SANS Stormcast Monday, October 26th, 2026: PHP2Shell Exploit Reliability; Node.js Brotli Decoder RCE (CVE-2026-111497); Tailscale "Tailworm" Vulnerabilities; HPE ArubaOS 8/10 Patches 72 Flaws
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In this episode: why a reliable PHP2Shell exploit is still hard to build, a Node.js Brotli decoder remote code execution flaw, publicly disclosed Tailscale mesh VPN vulnerabilities, and an HPE update fixing 72 vulnerabilities in ArubaOS 8 and 10. Reliable PHP2Shell Exploitability Bojan Zdrnja found that building a reliable, universal exploit for the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities is difficult: address space layout randomization (ASLR) requires a second leak to find the base address, a larger PHP memory limit makes exploitation harder, and the offsets depend on the exact PHP version and Linux…
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