The number of new software vulnerabilities discovered by
Flexera in 2017 reached nearly 20,000 – an all-time high.
The firm’s Secunia Research division monitors more than 55,000 applications, appliances and operating systems to gain valuable insight into the level of potential risk organizations are exposing themselves to.
Its
Vulnerability Review 2018 revealed an increase in software flaws of 14% – up from 17,147 in 2016 to 19,954 last year. Some 17% were rated as “highly critical,” although this figure was largely unchanged from the previous year.
As per the previous year, the primary attack vector used to trigger a vulnerability was via a remote network (55%), followed by a local network (32%).
