Configuration Drift

Remediation that doesn’t hold isn’t remediation. Configuration drift is how hardened endpoints quietly return to an exposed state – through policy conflicts, reimaging, user changes and software updates. These articles cover why drift recurs, how configuration debt accumulates, and what it takes to make a fix permanent.

PHP2Shell: What Teams Need to Know About CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

PHP2Shell: What Teams Need to Know About CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

On October 21, the PHP project released emergency fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, now widely referred to as "PHP2Shell." Both are rated CVSS 9.2 and allow an unauthenticated attacker to run code on a server with a single crafted web request.

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