Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2020
Summary: Cisco Talos' Systems Vulnerability Research Team discovered 231 vulnerabilities in fiscal year 2020, publishing 231 advisories that resulted in 277 CVEs across operating systems, IoT devices, Microsoft Office products, browsers and PDF readers. Talos credits vendor partners with patching and publishing the vulnerabilities before any attackers could exploit them, and reports a marked increase in both advisories and assigned CVEs from 2019.
Key Takeaway: Talos frames each vulnerability it addresses as an opportunity lost for attackers, and notes that even vendors with large security teams make mistakes while many have none - so the 277 CVEs patched before exploitation depended on coordinated disclosure working, not on software being bulletproof.
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