Total advisories: 864 ↑ (last month: 821).
Important conclusions from this month report are:
- Again a record breaking month, with 864 advisories being reported this month (May’23 : 856)
- 2022 was already the record-breaking year with the highest number of Secunia Advisories reported, however 2023 is shaping up to destroy that previous record since we are already 28.2% Year-to-date. (Last month YTD was 24.7%)
- Almost 52.2% of all vulnerabilities reported in this month have a “Remote Attack Vector” (last month 47.99%)
- The Secunia Research Team reported 11 Extremely critical advisories this month. (Last month: 1)
- 17 Zero-Day Advisories reported. (last month :5) Microsoft, Apple , Google and Adobe
- Over 1,892 unique CVE’s (last month: 1,491) were covered in the 864 Advisories.
- Threat Intelligence indicates again that Highly and Moderately Critical Vulnerabilities are targeted by hackers.
- More than half of all advisories are disclosed by these 4 usual suspect vendors (Amazon,Suse,Ubuntu,RedHat )
- Interestingly these vendors are also the ones with the most rejected advisories: (more than 50%)
- Amazon: 41 out of 131 advisories were rejected by the Secunia Research Team.
- Ubuntu : 13/131
- SUSE : 12/131
- RedHat : 9/131
- Cisco contributes to almost 51% of all Networking related Advisories this month.
Last month we reported that 70.52% of all Secunia Advisories had a Threat (exploits, malware, ransomware, etc.) associated with them, this month the number has been higher to 72.11%
