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PracticesForgejo drops OpenID 2.0 in v19, and your deadline depends on your release track3 NovA Forgejo notice dated 2 November 2026 says OpenID Authentication 2.0 support ends in v19, scheduled for 25 March 2027, with v15 LTS the last release to carry it on the LTS track and v17 and v18 on the stable track. The notice also says OIDC and OAuth are unaffected, gives no CVE or security reason, and sends readers to a discussion thread for the reasoning. No configuration keys or setup steps were collected for this note.
PracticesHaxy: a git forge in preview that keeps project metadata in the repo16 OctThe new MIT-licensed forge stores issues, discussions and patches as event commits on a repository branch so projects move between instances, serves its terminal UI over SSH, and warns that preview data is deleted before production.
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PwnEscape Part 2: from a Firecracker guest to root on the host, in a setup without the jailer

The researchers behind October's kernel bug have published the other half: using that host-memory primitive to find Firecracker in memory, take over a live vCPU thread and redirect its return from KVM to a call of their choosing, with the VM left running and reachable. Their test used Firecracker v1.16.1 with the VMM launched as root and no jailer, and they say a jailer-hardened deployment needs a separate assessment. No new CVE, no vendor advisory and no Firecracker fix appears in the source.

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SourceHut's closed registration was closed in the page, not in the handler

meta.sr.ht before 0.89.0 still accepted POST /register/step2 on instances whose operator had disabled registration: the handler returned the closed message on every error path but did not check the setting on the success path, and a CSRF token lifted from /login made the request work. Email confirmation still applied where SMTP was configured. NVD scores it 5.3 Medium on its primary CVSS 3.1 metric and fixes 0.89.0, and nothing collected shows exploitation.

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Two Critical Puppet bugs are fixed, and your autosign config decides how exposed you were

CVE-2026-115731 (CVSS 4.0 9.4) lets anyone holding a CA-signed agent certificate run code on the Puppet Server by submitting a crafted report, and autosign without strong verification turns that into an unauthenticated chain. CVE-2026-115732 (9.0) accepts a certificate whose name extends or shortens an authorised hostname as that host. OpenVox patched on 3 November with server 9.2.0 and 8.18.0 and agent 9.3.0 and 8.32.0; the NVD records carry Perforce's Puppet Enterprise ranges, and nothing collected shows exploitation in the wild.

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Grafana lists ten CVEs in 13.3.0 and fixes an eleventh

Grafana shipped 12.4.14, 13.2.5 and 13.3.0 on 27 October with security lists that do not match: ten CVEs in 13.3.0's security section plus an eleventh fixed in its changelog, four in 13.2.5, three in 12.4.14. The collected records score 4.3 to 6.5, all Medium, and none is Critical.

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GitLab's critical patch fixes a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE

CVE-2026-110264 is an integer overflow in GitLab's regular expression compiler that could let an unauthenticated user run code on the server. Patches are out for every supported line, with backports to older branches and two threat detections for self-managed instances.

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Node.js patches a Brotli RCE and two TLS hostname bypasses

Node.js published v26.12.1, v24.22.1 and v22.23.4 on 21 October with four issues rated high, including a Brotli decoder out-of-bounds write that permits remote code execution and two certificate hostname bypasses. The same releases refresh bundled dependencies, including the eMudhra CA fix.

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gVisor is being donated to the CNCF

Google hands the sandboxed container runtime to the foundation behind Kubernetes: Sandbox status first, the repository leaving the google org, and a maintainers model with Ant Group, Modal and Tines joining.

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