Microsoft was the software vendor with the largest number of vulnerable products from August-October this year, overtaking IBM for the first time since reporting began, according to Flexera Software.
The security and compliance firm, which bought vulnerability management vendor Secunia recently, claimed Microsoft had 12 products affected by bugs, as opposed to IBM’s eight.
But Redmond has Adobe to thank for being nudged up the vulnerability charts, according to Kasper Lindgaard, director of Secunia Research at Flexera Software.
“The reason so many Microsoft products are in the Top 20 lists this time is that both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge come bundled with Adobe Flash, adding the 35 Flash vulnerabilities listed in August to Windows 8 and upwards,” he said.
“This means that for Windows systems from 8 and later, the 35 vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player are added to the Microsoft vulnerabilities, resulting in these products climbing higher than they otherwise would.”
