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Applications using MongoDB have a common pitfall of treating the ObjectId() function as cryptographically secure. Recently, we found Rocket.Chat, an open source Slack-like application, to be a victim of this. At Aikido, we run AI Pentests on various open source applications to test our agents and identify their strengths and improvement points. During the pentest, one of the agents reported that an unauthenticated Rocket.Chat user can access any uploaded file if they know its ID.

June 10th, we announced a critical vulnerability in phpBB that lets attackers bypass authentication, now known as CVE-2026-48611. This post is a follow-up, containing technical details that explain exploit scenarios and detection methods. To get you up to speed, phpBB is an old forum software that's still being used today by various technical communities. phpBB's Site Showcase alone has over 6 million members.

For two decades, “penetration testing” has meant the same thing: once a year, you hire a firm, a human tester spends a week or two on your systems, and you get a PDF. Most compliance frameworks were written around exactly that ritual, a slow, manual, point-in-time engagement. Software doesn’t ship once a year anymore. It ships many times a day.

Last week, GitHub released self-service credential revocation for Enterprise. The feature lets organization owners cut off compromised credentials across the entire organization in one action instead of trying to track down individual tokens during an active incident. This fix was a long time coming, as the past few months have shown what happens when revocation is slow or incomplete.

npm shipped a new protection this week for its most depended-on accounts. When npm detects a sensitive action on a high-impact account, like an email swap or the use of a 2FA recovery code, it puts that account into a 72-hour read-only state and sends an alert to the previous email address. The package installs and downloads keep working as normal during this time, and the freeze lifts automatically at the end of the waiting period.

On Jun 24, 2026, the codfish/semantic-release-action GitHub Action was compromised through an imposter commit attack. An attacker force-pushed two malicious commits into the repository and repointed sixteen tags to them, including the floating major version tags v2, v3, v4, and v5. Any workflow referencing the action by one of those tags will pull and run the attacker's code on its next CI run.

Maintainers, this is for you. We're partnering with Drydock so maintainers can see exactly what's inside a package before they approve it, catching malware before it ships instead of disclosing it after. Drydock lets you read the actual bytes of a staged release before it goes live, so bad versions get caught at approval rather than in a post-mortem. For npm and PyPI maintainers, Drydock is available at no cost.

On June 17th we detected a large-scale supply chain attack targeting the entire @mastra npm scope, a popular open-source AI agent framework. An attacker republished 141 packages in a burst between 01:15 and 02:00 UTC, silently injecting a malicious dependency into every one of them. The affected packages include @mastra/core, which has 918K weekly npm downloads, as well as mastra and create-mastra.

This week bore witness to some interesting events and milestones as Anthropic announced the availability of Claude Fable 5, a descendant of their Mythos Preview model, and Microsoft published their largest Patch Tuesday in history with over 200 vulnerabilities. The two are not unrelated.

TL;DR: Aikido now supports Docker Hardened Images. A scan that used to return hundreds of CVEs collapses to the handful that actually apply, because Docker's VEX attestations filter out everything they've verified as non-exploitable. Zero additional setup. Container security has a noise problem You scan a container image and get back a list of 50, 100, sometimes hundreds of CVEs. You open a few. Some look scary. Most are irrelevant. Some have already been patched by the image maintainer.