{"id":46818,"date":"2022-05-25T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/in-record-year-for-vulnerabilities-microsoft-actually-had-fewer\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:11:14","slug":"in-record-year-for-vulnerabilities-microsoft-actually-had-fewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/in-record-year-for-vulnerabilities-microsoft-actually-had-fewer\/","title":{"rendered":"In record year for vulnerabilities, Microsoft actually had fewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite a record number of publicly disclosed security flaws in 2021, Microsoft managed to improve its stats, according to research from BeyondTrust.<\/p>\n

Figures from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show last year broke all records for security vulnerabilities. By December, according to pentester Redscan<\/a>, 18,439 were recorded. That’s an average of more than 50 flaws a day.<\/p>\n

However just 1,212 vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft products last year, said BeyondTrust<\/a>, a 5 percent drop on the previous year. In addition, critical vulnerabilities in the software (those with a CVSS score of 9 or more) plunged 47 percent, with the drop in Windows Server specifically down 50 percent. There was bad news for Internet Explorer and Edge vulnerabilities, though: they were up 280 percent on the prior year, with 349 flaws spotted in 2021.<\/p>\n