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  • CVE-2025-31161: Previously linked to CVE-2025-2825, this flaw has been exploited in the wild for weeks and a ransomware group is threatening to extort victims. Patch as soon as possible.
  • CVE-2025-22457: Public exploit code has been released and exploitation activity has been reported by Ivanti. Immediate patching is recommended.
  • CVE-2024-48887: Fortinet products have routinely been targeted by attackers. While no evidence of exploitation has been found, Tenable Research is monitoring this CVE for exploit activity
  • CVE-2025-30065: Maximum severity flaw (CVSS 10.0) disclosed. Exploitation requires an attacker to trick a vulnerable system into reading a specially crafted file. Monitoring for PoC exploits.

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Research Insights

  • AI apps - getting pervasive


    As of Aug '24, EMEA ranked first with 22% of AI-related scans resulting in a detection while in APAC it was about 5% and the Americas stood at 18% of scans.

    Small organizations can easily see 100 detections while larger ones 30,000-plus a day!

  • Know your AI exposure


    During a 75-day period between late June and early September, Tenable found over 9 million instances of AI applications on more than 1 million hosts

    Check out our Tenable VM AI detections here

  • Tenable One Platform Research

    900 Million for Identity, 400 Million for OT, 16 Billion for WAS - data points used by Tenable researchers to cover exposures across the Tenable One Platform

  • Did you know?

    If a vulnerability is exploited / PoC exists, then that CVE is remediated 2.2x faster than those without known exploits, on average.

    Critical CVEs are remediated 33% more than the average CVE in the first week of patch availability

  • Scheduled patch releases help



    Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities are remediated 30% faster, on average, than other vulnerabilities, and reach about a 50% remediation rate around 20 days after Patch Tuesday each month

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April 10, 2025 Frequently Asked Questions About Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Integrating with AI for Agentic Applications
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April 1, 2025 ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run
March 26, 2025 Who's Afraid of AI Risk in Cloud Environments?
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Cyber Exposure Alerts

April 8, 2025 Microsoft’s April 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 121 CVEs (CVE-2025-29824)
March 24, 2025 CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-1974, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514: Frequently Asked Questions About IngressNightmare
March 13, 2025 DeepSeek Deep Dive Part 1: Creating Malware, Including Keyloggers and Ransomware
March 11, 2025 Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 56 CVEs (CVE-2025-26633, CVE-2025-24983, CVE-2025-24993)
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Webinars and Reports

Report: Tenable Cloud Risk Report 2024
Report: Auditing Pimcore Enterprise Platform
Report: 2024 Cloud Security Outlook - Navigating Barriers and Setting Priorities
Webinar: Tenable Cloud Security Outlook 2024
Report: How Generative AI Is Changing Security Research
Tenable 2022 Threat Landscape Report
Report: Managing Risk in the Metaverse
Report: Router Vulnerability Present for a Decade - Why IoT Supply Chain Is to Blame

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CVE-2024–8182 : Accidental Discovery of an Unauthenticated DoS
While reviewing some LLM related products with the team, we came across FlowiseAI.FlowiseAI is an open-source tool for building conversational AI appl…Joshua Martinelle
September 13, 2024
IoT firmware emulation and device fingerprinting challenges
Gathering information on a device could be tricky if you don’t have direct access to exposed services like SNMP, HTTP, FTP, or any other ports or pr…Gabriel Compan
August 6, 2024
Using conflicting objects in Active Directory to gain privileges
SummaryActive Directory (AD) uses a multi-master replication model to have a decentralized infrastructure. As long as one domain controller (DC) is up…Antoine Cauchois
July 31, 2024
Solidus — Code Review
Solidus — Code ReviewAs a Research Engineer at Tenable, we have several periods during the year to work on a subject of our choice, as long as …Joshua Martinelle
June 10, 2024
Stealthy Persistence with “Directory Synchronization Accounts” Role in Entra ID
SummaryThe “Directory Synchronization Accounts” Entra role is very powerful (allowing privilege escalation to the Global Administrator role) while…Clément Notin [Tenable]
June 3, 2024
WordPress : From vulnerability identification to compromising
WordPress Core is the most popular web Content Management System (CMS). This free and open-source CMS written in PHP allows developers to develop web …Joshua Martinelle
May 29, 2024
Another Path to Exploiting CVE-2024-1212 in Progress Kemp LoadMaster
IntroRhino Labs discovered a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the Progress Kemp LoadMaster. LoadMaster is a load balancer product…Ben Smith
April 2, 2024
Stealthy Persistence & PrivEsc in Entra ID by using the Federated Auth Secondary Token-signing Cert.
Exploiting Entra ID for Stealthier Persistence and Privilege Escalation using the Federated Authentication’s Secondary Token-signing CertificateSumm…Clément Notin [Tenable]
January 31, 2024

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