Vulnerabilities
We've curated 342 cybersecurity statistics about Vulnerabilities to help you understand how software weaknesses and system flaws are being exploited by cybercriminals in 2025. This insight can guide you in fortifying your defenses effectively.
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46% of organisations still struggle with cloud vulnerability management.
96% of organisations conduct regular cloud vulnerability assessments.
Top challenges in managing cloud vulnerabilities include Budget constraints (35%), Integrating vulnerability management with existing workflows (34%), and Lack of skilled personnel (32%).
Recent research from Wiz highlights 6 known vulnerabilities with the underlying AI providers themselves.
A vulnerability in the Irish Government COVID-19 Vaccination Portal, present since December 2021, was disclosed in March 2024 and exposed the vaccination records of approximately one million residents.
27% of assets hosted by Azure were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.
Assets hosted by Azure showed 0.07% with critical vulnerabilities.
10% of assets on hosting providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure had easily exploitable vulnerabilities. This compares to 5 percent hosted on Google Cloud with easily exploitable vulnerabilities and just 2 percent on AWS and Azure with easily exploitable vulnerabilities.
25% of developers report being overwhelmed by the volume of vulnerabilities.
Assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues were found across all cloud providers.
AWS showed the lowest rate for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues at 0.02%.
Assets hosted by cloud providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure showed approximately 10 times higher rates of critical vulnerabilities compared to AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Alternative cloud and hosting providers showed rates ten times higher than AWS for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues
Assets hosted by AWS and Google Cloud showed 0.04% with critical vulnerabilities.
38% of assets hosted by Google Cloud were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration. This rate for Google Cloud was over 2.5x more than assets hosted by AWS.
Critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or higher) were detected on assets hosted by all cloud providers, though uncommon.
15% of assets hosted by AWS were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.
Total number of software vulnerabilities grew by 61% year-over-year (YoY) in 2024.
Linux vulnerabilities soared by 967% in 2024.
macOS vulnerabilities increased by 95% in 2024.