Security News > 2021 > August > Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems

That's according to an in-depth look at the Linux threat landscape published by U.S.-Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, detailing the top threats and vulnerabilities affecting the operating system in the first half of 2021, based on data amassed from honeypots, sensors, and anonymized telemetry.

CVE-2020-17496 - vBulletin 'subwidgetConfig' unauthenticated RCE vulnerability.

CVE-2020-11651 - SaltStack Salt authorization weakness vulnerability.

CVE-2017-7657 - Eclipse Jetty chunk length parsing integer overflow vulnerability.

CVE-2013-4547 - Nginx crafted URI string handling access restriction bypass vulnerability.

Even more troublingly, the 15 most commonly used Docker images on the official Docker Hub repository has been revealed to harbor hundreds of vulnerabilities spanning across python, node, wordpress, golang, nginx, postgres, influxdb, httpd, mysql, debian, memcached, redis, mongo, centos, and rabbitmq, underscoring the need to secure containers from a wide range of potential threats at each stage of the development pipeline.

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