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay.

Severity: Critical | Type: vulnerability-exploit | Industry: cross-industry

A critical flaw with a CVSS score of 9.8 has been identified in Red Hat Quay. An unauthenticated client can obtain an anonymous registry token with a controlled audience and present it to the service key rotation endpoint to install an unexpired signing key. This allows the attacker to gain read and write access to private images and replace repository tags.

Sources: NVD

Recommended actions:

  • Check whether you run the affected product and apply the vendor fix when it is available.
  • Prioritise internet-facing systems.

5. CVE-2026-76954: An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command vulnerability in the Auth API in…

Severity: Critical | Type: vulnerability-exploit | Industry: cross-industry

A critical SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Auth API of Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), carrying a CVSS score of 9.8. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw to read or write arbitrary files on affected systems. The vulnerability impacts multiple DSM versions prior to the provided patched releases and can also lead to denial-of-service attacks.

Sources: NVD

Recommended actions:

  • Check whether you run the affected product and apply the vendor fix when it is available.
  • Prioritise internet-facing systems.

Ongoing: previously reported

CVE Vendor/product CVSS KEV due date First reported
CVE-2026-102895 GPUStack GPUStack 9.8 2026-11-12 2026-11-10
CVE-2026-116779 SignalWire FreeSwitch 9.8 2026-11-12 2026-11-10
CVE-2026-123158 OpenBSD OpenSSH 8.1 2026-11-12 2026-11-10
CVE-2026-123218 IBM Aspera Faspex 9.8 2026-11-12 2026-11-10
CVE-2026-111560 Barracuda Networks Multiple Products 8.6 2026-11-13 2026-11-11
CVE-2026-116606 Barracuda Networks Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) 9.3 2026-11-13 2026-11-11
CVE-2026-19868 SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN 7.5 2026-11-20 2026-11-09
CVE-2026-111793 Openwave Messaging Limited Webtop Media Transcoder 4.3 2026-11-24 2026-11-11
CVE-2026-124194 Microsoft Office 6.5 2026-11-24 2026-11-11
CVE-2026-125350 Google Chromium 8.8 2026-11-24 2026-11-10

Today’s action checklist

  • Ransomware activity is concentrated in Unknown: verify offline backups, patch internet-facing edge devices and review remote-access logins.
  • Pull current indicators from the linked abuse.ch and OTX pages and add them to blocklists or detection rules where relevant.
  • Read the linked sources for the products you run and subscribe to vendor security notices.

Indicators

18 new ransomware victims were listed in this window.

Sector Victims Most active groups
Unknown 6 N0n, medusalocker, Doommageddon
Healthcare 4 Curious Worm
Education 2 qilin
Professional Services 2 Curious Worm
Technology 2 Barracuda, Curious Worm

Raw indicators are not republished here. Pull them from the source pages.

Sources

AI-assisted, published automatically, not human-reviewed; verify with vendors before acting.

Have a thought or a question? Join the discussion below with your community account.