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A critical vulnerability in Google's Brotli library, tracked as CVE-2026-111497, forced Microsoft, Node.js, and Python package maintainers to issue security updates. The bug allows unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary code via out-of-bounds writes, with a CVSS v4 score of 9.2. Microsoft released fixes on October 25 for.NET, Visual Studio, and PowerShell, while Node.js and Python packages were patched last week.
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