Open Source Security Risks Continue to Rise

Eighty-six percent of commercial codebases contain vulnerabilities, with 81% harboring high-or-critical-risk vulnerabilities, new research from Black Duck has revealed.   The 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report drives home the massive risk posed by outdated and unmonitored open-source…

Progress WhatsUp Gold Path Traversal Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Remote code Execution

A newly disclosed path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-4885) in Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution has raised alarms across the cybersecurity community. Rated as critical, this flaw enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems by exploiting improper…