For Fuck’s Sake: CISA Adds Two More Roundcube Holes to Patch

Oh joy. Just when I thought this week couldn’t get any more shit-filled, CISA drops two more “actively exploited” Roundcube vulnerabilities into their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Because apparently, managing the fifty-seven other critical patches on my plate wasn’t quite enough of a migraine.

The two culprits—CVE numbers too long to give a fuck about—include a cross-site scripting flaw that lets attackers steal credentials faster than a caffeine-addled intern leaks passwords, and a remote code execution bug that basically hands the keys to your mailserver to any script-kiddie with a copy of Burp Suite and half a functioning brain cell. The bugs live in Roundcube’s attachment handling and its piss-poor template sanitization, which is what you get for trusting PHP software that looks like it was coded by a hungover student in 2003.

CISA, in their infinite bureaucratic wisdom, is now ordering federal agencies to patch this shitshow within 21 days. That’s three weeks for the sort of people who need a committee meeting and a risk assessment to change their fucking desktop wallpaper. The rest of us with actual jobs will have it done by lunchtime, assuming management doesn’t schedule an “emergency” two-hour standup about synergy.

The best part? Patches dropped months ago. That’s right—if you’re affected, you’re not a victim; you’re a volunteer. You’re the sort of person who thinks “planned maintenance window” means “never” and that security is just something those paranoid bastards in the basement worry about. Well, now those basement bastards are the only reason you still have a fucking job.

So do yourself a favor: Stop reading this, fire up your terminal, and patch your goddamn Roundcube before I have to come over there with a cattle prod and a termination form. Because if I see one more compromised mailserver churning out Viagra spam because some muppet couldn’t be arsed to run `apt-get update`, I’m going to start answering the abuse@ emails with their home address and photo.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/cisa-adds-two-actively-exploited.html

Related anecdote: Last month some luser complained their webmail was “acting weird.” Found their Roundcube instance had been turned into a phishing platform for Russian scammers. When I asked when they last updated, they said “We have a policy to wait six months for stability.” I explained their new policy is now “unemployment insurance” and showed them the door. Their replacement patched everything in their first hour. Funny how that works.

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