AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours

An autonomous AI agent discovered four vulnerabilities in the decades-old, widely used EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) open source software toolkit, including a critical flaw that could allow remote attackers to execute code on systems used to control particle accelerators and fusion experiments. The bugs include a critical, 9.8-rated under CVSS v3.1 integer overflow vulnerability ( CVE-2026-114595 ), leading to an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds heap write and poten