A WAF Is Not a Patch
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A web application firewall buys you time and visibility, but it does not remove the vulnerability. What a WAF and virtual patching can and cannot do, and what engineering teams still owe.
A web application firewall buys you time and visibility, but it does not remove the vulnerability. What a WAF and virtual patching can and cannot do, and what engineering teams still owe.
Two critical flaws in the PHP runtime, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Here is what the advisories and public reports say, how a WAF and layered controls help, and how to patch PHP and your Docker images.
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