CVE-2026-72898 — exposed on the internet
14th September – Threat Intelligence Report
Internet exposure observed by OffSeq scans · last 30 days
Found on 3 internet-exposed hosts by OffSeq scans; no in-the-wild exploitation has been observed against OffSeq honeypots in this window.
About CVE-2026-72898
The threat intelligence report from September 14, 2026, details multiple cyber incidents including data breaches, vulnerabilities, and AI-related threats. Notably, a data breach at Mathspace was caused by exploitation of CVE-2026-72898, a SQL injection vulnerability in the self-hosted Metabase tool, exposing user names, emails, usernames, and locations. Other significant vulnerabilities include Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday addressing 974 flaws including privilege escalation zero-days, and GitLab’s critical path traversal vulnerability CVE-2026-85706 allowing unauthenticated arbitrary file reads. MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities enabling passwordless SSH and privilege escalation were also fixed. The report includes AI threats involving prompt evasion and sandbox escapes. Check Point IPS provides protections for several mentioned vulnerabilities. The report does not specify affected versions for CVE-2026-72898. No CVSS score is provided for this vulnerability.
OffSeq internet scanning found CVE-2026-72898 on 3 exposed hosts in the last 30 days. OffSeq honeypots have not recorded in-the-wild exploitation of this CVE in the current window — this page tracks its exposure footprint and status; if exploitation begins, the live honeypot signal will appear here.
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