"557 CVEs Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog in 2022"

There are nearly 900 vulnerabilities in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog maintained by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  According to researchers at VulnCheck, of the 900 vulnerabilities, 557 CVEs were added in 2022.  There were 311 vulnerabilities in the catalog at the beginning of 2022, and it reached 868 by the end of the year.  On average, more than ten exploited flaws were added to the KEV list every week in 2022.  Of the CVEs added to the list last year, 93 had a 2022 CVE identifier, which represents roughly two new actively exploited vulnerabilities per week.  The researchers stated that their analysis showed that 22 of the bugs added to the KEV last year were named vulnerabilities, including EternalBlue, Shellshock, Heartbleed, EskimoRoll, Dogwalk, SpoolFool, Dirty Pipe, ProxyNotShell, and Ripple20.  The vulnerabilities added by CISA to its catalog in 2022 impacted a wide range of products, but operating systems and IoT accounted for the highest percentages.  The researchers noted that more than one-third of the security holes added to the "must-patch" list in 2022 can be exploited for initial access.  CISA's KEV catalog does not provide any information on the types of attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities.  However, the researcher's report provides such information based on the company's own data.  The researchers said 241 of the 2022 additions had been exploited by threat actors (APTs), 122 by ransomware groups, and 69 by botnets.  The researchers have also analyzed how long it takes for a vulnerability to be added to CISA's KEV catalog, noting that it would be a mistake for organizations to treat it as an early warning system.  Ten of the flaws were added on the same day or even before a public exploit or exploitation details came to light, and 38 were added within a week.

SecurityWeek reports: "557 CVEs Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog in 2022"