Back-to-back N-able bugs send admins on a patching spree

A max-severity zero-day bug could be affecting cybersecurity firm N-able’s N-central remote monitoring and management platform, the company said, even as administrators were applying a hotfix for two vulnerabilities disclosed just a day earlier. The latest flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86218 , is a remote code execution bug that can give an attacker access to an N-central server without authentication. Through its incident page , the company said the new vulnerability is unrelated to the two flaws d