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All posts by Saeed Abbasi

52 Posts

Saeed Abbasi
Head of Threat Research Unit (TRU), Director of Product, Qualys
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
October 20, 2026 - 22 min read

Two Critical PHP Flaws Could Hand Attackers Your Web Servers. Here’s How to Find, Mitigate, and Patch PHP2Shell Now

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
August 3, 2026 - 9 min read

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600) 

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
July 21, 2026 - 4 min read

CVE-2026-8933: Local Privilege Escalation in Set-Capabilities snap-confine

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
July 8, 2026 - 6 min read

When AI-Accelerated Discovery Outruns Patching, Exploitability Proof Decides What Gets Fixed First

Posted in Qualys Insights
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
May 22, 2026 - 9 min read

CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
May 19, 2026 - 4 min read

Inside the 2026 Verizon DBIR: What One Billion Records Revealed About Vulnerability Remediation

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
March 25, 2026 - 3 min read

Threat Research Report: The Broken Physics of Remediation

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
March 18, 2026 - 7 min read

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
May 22, 2026 - 14 min read

CrackArmor: Critical AppArmor Flaws Enable Local Privilege Escalation to Root

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
Saeed Abbasi
Saeed Abbasi
February 2, 2026 - 7 min read

Mutagen Astronomy: From Discovery to CISA Recognition—A Seven-Year Journey

Posted in Vulnerabilities and Threat Research
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