For sysadmins
You got handed the patch list. We do the triage.
Every morning the security team forwards a fresh KEV update and walks away. You’re the one who has to figure out what to do. PatchDayAlert reads the advisories first, calls each one, and lands in your inbox before standup.
You get the CVE triage cheat sheet, a one-page printable, in the welcome email. The weekly digest lands every Wednesday. Free, unsubscribe anytime.
What you get
- 01
Plain-English summary per CVE.
What’s broken, who’s at risk, how to check, what to patch. No CVSS jargon dumps.
- 02
One verdict per item.
Patch now, patch this week, track, or doesn’t apply. The verdict is the answer.
- 03
Exploited-in-wild flagged first.
CISA KEV updates sit at the top of the digest in red, ahead of high-CVSS items nobody’s actually attacking.
- 04
Around four minutes to read.
Short enough to clear before coffee. Long enough to be useful.
A sample of today’s digest
What today’s lead call looks like in your inbox.
A typical issue carries five to seven CVEs, one or two tagged Patch now, the rest sorted by urgency. The intro tells you the standout. The footer lists what didn’t make the cut.
An attacker can send a malicious Word document that triggers a heap buffer overflow, giving them code execution on the victim's machine over the network.
The call: Apply the latest Microsoft Office security update via Windows Update or the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Recent issues you could have triaged in five minutes:
Cisco email gateway RCE at 9.8, two Office buffer overflows, and a hardcoded JWT key
CVE-2026-76461 lets an unauthenticated attacker land root on Cisco Secure Email Gateway with a single poisoned email. PraisonAI ships a default JWT secret that hands over full impersonation. Microsoft Office and Windows Graphics both carry 8.8 heap/stack overflows. Firefox 156 fixes a DevTools sandbox escape.
PraisonAI's wide-open API lets attackers run OS commands, no auth required
CVE-2026-57125 (CVSS 9.8) is an unauth RCE in PraisonAI's Jobs API via crafted YAML. Also: two Zscaler Client Connector bugs on Android/ChromeOS (CVSS 8.1 each) and two GIMP heap overflows in PSP and ICO file loaders (CVSS 7.8).
IDM's kernel driver hands out SYSTEM, Orion Visor's hardcoded key leaks every credential
CVE-2026-90493 (CVSS 8.8) is a privilege escalation in Internet Download Manager's idmwfp.sys driver with a public exploit and no vendor response. CVE-2026-90510 (CVSS 8.3) exposes all stored host credentials in Orion Visor through a hardcoded encryption key. Plus unpatched SQLi in Feng Office and a certificate validation failure in Kalkitech ICS gear.
Get the cheat sheet and the digest
CVE triage for sysadmins in five minutes.
What to patch now. What can wait. What you can ignore.
- 01 The CVE triage cheat sheet, a one-page printable decision tree, in the welcome email.
- 02 The weekly digest, one email every Wednesday, around four minutes to read.
Free. Unsubscribe anytime.