Zero-Day Exploit Prevention
By Nina Smith | Principal Product Manager, Advanced Threat Prevention
Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) is the industry's first IPS that leverages Precision AI to stop zero-day attacks inline and in real-time. Precision AI models are purpose-built to identify evolving and evasive threats and continuously train on rich threat data from 70K+ customers and AI-generated threats. ATP has proactively prevented unknown SQL and Command injection attacks before they can cause damage. ATP employs an automated enrichment system to map detections for unknown attacks to CVEs once they are published. Coverage for CVEs via ATP models provides proactive protection without requiring signatures, which are reactive measures used by traditional IPS.
A Recent High Severity Exploit in a Widely Used Network Monitoring Solution
One such case surfaced recently that is worth highlighting due to the high severity rating and 8.6 CVSS score. Nagios XI is a commercial IT infrastructure monitoring solution. The company claims it has over 10,000 customers, including popular household names across a wide range of verticals, from cell phone providers to global delivery service providers.
One of the key features of the system is the comprehensive assortment of wizards designed to assist administrators. According to CVE.org, “Nagios XI < 2026R1 is vulnerable to an authenticated command injection vulnerability within the MongoDB Database, MySQL Query, MySQL Server, Postgres Server, and Postgres Query wizards. It is possible to inject shell characters into arguments provided to the service and execute arbitrary system commands on the underlying host as the `nagios` user.”
Timeline and ATP Zero-Day Prevention in Action
This vulnerability was reported to Nagios at the end of June. On September 25, the CVE ID was reserved. The vendor published the vulnerability information on October 15th, and on the very same day, our system intercepted the POC and validated that ATP was able to detect and block the attack. On October 23rd, a signature (Unique Threat ID 96678) for this CVE was released and is available today. What this means is that prior to the POC being made available, the ATP cloud was ready to prevent this attack, had the malicious traffic been observed in our customer environments.
Prevent Tomorrow’s Attacks Today
This example reflects the core mission of Advanced Threat Prevention: transforming unknown threats through proactive, end-to-end security. Defending against the unknown is paramount to what we do; it is the central ethos of a proactive and comprehensive cybersecurity approach. The ability to defend against the unknown, to anticipate and neutralize emerging threats before they can cause harm, is not just a priority; it is the mission that drives everything we do.
As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and stealthy, security can no longer rely on reacting after the damage is done. We believe in empowering organizations to stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries by employing a multi-layered defense strategy that actively seeks out and identifies novel attack vectors. This involves leveraging cutting-edge intelligence, advanced analytics, and machine learning to detect subtle anomalies and patterns that indicate potential threats, even if they have never been seen before. Our commitment to defending against the unknown ensures that our clients are protected not just from yesterday's threats, but from the ones that haven't even been conceived yet. This unwavering focus on prevention sets us apart and enables us to deliver truly robust, resilient security solutions.
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