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Critical vulnerability flagged in CISA's Malcolm network tool
Original: ๐จ EUVD-2026-76738 ๐ Score: 9.2/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐ฆ Product: Malcolm ๐ข Vendor: CISA ๐ Published: 2026-09-11 | Updated: 2026-
A high-severity vulnerability, EUVD-2026-76738, has been published for Malcolm, the open-source network traffic analysis toolkit distributed by CISA. The flaw, scored 9.2 out of 10 on the CVSS v3.1 scale, stems from an example environment-configuration file for a bundled inventory-management component that ships with a fixed, publicly known administrative password. The advisory was published on 11 September 2026 and updated on 2 October 2026.
Why now: Security teams are monitoring a newly disclosed critical flaw in a widely used CISA forensics tool, which could expose deployments to takeover via default credentials.
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