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11 hours agoAI code scanners halt Internet Bug Bounty payouts
The Internet Bug Bounty program has paused new submissions due to AI-driven vulnerability discovery outpacing human researchers' rewards.
The most dangerous assumption in quality engineering right now is that you can validate an autonomous testing agent the same way you validated a deterministic application. When your systems can reason, adapt, and make decisions on their own, that linear validation model collapses.
"Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.178 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page."
Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular n8n open-source workflow automation platform allow escaping the confines of the environment and taking complete control of the host server. Collectively tracked as CVE-2026-25049, the issues can be exploited by any authenticated user who can create or edit workflows on the platform to perform unrestricted remote code execution on the n8n server. Researchers at several cybersecurity companies reported the problems, which stem from n8n's sanitization mechanism and bypass the patch for CVE-2025-68613, another critical flaw addressed on December 20.