--- title: This Week In Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, And A... description: A weekly security roundup covering: a Docker authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-34040) that allows empty request bodies to circumvent auth plugins;... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-security-docker-auth-windows-tools-and-a-very-full-patch-tuesday-sn93vwlmz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Week In Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, And A Very Full Patch Tuesday | daily.dev og:description: A weekly security roundup covering: a Docker authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-34040) that allows empty request bodies to circumvent auth plugins;... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-security-docker-auth-windows-tools-and-a-very-full-patch-tuesday-sn93vwlmz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sN93VWlmZ.png og:image:alt: This Week In Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, And A Very Full Patch Tuesday og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Week In Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, And A Very Full Patch Tuesday **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly security roundup covering: a Docker authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-34040) that allows empty request bodies to circumvent auth plugins; compromise of CPU-Z and HWMonitor download sites distributing malware; X.Org and XWayland security updates fixing memory issues; OpenSSL 4.0 release with Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support; a Rockstar Games breach via Snowflake/Anodot supply chain; a Linux Kernel 7.0 out-of-bounds certificate handling fix; NIST announcing it will stop enriching most CVE entries in the NVD due to funding constraints; and a record-breaking Microsoft Patch Tuesday with over 160 security updates including a fix for the publicly known Bluehammer Windows Defender bypass. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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