What's happened since October Patch Tuesday The weeks leading up to November Patch Tuesday gave defenders three clear tests of how fast they can move. PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) was exploited before PHP shipped fixes and reached CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on October 26. Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497) followed on October 27. Then SSHole (CVE-2026-123158), an OpenSSH authentication bypass that affects only specific configurations, was exploited within days of disclosure and added to KEV on November 9. Each had a different exposure profile, and the response had to start with the same question: are we running it, is it reachable, and is anyone exploit