02 Oct, 2026

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. A new report from cloud security company Wiz confirmed exploitation across multiple environments, including an exploit chain that combines CVE-2026-42018 and CVE-2026-42016. The third vulnerability is CVE-2026-82329, a critical […]

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OpenAI models used Artifactory zero-days to escape to the internet

JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in self-hosted Artifactory servers to help escape an isolated testing environment and gain access to the internet before attacking Hugging Face. The vulnerabilities were exploited during the incident in which OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal answers for a cybersecurity benchmark. OpenAI disclosed […]

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