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Total vulnerabilities maintain 4-year holding pattern near record highs while Elevation of Privilege holds place as top vulnerability category.
Atlanta, GA – April 22, 2024 – BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the release of the 2024 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. Produced annually by BeyondTrust, this report analyzes data from security bulletins publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year and provides valuable information to help organizations understand, identify, and address the risks within their Microsoft ecosystems.
Each Microsoft Security Bulletin is comprised of one or more vulnerabilities, which apply to one or more Microsoft products. Microsoft typically groups vulnerabilities into these main categories: Remote Code Execution (RCE), Elevation of Privilege (EoP), Information Disclosure, Denial of Service (DDoS), Spoofing, Tampering, and Security Feature Bypass.
Comprehensive report breaks down CVEs and key shifts in vulnerability trends
This year’s edition of the report also assesses how vulnerabilities are being leveraged in identity-based attacks, spotlighting some of the most significant CVEs of 2023 (9.0+ CVSS severity scores).
Highlights and key findings
Total and critical vulnerabilities demonstrated some of the most consistent data, year over year, since this report’s debut, a strong indicator that overall long-term security efforts are paying off. This may also reflect that attackers are increasingly re-focusing their efforts on exploiting identities, rather than Microsoft software vulnerabilities.
“This report continues to highlight the need to keep improving security, not only at Microsoft, but also for all organizations who are looking to better manage cyber risks in the context of an evolving threat landscape,” said James Maude, Director of Research at BeyondTrust. “This year’s report was a prime illustration of the modern identity threat landscape. The continued domination of Elevation of Privilege as the most common category of vulnerability, and the identity crisis highlighted at the end of the report, underscore the importance of privilege and the timeless security concept of least privilege. It also emboldens BeyondTrust’s mission to provide the broadest level of visibility and protection of paths to privilege.”
Detailed analysis predicts the future of Microsoft vulnerabilities
Despite overall stability in the Microsoft vulnerabilities data, the report’s analysis of critical vulnerabilities and innovative threat tactics predict now is not the time to get complacent:
Despite predicting an increase in the volume and sophistication of identity-based attacks, this year’s report shows once again that long-standing, foundational security principles like least privilege will continue to offer the best line of defense—even against modern threats—and that the organizations who successfully pair preventative security controls with threat detection and response will continue to be much better poised to withstand tomorrow’s threats.
The 2024 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report can be found here.
BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, enabling organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access. We offer the only platform with both intelligent identity threat detection and a privilege control plane that delivers zero-trust based least privilege to shrink your attack surface and eliminate security blind spots.
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