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CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA added ownCloud CVE-2023-49105, Linux kernel CVE-2026-53362, and JFrog Artifactory CVE-2026-66384 to the KEV catalog based on active exploitation. That turns three very different technologies into one immediate operational problem: find the affected assets fast, decide which ones are exposed, and move them ahead of routine patch backlog.
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Why it matters: This matters because the affected technologies are not concentrated in one niche stack. ownCloud can expose shared business data, Artifactory sits in the software supply chain, and the Linux kernel can underpin a far wider server footprint than one team may realize, so the real job is fast asset mapping and compromise review.
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Original source: CISA
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