Fortinet has issued emergency updates to address the critical FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24858, after momentarily deactivating FortiCloud SSO and blocking FortiCloud accounts observed in zero-day intrusions earlier this month, reports SecurityWeek.
The inclusion of these vulnerabilities in CISA's KEV catalog mandates federal agencies to address them by February 16, 2026, under Binding Operational Directive 22-01.
Emergency security updates have been released by Microsoft to remediate the actively exploited Office security feature bypass zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, Security Affairs reports.
Infosecurity Magazine reports that threat actors have been actively exploiting a critical authentication flaw in the open-source low-code application platform Appsmith, tracked as CVE-2026-22794, to facilitate user account takeovers.
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