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Emerging Security Issue: HashiCorp Vault SSH CVE-2024-7594

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 1, 2024

CVE-2024-7594 is a severe unrestricted authentication issue affecting HashiCorp’s Vault’s SSH secrets engine, specifically Vault Community Edition versions 1.7.7-1.17.5 and Vault Enterprise versions 1.7.7-1.17.5, as well as 1.16.9 and 1.15.14. HashiCorp has released patches for CVE-2024-7594 and organizations can mitigate vulnerable instances by setting the SSH secrets engine valid_principals field to a non-empty value. CyCognito is investigating methods to deploy to actively detect this vulnerability, but more information about this issue is available to users in the CyCognito platform.



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Emerging Security Issue: SolarWinds Web Help Desk CVE-2024-28987

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 30, 2024

CVE-2024-28987 is a critical (CVSS v3 score: 9.1) hardcoded credential vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) software. Organizations can patch this vulnerability by upgrading to version 12.8.3 HF2. CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect CVE-2024-28987 and customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of September 29th, 2024.



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Emerging Security Issue: Progress Software WhatsUp Gold (CVE-2024-6670)

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 27, 2024

CVE-2024-6670 is an actively exploited critical (CVSS v3 score: 9.8) SQL injection vulnerability affecting Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold network monitoring tool. CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect vulnerable versions of Progress Software WhatsUp Gold and all customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of September 27th, 2024.



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Defensive Playbook: Understanding New Trends in External Risk with CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 23, 2024

CyCognito just published our 2024 State of External Exposure Management Report. In this report, we looked at where serious issues hide on the average attack surface, how basic protections can help (or fail to) protect critical assets, and the ways that deprioritizing issues can help security teams spend their time on the right vulnerabilities.



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Emerging Security Issue: SonicWall SSLVPN (CVE-2024-40766)

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 10, 2024

CVE-2024-40766 is a critical (CVSS v3 score: 9.3) access control flaw affecting SonicWall firewall devices that attackers are actively exploiting to deliver ransomware. CyCognito discovery and testing engines detect all assets running SonicWall SonicOS products and leverage multiple tests to services of the vulnerable product and versions. All customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of September 10th, 2024.



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Web Application Security Testing: Struggles, Shortfalls and Solutions

Graham-Rance
By Graham Rance
Interim Head of Sales Engineering
June 3, 2024

A survey of cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. and U.K. reveals challenges in web application security testing. Key findings include extensive attack surfaces due to numerous in-house and third-party applications, frequent security incidents, concerns about the effectiveness of existing tools, and inadequate testing coverage. Additionally, over half of respondents struggle to remediate discovered vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the need for improved web application security testing strategies.



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The Biggest Security Nightmares from 2023 and How They Could Ruin Your 2024

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
May 15, 2024

CyCognito shares insights showing how security teams can learn from previous incidents and leverage exposure management techniques to stay ahead of attackers.



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Emerging Security Issue: Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect PAN-OS Software CVE-2024-3400

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 16, 2024

Palo Alto Networks announced the discovery of CVE-2024-3400. CyCognito has informed affected customers of potentially affected assets.



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Emerging Security Issue: Ivanti Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 24, 2024

Two security issues affecting the popular Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure remote access SSL VPN systems can be chained together to give unauthenticated attackers remote access to critical systems. CyCognito’s active testing protects our current customers and delivers key insights about these vulnerabilities in the CyCognito platform.



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This Holiday Shopping Season, Your Attack Surface is Open for Business

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 21, 2023

Cyber Monday is right around the corner and millions of consumers will flock to ecommerce websites in search of the best deals. But can shoppers be assured that the sites they do business with are secure and compliant? Before and during the holiday shopping season, retailers need to ensure that ecommerce websites with missing WAFs, cryptographic vulnerabilities, or easily exploited critical issues.




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State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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