Weekly Threat & Lab Roundup: NGINX Rift, Exim Dead.Letter, PAN-OS IKEv2 RCE, Patch Tuesday 137 CVEs, and Pupy Python 3 Migration Milestone

This week proves that old vulnerabilities never die — they just wait for someone to look. NGINX Rift is an 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in the rewrite module that delivers RCE, discovered by an autonomous code analysis system. Exim’s Dead.Letter achieves unauthenticated remote code execution through a use-after-free triggered by a single stray byte in GnuTLS. Palo Alto ships a second PAN-OS RCE in two weeks — this time in IKEv2 processing. Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday delivers 137 CVEs including critical Windows Netlogon and DNS overflows. And GreenPlasma (SB2026051378) continues Chaotic Eclipse’s disclosure campaign with a ctfmon.exe section hijack that escalates standard users to SYSTEM on Windows 11. Meanwhile in the lab, Pupy C2 completed its Python 3 migration, Nextcloud got a major version upgrade, Tailscale funnel replaced port forwarding for Plex remote access, and Max’s weekly audit found critical firewall gaps across two homelab hosts. ...