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2025 Year in Review: Building the Future of Security Operations

Arctic Wolf entered 2025 with momentum and a clear focus: advancing security operations in ways that deliver measurable outcomes for organizations facing an increasingly complex threat environment. As the year comes to a close, we’re building on that momentum — strengthening our platform, expanding globally, and laying the foundation for what comes next in 2026.

CVE-2025-14847: MongoBleed Information Disclosure Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

On December 19, 2025, MongoDB issued an advisory for CVE-2025-14847, known as “MongoBleed,” a high-severity vulnerability in the server’s zlib-based network compression functionality. This vulnerability affects how the database handles compressed network communications and can cause it to accidentally leak sensitive information from its memory when abused by unauthenticated threat actors. The problem occurs when MongoDB receives a specially crafted message.

CVE-2025-20393: Threat Campaign Targeting Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

On December 17, 2025, Cisco published an advisory detailing a new threat campaign identified on December 10, affecting the Cisco AsyncOS software used on Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager. The campaign is exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability, which only affects deployments with the Spam Quarantine feature enabled. It allows threat actors to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on affected devices. This feature is not enabled by default.

CVE-2025-14733: WatchGuard Firebox iked Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

On December 18, 2025, WatchGuard released fixes for CVE-2025-14733, a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange daemon (iked) process used to establish VPN tunnels in Fireware OS, which powers Firebox firewall appliances. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code. WatchGuard has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation in their advisory.

CVE-2025-40602: SonicWall Releases Fix for SMA1000 Privilege Escalation Zero-Day Under Active Attack

On December 17, 2025, SonicWall released fixes for an actively exploited medium-severity zero-day vulnerability in the SonicWall SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC), tracked as CVE-2025-40602. The vulnerability allows local threat actors to escalate privileges due to insufficient authorization in the SMA1000 AMC and does not affect SSL VPN functionality on SonicWall firewalls.

New Attack Technique "ConsentFix" Hijacks OAuth Consent Grants

On December 11, 2025, Push Security published research detailing a newly observed browser-based phishing technique called ConsentFix. The name ConsentFix is derived from its similarity to the previously documented ClickFix technique using fake CAPTCHA pages. ConsentFix, enables threat actors to gain cloud account access without capturing passwords, multifactor authentication (MFA) codes, or other credentials by abusing legitimate OAuth authentication and consent flows.

How To Reduce Risk This Holiday Season

The holiday season is traditionally a period of goodwill, gift giving, and time with loved ones, but if you are responsible for your enterprise’s cyber defenses it’s also a time when you should have a heightened awareness of cyber risk. Cybercriminals often treat this time of year as a prime opportunity to exploit the unprepared and unwary.

Arctic Wolf Observes Malicious SSO Logins on FortiGate Devices Following Disclosure of CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719

In December 12, 2025, Arctic Wolf began observing intrusions involving malicious SSO logins on FortiGate appliances. Fortinet had previously released an advisory for two critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719) on December 9, 2025. Arctic Wolf had also sent out a security bulletin for the vulnerabilities shortly thereafter.

The Howler Episode 25 - Susan Corcoran, Chief Accounting Officer

This month, we sit down with Susan Corcoran, Chief Accounting Officer, as she unpacks common misconceptions about accounting, takes us on her journey from Minnesota dairy farm to London then back to Minnesota, and so much more! With nearly two decades of experience, spanning Deloitte and United Health Group, Susan Corcoran has led everything from SEC reporting to global accounting strategy. Now she's steering Arctic Wolf's financial integrity and compliance at the highest level as Chief Accounting Officer.

How to Prevent Fileless and In-Memory Attacks with Aurora Endpoint Defense

See how Aurora Endpoint Defense prevents advanced memory and script-based attacks before they disrupt your business. Using Alpha AI, Aurora Endpoint optimizes threat detection and response while reducing analyst workload resulting in stronger protection and less operational strain.

CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719: FortiCloud SSO Login Authentication Bypass

On December 9, 2025, Fortinet released an advisory detailing two critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities affecting FortiOS, FortiWeb, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager. Designated CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719, these vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated threat actor to bypass FortiCloud SSO login authentication via a crafted SAML message if the feature is enabled on the device. Fortinet states that FortiCloud SSO login is disabled by default in factory settings.

CVE-2025-55182: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found in React Server Components

On December 3, 2025, the React team released fixes for a maximum severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, stems from unsafe handling of serialized DOM elements, allowing for remote code execution in React 19 and other frameworks built on top of it, such as Next.js 15–16. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to React as part of a bug bounty program and is not known to be actively exploited in the wild at this time.

How Arctic Wolf Delivers Managed Detection and Response with Broad Visibility and Proactive Security

In this Managed Detection and Response overview, we see how Arctic Wolf delivers 24x7 monitoring, broad visibility, response capabilities and proactive security recommendations to our customers leveraging their existing security tools and the Aurora Platform.