Common Vulnerabilities

Addressing common vulnerabilities

Critical vulnerabilities are a major security concern. The moment such a vulnerability is discovered, notices and patches should be quickly worked on so that the damage is minimized. Vulnerabilities dealing with authentication and authorization are especially devastating; harvesting classified data from an organization’s system (and then releasing it to the public) often spells its doom. Therefore, it’s necessary to devise measures that ensure that even if a hacker gains access to a system, unless they perform stealthy privilege escalation, they won’t be able to perform decent recon or cause much harm.

A rigid user policy and MFA checks are often enough to deter less crafty attackers. Still, it’s important to know about certain attack vectors, so let’s take a look at them.

Broken authentication

This vulnerability becomes a serious possibility when ...