Chrome Update Patches Exploited XML Zero-Day CVE-2026-125350, Eighth This Year

N-able Takes N-central Cloud Offline After Researcher Discloses 33 Zero-Days with PoC Exploits

N-able has taken its N-central Hosted Environments offline across Americas, APAC, and Europe following the public disclosure of more than 30 zero-day vulnerabilities collectively tracked as Able2Shell. Independent researcher Sean Bales published proof-of-concept exploits for flaws affecting N-central Appliance 2026.4.0.31, including credential disclosure, arbitrary file writes, directory traversal, XSS, XXE injection, and remote code execution. The issues enable anonymous credential theft, administrator account creation, and root-level command execution through multiple attack chains such as XXE/NCI trust abuse, support-token theft, and XSS-to-OGNL. N-able stated it has not observed active exploitation in the wild and is preparing a hot fix while advising on-premises customers to shut down servers until remediation is available. Impacted services include both hosted and on-premise deployments of N-central, while Ecoverse services under N-able Login remain operational.

Google Patches Eighth Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-125350 of 2026

Google released updates addressing nine vulnerabilities in Chrome, including one actively exploited zero-day tracked as CVE-2026-125350. The flaw is a use-after-free issue in the XML component that can lead to data corruption, crashes, or arbitrary code execution. An anonymous researcher reported the bug on November 6, 2026, and Google confirmed in-the-wild exploitation without disclosing attacker details. This marks the eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day patched by Google since the beginning of 2026. Affected users should immediately update to Chrome version 157.0.8103.50 or later on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Other Chromium-based browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi are also urged to apply equivalent fixes promptly.

CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Flaws in OpenSSH, GPUStack, FreeSwitch and IBM Aspera Faspex to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added four high-severity vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog due to confirmed active exploitation in the wild. The flaws affect GPUStack, SignalWire FreeSwitch, OpenBSD OpenSSH on Linux, and IBM Aspera Faspex, with CVSS scores ranging from 8.1 to 9.8. Exploitation of the OpenSSH flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 and nicknamed SSHole, began on November 6, 2026, with at least 22 attempts recorded from 14 unique IP addresses. Post-exploitation activity includes reconnaissance, cloud metadata queries, password hash theft, and deployment of the Python-based TAC Agent command-and-control framework. Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies have until November 12, 2026 to apply available patches. The remaining three vulnerabilities also show signs of real-world abuse, though public details on attackers and scale remain limited.