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Patch Race Exposure

The window between a fix shipping and attackers working the chain against unpatched, internet-facing servers.

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Attackers dump PaperCut databases through the freshly patched auth bypass chain

PaperCut shipped emergency fixes for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 on Thursday and Friday, and by the weekend Defused was watching honeypot intruders bypass authentication and read database tables instead of running code.

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Patch Race Exposure — Clarity Today