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What changed in AI security, Aug 31 to Sep 6, 2026

Aug 31 to Sep 6, 2026 (ISO week 2026-W36). Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC.

239 records published, +60 on the previous week: 60 vulnerabilities (-7), 0 incidents (-1), 14 research items (+12), 164 news items (+56), 1 policy item (no change).

Critical and high advisories

Vulnerability records rated critical or high, newest first. Showing 25 of 36.

Exploitation signals

Vulnerabilities published in the week that are listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog or have an EPSS score of 10% or more.
AdvisoryExploitationEPSSPublished
CVE-2026-49869: Kestra OSS OS Command Injection Vulnerability
CVE-2026-49869CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Known exploited2.1%

Packages that began delegating to a language model

Exposure Registry packages whose first release declaring an LLM SDK, agent framework or MCP dependency was published in the week.
PackageEcosystemLLM SDKsReleaseReleased
browser-harnessPyPIModel Context Protocol SDK0.1.11
sgl-evalPyPIHugging Face Hub / Transformers, OpenAI SDK0.1.0

Topics that moved

Largest increases over the mean of the 4 previous weeks, for topics with at least 3 records in the week.
TopicRecordsWeekly mean, previous 4Difference
AI agents2921.5+7.5
Adversarial machine learning40.5+3.5
Robotics and embodied AI30.8+2.3
Prompt injection and jailbreaks43.5+0.5

Research

Peer-reviewed first, then newest. Showing 8 of 14.

Policy and regulation

Newest first.

Generated from the AI Sec Watch database at . Every item links to its record.

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