The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, releasing the 2023 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses. Why is this important? Here’s why:
Often easy to find and exploit, these can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to completely take over a system, steal data, or prevent applications from working.
In short, you need to pay attention to this list so that if you have exposure to these weaknesses, you can take the required actions to protect yourself.
Joe Saunders, CEO, RunSafe Security had this to say:
“As the Top 25 shows, memory-based exploits remain the most devastating weaknesses in software and account die the most known exploits targeting weaknesses. We must defend against these memory-based exploits or adversaries will be able to take down our critical infrastructure. It’s imperative to prevent attackers from exploiting memory-based weaknesses in software which are the most dangerous vulnerabilities with the most numerous known exploits targeting systems today.
These results are consistent with CISA Director Jen Easterly’s call to solve memory-based weaknesses in code. The sad reality is we cannot afford any more years to go by without immunizing our critical infrastructure from such attacks. This list is no surprise: Not only do CISA and NSA know memory-based software weaknesses threaten our critical infrastructure, but so do our adversaries. We must achieve memory-safety now or China may disrupt the services we all take for granted, such as powering our facilities or distributing water.”
This is a good initiative. Thus we should all pay attention to this list so that our exposure to these vulnerabilities is reduced.
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2023 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses Released
The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, releasing the 2023 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses. Why is this important? Here’s why:
Often easy to find and exploit, these can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to completely take over a system, steal data, or prevent applications from working.
In short, you need to pay attention to this list so that if you have exposure to these weaknesses, you can take the required actions to protect yourself.
Joe Saunders, CEO, RunSafe Security had this to say:
“As the Top 25 shows, memory-based exploits remain the most devastating weaknesses in software and account die the most known exploits targeting weaknesses. We must defend against these memory-based exploits or adversaries will be able to take down our critical infrastructure. It’s imperative to prevent attackers from exploiting memory-based weaknesses in software which are the most dangerous vulnerabilities with the most numerous known exploits targeting systems today.
These results are consistent with CISA Director Jen Easterly’s call to solve memory-based weaknesses in code. The sad reality is we cannot afford any more years to go by without immunizing our critical infrastructure from such attacks. This list is no surprise: Not only do CISA and NSA know memory-based software weaknesses threaten our critical infrastructure, but so do our adversaries. We must achieve memory-safety now or China may disrupt the services we all take for granted, such as powering our facilities or distributing water.”
This is a good initiative. Thus we should all pay attention to this list so that our exposure to these vulnerabilities is reduced.
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