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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for January 2020

Tripwire's January 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and Linux. Exploit Alert: Metasploit Up first on the Patch Priority Index this month are vulnerabilities that have been recently added to Metasploit. Two vulnerabilities identified by CVE-2019-9213 and CVE-2018-5333 affect the...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for December 2019

Tripwire's December 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Citrix, Microsoft, Django, and Adobe. Critical Vulnerabilities: Up first on the patch priority list this month is a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability for the Citrix ADC application. In particular, Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway (formerly...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for November 2019

Tripwire’s November 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle, Linux Kernel and Adobe. Exploit Alert: Metasploit First, on the patch priority list, this month are vulnerabilities that have been recently added to Metasploit. Two vulnerabilities, identified by CVE-2019-11539 and CVE-2019-11510 that...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for October 2019

Tripwire's October 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle, Linux Kernel and Adobe. Exploit Alert: Metasploit First on the patch priority list this month are vulnerabilities that have been recently add to Metasploit. CVE-2019-13272 is a Linux kernel vulnerability; proof-of-concept code capable...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for September 2019

Tripwire's September 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. Exploit Framework Alert A Metasploit Exploit module that targets Windows Remote Desktop Services has been recently released. This exploit module targets CVE-2019-0708 for the so-called “BlueKeep” vulnerability. This vulnerability...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for August 2019

Tripwire's August 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important security vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the Patch Priority Index are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 12 vulnerabilities including fixes for memory corruption, information disclosure and security feature bypass...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2019

Tripwire's July 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Oracle. First on the list for July are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 11 vulnerabilities including fixes for Memory Corruption weaknesses. Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Excel and Office....
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for June 2019

Tripwire's June 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe. First and most importantly this month are patches available to resolve 2 deserialization vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic. These vulnerabilities are identified as CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2019-2729. Both of these vulnerabilities...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for May 2019

Tripwire's May 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First and most importantly this month are the patches available to resolve the BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) Remote Desktop Services remote code execution vulnerability. As noted by Microsoft: [This] remote code execution vulnerability exists...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for April 2019

Tripwire's April 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 13 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Browser Tampering, and Information Disclosure...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for March 2019

Tripwire's March 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities for March 2019. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Browser, Scripting Engine and VBScript. These patches resolve 23 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Elevation of Privilege, Security Feature Bypass and...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for February 2019

Tripwire's February 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 23 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Elevation of Privilege, Spoofing, Security Feature...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for January 2019

Tripwire's January 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve six vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Elevation of Privilege and Remote Code...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for December 2018

Tripwire's December 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve nine vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption and Remote Code Execution (RCE)...
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Getting Creative with your Vulnerability Management Strategy

You don’t have to look hard to find organizations utilizing a small fraction of the capabilities of a vulnerability management tool. Often, that’s because the focus is on meeting a compliance obligation. For example, PCI DSS 3.2.1 says, “11.2.1 – Perform quarterly internal vulnerability scans.” It’s difficult to learn the capabilities of a tool running...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for November 2018

Tripwire's November 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Edge and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 13 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Elevation of Privilege (EoP), Spoofing...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for October 2018

Tripwire's October 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from libssh, Microsoft and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month is an authentication bypass vulnerability in libssh. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely, and exploit code has recently been added to Metasploit. Next are patches for Microsoft...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for September 2018

Tripwire's September 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Edge and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 18 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Elevation of Privilege, Information Disclosure, Memory...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for August 2018

Tripwire's August 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Edge, and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 21 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Remote Code Execution, Elevation of Privilege, Information...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2018

Tripwire's July 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Edge and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 22 vulnerabilities, including fixes for security feature bypass, information disclosure, and memory...