December 2008
530 CVEs published, +22% on November 2008 and +18% on December 2007. CISA added 0 to KEV.
2008 month by month
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | January 2008: 502 CVEs | February 2008: 539 CVEs | March 2008: 522 CVEs | April 2008: 459 CVEs | May 2008: 388 CVEs | June 2008: 438 CVEs | July 2008: 522 CVEs | August 2008: 374 CVEs | September 2008: 455 CVEs | October 2008: 543 CVEs | November 2008: 433 CVEs | December 2008: 530 CVEs | 5,705−22% |
- Critical
- 12924% of the 528 with a CVSS score
- Added to CISA KEV
- 0None of this month's own CVEs is in KEV yet
- Vendors
- 272409 products
- Top weakness
- SQL InjectionCWE-89 · 101 CVEs
Who drove it
Vendors by distinct CVEs this month, with how many of those CVEs are now in CISA KEV and how far each moved in the ranking.
- 1MicrosoftInternet Explorer, Office, Open Xml File Format Converter3921nonenew
- 2SunJdk, Jre, Sdk3613nonenew
- 3IBMRational Clearquest, Websphere Application Server, Aix173nonenew
- 4AppleMac OS X Server, Mac OS X, Cups157nonenew
- 5MozillaFirefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird151nonenew
- 6CanonicalUbuntu Linux111nonenew
- 7DebianDebian Linux, Shadow111nonenew
- 8ActivewebsoftwaresActivevotes, Active Force Matrix, Active Membership100nonenew
- 9TYPO3TYPO3, Wir Ber Uns Extension, Eluna Page Comments Extension101nonenew
- 10LinuxLinux Kernel70nonenew
- 11OperaOpera Browser, Opera62nonenew
- 12AdobeAir, Flash Player, Acrobat51nonenew
- 13AspappsAsp Autodealer, Aspportal, Aspticker50nonenew
- 14Gentoo Foundation Inc.Gentoo Linux50nonenew
- 15MediawikiMediawiki50nonenew
- 16NetcatNetcat50nonenew
- 17PHPPHP51nonenew
- 18EsetNOD32 Antivirus, Smart Security42nonenew
- 19E-topbizOnline Store, Number Links 1 PHP Script, Domain Shop40nonenew
- 20MyiosoftEasybookmarker, Easycalendar40nonenew
- 21Scripts4youClean CMS, Faq Manager40nonenew
- 22SymantecBackup Exec For Windows Server, Antivirus, Norton Internet Security 200843nonenew
- 23TextpatternTextpattern40nonenew
- 24Сообщество Свободного Программного ОбеспеченияDebian Gnu/linux40nonenew
- 25AlstrasoftArticle Manager Pro, Web Email Script Enterprise, Webhost Directory31nonenew
Severity
How this month's CVEs score on CVSS; 2 have no score yet. Severity is not exploitation.
- Critical129
- High176
- Medium214
- Low9
Breakouts
Vendors with at least three times their own 12-month median.
New in the top 100
Not in the top 100 in any of the 24 months before.
What kind of weakness
Weakness classes (CWE) by distinct CVEs, with how far each moved in the ranking.
- CWE-89SQL Injection101
- CWE-39957
- CWE-20Improper Input Validation50
- CWE-79XSS48
- CWE-26446
- CWE-119Memory Buffer Bounds44
- CWE-5925
- CWE-22Path Traversal23
- CWE-94Code Injection23
- CWE-18915
- CWE-200Information Exposure14
- CWE-287Improper Authentication14
- CWE-352CSRF10
- CWE-2557
- CWE-3106
- CWE-163
- CWE-319Cleartext Transmission2
- CWE-362Race Condition2
- CWE-78OS Command Injection2
- CWE-134Format String1
Where it landed
The month's CVEs by the sector of the software they affect. A CVE that touches several sectors counts in each.
- Web & CMS Plugins13124% of sector-tagged CVEs
- Operating Systems11120% of sector-tagged CVEs
- Security Products519% of sector-tagged CVEs
- Enterprise Software397% of sector-tagged CVEs
- Consumer Software387% of sector-tagged CVEs
- OSS Libraries275% of sector-tagged CVEs
- Communications234% of sector-tagged CVEs
- 7 smaller sectors57
- Not yet classified65
Which weakness, where
The top weakness classes against the vendors and the sectors that carried them.
The lighter the cell, the more CVEs. Point at one to read it.
| By vendor | 89SQL Injection | 399 | 20Improper Input Validation | 79XSS | 264 | 119Memory Buffer Bounds | 59 | 22Path Traversal | 94Code Injection | 189 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 18 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Sun | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| IBM | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| Apple | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Mozilla | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Canonical | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Debian | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Activewebsoftwares | 10 | |||||||||
| TYPO3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Linux | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Opera | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Adobe | 2 | 1 | 1 |