{
  "id": 5047778,
  "title": "Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/researchers-use-claude-to-port-pre-auth-rce-exploit-from-one-plc",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-02T07:47:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/researchers-use-claude-to-port-pre-auth.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server's handling of the USER command",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}