<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017/11/no-shock-worst-year-for-vulnerabilities-already-only-through-q3-2017/">https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017/11/no-shock-worst-year-for-vulnerabilities-already-only-through-q3-2017/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Risk Based Security today announced the release of its <a href="https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017-q3-vulnerability-quickview-report">Q3 2017 VulnDB QuickView report</a>
that shows there have been 16,006 vulnerabilities disclosed through
September 30th this year. This is the highest number of disclosed
vulnerabilities at the end of the third quarter on record and represents
a 38% increase over the same period in 2016. In addition, cataloged
vulnerabilities in the first nine months of 2017 have exceeded the total
vulnerabilities for all of 2016 (15,832). The 16,006 vulnerabilities
cataloged by Risk Based Security’s VulnDB research team eclipsed the
total covered by the CVE and National Vulnerability Database (NVD) by
6,295. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“When hearing that so many
vulnerabilities are missing from CVE/NVD, most security professionals
want to justify the gap by trying to convince themselves that the
vulnerabilities missed can’t possibly impact their organization and if
they do they must be low risk. However, just as our previous reports
have indicated this isn’t the case. 44.1% – over 2,700 – of the
vulnerabilities not published by NVD/CVE have a CVSSv2 score between 7.0
and 10 which include widely deployed software used by many
organizations. Any security product or tool that relies on CVE/NVD is
putting your organization at serious risk.”, said Jake Kouns, Chief
Information Security Officer for Risk Based Security.<br></div><div dir="ltr">
<p>“As <a href="https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017/09/equifd-equifax-breach-response-off-to-a-rough-start/">Equifax</a>
dominated the data breach headlines, it was revealed that due to a
series of delays they were unable to patch the exploited flaw, now
commonly known as Struts-Shock, in a timely fashion. What the media
missed is that there have been a total of 75 vulnerabilities in Apache
Struts, and 5 new vulnerabilities since Struts-Shock was disclosed. It
makes you wonder if there were any other delays in correcting those
issues as well, and if Equifax has additional unpatched
vulnerabilities”, added Kouns.</p>
<p>The newly released 2017 Q3 2017
report from Risk Based Security shows that 39.9% of total reported
vulnerabilities received CVSSv2 scores above 7.0. This means that not
only is the number of vulnerabilities on the rise, but the severity of
the vulnerabilities disclosed remains high. What is more concerning for
organizations is that 31.6% of the vulnerabilities disclosed have public
exploits available and 47.9% can be exploited remotely.</p>
<p>The VulnDB QuickView report also
highlights the relationships between researchers and vendors, showing
that they are continuing to work together. Vulnerabilities disclosed in a
coordinated fashion continues to be around 43%, on par from the mid
year report. In addition, 6.1% of the vulnerabilities disclosed in
software products were coordinated through vendor and third-party bug
bounty programs.</p>
<p>“While our proprietary Vulnerability,
Timeline, and Exposure Metrics (VTEM) show that not all vendors are
prioritizing and fixing vulnerabilities as quickly as we would prefer,
the good news is that 75.8% of 2017 vulnerabilities through September do
have a documented solution”, says Kouns.</p>
<p><b>About the VulnDB QuickView Report</b></p>
<p>The <a href="https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017-q3-vulnerability-quickview-report">VulnDB QuickView report</a> is made possible through the research conducted by <a href="https://vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com/">Risk Based Security</a>.
It is designed to provide an executive level summary of the key
findings from RBS’ analysis of aggregated vulnerabilities disclosed in
2017. Contact Risk Based Security for any specific analysis of the 2017
vulnerabilities of specific interest to your organization..</p>
<p>You can get your copy of the 2017 Q3 2017 VulnDB QuickView Report here:</p>
<p><a href="https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017-q3-vulnerability-quickview-report">https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2017-q3-vulnerability-quickview-report</a></p><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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