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What Over 2 Million Assets Reveal About Industry Vulnerability
By Zohar Venturero
Data Scientist
July 15, 2025
We analyzed more than two million internet-exposed assets across cloud, on-prem, APIs, and web apps, discovered by our platform over the past 18 months. Using attacker-simulated testing, including black-box pentesting, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and active vulnerability scanning, we mapped how exploitable exposures cluster by industry and asset type. The results reveal systemic weaknesses in how organizations govern their digital perimeter, especially in environments shaped by rapid growth, third-party dependencies, and fragmented ownership.
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And The Cloud Goes Wild: Looking at Vulnerabilities in Cloud Assets
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
May 20, 2025
Cloud assets are increasingly vulnerable, now accounting for one-third of all easily exploitable security issues. Organizations using multi-cloud environments—especially outside the major providers—face significantly higher exposure to both critical and easily exploitable risks. To manage this growing threat, businesses need full visibility into their external attack surfaces and should adopt proactive, automated platforms like CyCognito to detect and remediate vulnerabilities quickly.
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Emerging Threat: SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer CVE-2025-31324
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 28, 2025
On April 24, 2025, SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, a critical vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) in the Metadata Uploader of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.50, which is actively exploited. SAP released a patch, with details limited to customers, alongside other mitigation options. CyCognito has deployed detection tests and provides customers with asset lists to assess and validate remediation efforts.
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Emerging Threat: Ivanti CVE-2025-22457
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 7, 2025
CVE-2025-22457 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (CVSS 9.0) in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways, enabling unauthenticated remote code execution via a crafted X-Forwarded-For header. It has been actively exploited by espionage group UNC5221 and is listed in CISA’s KEV catalog. Patches are available for most affected products, but legacy Pulse Connect Secure devices require migration, and customers are advised to monitor for signs of compromise.
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Emerging Threat: Next.js CVE-2025-29927
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
March 27, 2025
CVE-2025-29927 is a critical authorization vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) in self-hosted Next.js applications using middleware, allowing attackers to bypass security checks with a crafted x-middleware-subrequest header. It affects versions 11.1.5 to 15.2.2, with patches available in newer releases. While there are no active exploits reported as of March 27, 2025, CyCognito has issued guidance to help organizations assess and mitigate exposure.
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Emerging Threat: PAN-OS CVE-2025-0108
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
February 18, 2025
On February 12, 2025, Palo Alto Networks announced CVE-2025-0108, a high severity (8.8) authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS management web interface. This issue has a public PoC and is being actively exploited. CyCognito published an emerging threat advisory on this vulnerability within the CyCognito platform.
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Emerging Threat: Fortinet CVE-2024-55591
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 16, 2025
On January 14, 2025, Fortinet disclosed a new critical (CVSS 9.8) authentication bypass vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy. CVE-2024-55591 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to target the Node.js WebSocket module of the administrative interface and potentially gain super-admin privileges. CyCognito is helping customers identify assets vulnerable to CVE-2024-55591.
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Emerging Threat: Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 13, 2025
Ivanti disclosed two severe vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices. While both vulnerabilities involve similar buffer overflow mechanisms, only one allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and has been exploited in the wild. CyCognito customers can check their assets to identify if any are potentially vulnerable to these issues using filters available in the CyCognito dashboard.
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Emerging Threat: Windows LDAP CVE-2024-49113
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 8, 2025
CVE-2024-49113 is a high severity unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This vulnerability allows attackers to crash any unpatched Windows server with an internet-accessible DNS server by overwhelming a critical internal component of the operating system. Patching is recommended and vulnerable devices should be monitored for potential exploitation attempts.
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Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-3393
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
December 31, 2024
CVE-2024-3393 is a high severity Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting specific versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS DNS Security feature. CyCognito has shared lists of potentially affected assets running PAN-OS with affected customers alongside a notification in-platform.
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