In recent years, the number and sophistication of zero-day vulnerabilities have surged, posing a critical threat to organizations of all sizes. A zero-day vulnerability is a security flaw in software that is unknown to the vendor and remains unpatched at the time of discovery. Attackers exploit these flaws before any defensive measures can be implemented, making zero-days a potent weapon for cybercriminals.
A recent example is, for instance, CVE-2024-0519 in Google Chrome: this high-severity vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild and involved an out-of-bounds memory access issue in the V8 JavaScript engine. It allowed remote attackers to access sensitive information or trigger a crash by exploiting heap corruption.
Also, the zero-day vulnerability at Rackspace caused massive trouble. This incident was a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in ScienceLogic’s monitoring application that led to the compromise of Rackspace’s internal systems. The breach exposed…