PostgreSQL PostGREShell Flaw & Magento StyleSmuggler Zero-Day – Weekly News Roundup

Here are some of the top Cybersecurity news articles for the past week:

🌐 Google released Chrome version 152 updates to address 12 security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-85046, an actively exploited high-severity type confusion zero-day flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine.

https://www.securityweek.com/google-patches-6th-chrome-zero-day-of-2026/

🚨 Cybersecurity researchers disclosed “PostGREShell” (CVE-2026-6471), a 12-year-old vulnerability in PostgreSQL’s logical decoding that allows attackers with low-level replication credentials to achieve remote code execution and gain permanent superuser privileges.

https://www.securityweek.com/12-year-old-postgresql-vulnerability-enables-database-server-takeover/

⚠️ CERT Polska warned of active exploitation against internet-exposed SSH services on MikroTik devices running RouterOS via a two-vulnerability chain dubbed “MikroTrick,” granting remote attackers full administrative control without authentication.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-hijack-mikrotik-routers.html

πŸ”“ Attackers are actively exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability named “StyleSmuggler” across Magento and Adobe Commerce platforms to inject PHP code via the template system and deploy persistent Linux backdoors.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/magento-stylesmuggler-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-linux-backdoor/

πŸ’₯ Online education platform Mathspace disclosed a data breach impacting over 1.07 million students, staff, and parents after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its self-hosted Metabase reporting system to download internal database records.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mathspace-discloses-data-breach-affecting-over-1-million-people/

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