Vulnerability Trends June 2020

ObaidaAlsulaiman

Obaida Al-Sulaiman, Information Security Manager at ScanTitan,

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Archived reportThis digest covers June 2020 and is kept for reference. The details were accurate when it was published and have not been updated. For current data, see our vulnerability statistics report and the research library. You can also download the original report as a PDF.

As part of our monthly vulnerability trends, this report shows the monthly top 10 trends on security vulnerabilities and how hackers, malware, and exploit kits are exploiting those vulnerabilities. To demonstrate, we assign vulnerability trends value as a percentage of how each vulnerability is significantly gaining the attention of cyber security communities, attackers, together with malware. In either case, companies can benefit from the report to have more cyber threat insights and relatively anticipate attacks wave that might target their public assets in the following months.

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The following chart shows the trends.

In June 2020, we see that the information security community pays more attention, again, to Microsoft published vulnerabilities as CVE-2020-1206, dubbed as SMBleed, gained most trends. This vulnerability gained almost 25% of overall May trends.

The next in line is the critical, not yet exploitable, PaloAlto, CVE-2020-2021, authentication bypass in SAML. Although it is published at the end of June, it got more security community attentions.

The following table shows the details of the trends.

CVEVulnerabilityPublish DateExploitedTrends*
CVE-2020-1206SMBleed Information Disclosure in SMBv309/06/2020Yes25%
CVE-2020-2021PaloAlto Firewall Authentication Bypass29/06/2020No16%
CVE-2020-1301SMBLost Remote Code Execution in SMBv109/06/2020Yes16%
CVE-2020-13777GnuTLS Insecure Session Tickets (TLS 1.2 & 1.3)04/06/2020Yes9%
CVE-2020-9859Privilege Escalation in Apple iOS and MacOS05/06/2020Yes8%
CVE-2020-0543CrossTalk Information Disclosure in Intel CPUs09/06/2020Yes8%
CVE-2020-1170Elevation of Privilege in Windows Defender09/06/2020Yes7%
CVE-2020-3342RCE in Webex Meetings Desktop App17/06/2020No5%
CVE-2020-1299LNK Remote Code Execution in Windows09/06/2020Yes3%
CVE-2020-5410Directory Traversal in Spring Cloud Config Server02/06/2020No3%

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Information Security Manager · Dubai, UAE · 12+ years InfoSec experience

Obaida specialises in web application security, vulnerability management, and external attack surface reduction for SMB and mid-market organisations. All ScanTitan content is reviewed against live scan findings before publication.

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