December 2016

527 CVEs published, −7% on December 2015. CISA added 0 to KEV.

2016, month by month. Point at another month to read it.

2016: CVEs published per month
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year total
2016	January 2016: 670 CVEs	February 2016: 394 CVEs	March 2016: 333 CVEs	April 2016: 661 CVEs	May 2016: 617 CVEs	June 2016: 515 CVEs	July 2016: 789 CVEs	August 2016: no snapshot	September 2016: 597 CVEs	October 2016: 697 CVEs	November 2016: no snapshot	December 2016: 527 CVEs	5,80010 of 12 months10/12

Critical: 6012% of the 517 with a CVSS score
Added to CISA KEV: 04 of this month's CVEs are in KEV, listed a median 1917.5 days after publication
Vendors: 127381 products
Top weakness: Memory Buffer BoundsCWE-119 · 67 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.

Severity

How this month's CVEs score on CVSS; 10 have no score yet. Severity is not exploitation.

Critical6012%
High21441%
Medium24147%
Low20%

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.

Where it landed

The month's CVEs by the sector of the software they affect. A CVE that touches several sectors counts in each.

Area is CVEs this month. Point at a sector to read it.

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.

December 2016: weakness classes by vendor and by sector: By vendor
By vendor	119Memory Buffer Bounds	79XSS	200Information Exposure	20Improper Input Validation	264	125Out-of-bounds Read	476NULL Pointer Dereference	284Improper Access Control	787Out-of-bounds Write	416Use After Free
Phpmyadmin		5	11	6	1
Qemu	1		3	1		2	3		2	2
Microsoft	12	3	6	2	3	6
Debian	1		2	1		1	3		2	1
Cisco	1	4	3	7	5
Tats	16					1	12
Adobe	3	6	3						8	7
Packagist		3	4	3
Open-xchange		15	3
Google	2	2	3	5	2	1		3		4
VMware	5	1	2		3		2
Adobe Systems Inc.	2								8	7

CVEs published in December 2016

9 vulnerabilities from this month that were exploited in the wild (CISA KEV), covered in the news, explained on cve.tools or searched for. Known-exploited first, then by CVSS.