Avant Browser Had 206 Vulnerabilities Between May and July 2015

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IBM was the company with the most vulnerable products

Secunia, a professional provider of IT security solutions, published its quarterly Vulnerability Report, which ranks the top 20 most vulnerable products for the months of May, June, and July 2015.

Astonishingly, according to Secunia's research, during a period of only three months, the Avant Browser managed to top the vulnerability list with 206 reported vulnerabilities.

The reason for this security fiasco can be explained by two small, but very important details.

First the Avant Browser combines the Google Chrome and Firefox rendering engines in the same browser, meaning all the vulnerabilities in those two browsers also show up in Avant.

Secondly, the browser is usually updated sporadically, only a few times per year, meaning vulnerabilities for longer time spans are reported in a short window of time, around the release date.

IBM, shame on you!

While Avant browser may be the most vulnerable software product with 206 vulnerabilities, IBM is the company with the most vulnerable products.

According to Secunia's Vulnerability Report, during the three-month period of May, June, and July, over 9,225 vulnerabilities werediscovered, 2,211 of them being assigned to products that have reached the company's Top 20 Vulnerable Products list for each month.

These 9,225 vulnerabilities account for 1,993 vulnerable products.

Compared to last year, the number of vulnerabilities is down from 9,560, but Secunia observed a rise of extremely and highly critical vulnerabilities overall.

Below is the table for the Top 20 most vulnerable products in the month of July, when the Avant Browsers vulnerabilities were released. The other Top 20 lists for the months of May and June, along with other information, can be viewed by downloading Secunia's report.

Top 20 most vulnerable products in the month of July 2015

Vul Product

206 Avant Browser

140 IBM Flex System Manager Node (FSM)

91 Apple Macintosh OS X

50 Oracle Solaris 11

49 Microsoft Windows Server 2012

49 Microsoft Windows 8

47 Oracle Solaris 10

46 Microsoft Windows RT

43 Adobe Reader

43 Acrobat Reader

43 Google Chrome

42 IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack

40 HP System Management Homepage

39 Apple iTunes

36 Apple iOS

35 Adobe Flash Player

34 Adobe AIR

30 Oracle Secure Global Desktop

29 Microsoft Internet Explorer

28 Mozilla Firefox

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