KNOWLEDGE BASE

> The Key That Was Never Declared: Metabase and CVE-2026-72898

A CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated SQL injection in Metabase, exploited as a zero-day and in CISA KEV within eight days. Well-trodden ground by now — so this is the patch diff nobody ran, the docstring the vendor compiled into the jar, and the release the advisory gets wrong (25 min)

> The Header nginx Forgot: Chef Automate and CVE-2026-80462

A CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated privilege escalation in Chef Automate, recovered from two stripped Go binaries with no source. Every version-based way of checking whether you are affected is broken, so the detection rubric is the point (35 min)

> Sly Claude and the Silver Lie

An empirical study on social-engineering large language models for malware development, mapped to the jailbreak taxonomy that got named after the fact (12 min)

> Building Your Own CVE Database for Free

A practical guide to bulk-pulling CVE records from the NVD REST API v2.0 using PowerShell — date windowing, pagination, retry logic, and local catalog merging included.