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The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

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Assessed Severity: HIGH
Impacted Surface
Enterprise Data & Identity Stores
Intelligence Sector
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Analyst Takeaway

"I've been following a lot of (sometimes heated) threads and discussions lately about the current vulnerability landscape. I learned new words/phrases such as Summer of Hell (although I'm writing this with 1°C/34°F outside), Vulnpocalypse, Bugmageddon, Bugpocalypse, Breachpocalypse... Let's look at some numbers: We crossed the 70k mark, and it's only the end of September. This has never been seen..."

Recommended Defense & Mitigation

  • Access Review: Audit administrative roles, enforce phishing-resistant MFA, and review privilege escalations.
  • Credential Rotation: Rotate high-privilege service credentials and tokens associated with impacted services.
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The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. 

I've been following a lot of (sometimes heated) threads and discussions lately about the current vulnerability landscape. I learned new words/phrases such as Summer of Hell (although I'm writing this with 1°C/34°F outside), Vulnpocalypse, Bugmageddon, Bugpocalypse, Breachpocalypse... 

Let's look at some numbers:

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

We crossed the 70k mark, and it's only the end of September. This has never been seen before — I think we can agree this number is skyrocketing. Also, CVE numbering organically grew into the six-digit range. Check your tooling. Some might say we broke that barrier already in 2014 (CVE-2014-125110), or even hit seven digits in 2015 (CVE-2015-1000013), but those were allocated artificially. (History note: Before 2014, 9999 was the highest possible identifier.) 

So that could be seen as the apocalypse argument. On the other hand, we have the KEV numbers:

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

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