Vulnerability Management
In-depth guides and analysis on vulnerability management from the Safeguard engineering team.
100 articles
Inside CVE-2023-46233: How crypto-js Shipped a 1.3-Million-Times-Weaker Key Derivation
crypto-js versions before 4.2.0 defaulted PBKDF2 to SHA1 with a single iteration — NVD calls it 1,300,000 times weaker than modern standards. Here's the fix.
Continuous vulnerability management: the discovery-to-verification lifecycle
CISA's new BOD 26-04 gives federal agencies as little as 3 days to remediate the highest-risk flaws — a preview of the SLA pressure every engineering org now faces.
Open Source Vulnerability Databases Compared: NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisory, and More
Not all vulnerability databases are created equal. A detailed comparison of coverage, timeliness, accuracy, and practical usability across the major databases.
CVSS 4.0 Scoring Adoption: What Changed
Two years after CVSS 4.0's release, adoption remains uneven. Here is where scoring really changed, where it did not, and how to handle mixed datasets.
VEX Adoption in the Enterprise: Lessons From Early Adopters
Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange documents promise to reduce alert fatigue by distinguishing exploitable vulnerabilities from theoretical ones. Here is how enterprises are actually using them.
Reachability-based vulnerability prioritization (Polaris ...
Reachability analysis cuts CVE noise by confirming which vulnerabilities are exploitable. Here's how Black Duck's Polaris reachability compares to Safeguard's pipeline-native approach.
AppSec program consolidation: reducing tool sprawl
AppSec tool sprawl is a consolidation problem, not just a vendor-count problem. A look at Black Duck's product lineage versus Safeguard's unified scanning pipeline.
Vulnerability scanning tools and techniques compared
A verifiable comparison of Safeguard and JFrog Xray on scan coverage, data sourcing, reachability analysis, and CI/CD integration for vulnerability scanning.
CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) status: why it matters when...
JFrog has issued its own CVEs since 2021 as a CVE Numbering Authority. Here's what CNA status really controls, where it falls short, and how to verify vendor-disclosed vulnerabilities.
CVE explained: how vulnerabilities get identified and scored
A CVE ID and its CVSS score come from different organizations entirely. Here's how identification and severity scoring actually work, using Log4Shell and the 2024 NVD backlog as examples.
CVSS scoring explained, and where severity scores go wrong
CVSS score explained through a real case where CVSS, EPSS, and KEV disagreed, showing why severity alone misleads prioritization decisions.
Citrix Bleed 2: Analysis and Mitigation
CVE-2025-5777 revived the memory-leak pattern that broke NetScaler in 2023. Here is what the 2025 variant does, who is exploiting it, and how to respond.
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