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Research

Emerging Threat: PAN-OS CVE-2025-0108

Emma-Zaballos
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.



Strategy

Security Risks in Internet-exposed SCADA in Manufacturing

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 10, 2025

As manufacturing enterprises adopt digital transformation, integrating SCADA with cloud-based solutions introduces serious cybersecurity risks. This case study highlights how a Fortune 500 manufacturer inadvertently exposed SCADA systems to the internet, making them vulnerable to attacks. Traditional security tools failed to detect these exposures due to blind spots in asset inventory and reliance on predefined IP ranges. By leveraging external exposure management, the company identified and remediated these risks before exploitation. This incident underscores the need for continuous attack surface monitoring, risk-based prioritization, and automated asset discovery to secure operational technology (OT) environments against emerging threats.



Research

Emerging Threat: Fortinet CVE-2024-55591

Emma-Zaballos
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.



Research

Emerging Threat: Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283

Emma-Zaballos
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.



Research

Emerging Threat: Windows LDAP CVE-2024-49113

Emma-Zaballos
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.



Research

Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-3393 

Emma-Zaballos
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.



Research

Emerging Threat: Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
December 19, 2024

CVE-2024-53677 is a critical (9.5) remote code execution(RCE) vulnerability affecting popular open-source framework Apache Struts. Affected organizations are encouraged to upgrade to Struts 6.4.0 or greater and/or migrate to the new file upload mechanism. This vulnerability is actively being exploited and poses significant danger to enterprise organizations in both the public and private sectors.



Strategy

Need to boost the value of your security budget in 2025? Here’s how.

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
December 16, 2024

This post guides CISOs and cybersecurity managers on maximizing testing value despite tight budgets. It defines security testing program value and provides examples of areas to reduce costs and increase effectiveness. A walkthrough for an organization using vulnerability scanning, app sec, manual pen testing, security ratings and bug bounties is included.



Research

​​Gift or Grift? How Retailers Can Combat Cyber Threats This Season

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 21, 2024

CyCognito examined an anonymized set of ecommerce assets collected from November 2023 to October 2024. While there is evidence of better security practices, some basic vulnerabilities and misconfigurations persist. Retailers need to take the time to make sure their ecommerce sites are keeping valuable PII and financial information safe.



Research

Emerging Threat: Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 & CVE-2024-9474

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 20, 2024

On November 18, 2024, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) disclosed two serious vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. Chained together, these vulnerabilities create the perfect conditions for pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE). CyCognito discovery and testing engines actively detect vulnerable assets and all customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of November 20th, 2024.




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State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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