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CyCognito is always seeking additional methods to discover customer external-facing assets. One such resource is an integration with content delivery network (CDN) management systems. Many organizations manage most or all their DNS records with CDNs, as they provide IT and security teams with centralized management visibility.

Pen testers use active testing technologies to probe and analyze systems dynamically, just as an attacker does. Active testing confirms whether a vulnerability is actually exploitable, which security teams use to determine which vulnerabilities to prioritize for remediation. Active security testing delivers confidence, sorely needed in today’s IT security world where noise and false positives have become a major part of an analyst’s day.

External Attack Surface Management (EASM) emerged with a bold promise: to illuminate the dark corners of an organization’s internet-facing infrastructure. It was sold as a panacea for “you don’t know what you don’t know,” offering security leaders the ability to see everything attackers could see. The expectation was straightforward—feed the EASM solution a few IP ranges or domains, and it would map your exposed assets, vulnerabilities, and risks.

We admit it – we’ve had our heads in the clouds recently. Since we started working with Wiz as one of their integration partners, we’ve been spending even more time thinking about cloud assets. And these assets are everywhere! Gartner predicts double digit growth across all cloud segments in 2025.

On April 24th, 2025, SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, a critical missing authorization check vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) affecting the Metadata Uploader component of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. This vulnerability fails to restrict file upload content, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve full remote code execution (RCE) on affected servers.

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) combine tools that scan your code, check your open-source libraries, protect your cloud workloads, and monitor your cloud configurations. But CNAPPs aren’t a silver bullet. They lack external active testing and blackbox cloud asset discovery, two capabilities that can leave exploitable vulnerabilities undetected. CNAPPs depend on APIs and deployment hooks to see what’s running.

CVE-2025-22457, a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.0) affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure, and Ivanti ZTA Gateways. The issue stems from a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by sending a specially crafted X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. Successful exploitation enables unauthenticated remote code execution. This vulnerability was originally misidentified as a buffer overflow vulnerability that could not lead to either remote code execution (RCE) or denial of service (DoS).

A critical improper authorization vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) in Next.js, tracked as CVE-2025-29927, was publicly disclosed on March 21, 2025. Next.js is a popular React-based web framework used for building full-stack applications. This vulnerability impacts applications that utilize middleware for authorization checks. Middleware functions used to implement access control, session validation, redirects, or security headers on incoming HTTP requests.