On March 21, 2025, The Hacker News published an article called “10 Critical Network Pentest Findings IT Teams Overlook.” This article highlights 20 critical high-security vulnerabilities frequently overlooked by IT teams during network penetration testing.
In addition to listing these findings, the article also provides the following:
• What each finding is
• The security impact
• The percentage of occurrence
• The CVSS ( Common Vulnerability Scoring System) score and
• Recommendations for mitigation
The 10 Findings were:
- Multicast DNS (mDNS) Spoofing
- NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) Spoofing
- Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) Spoofing
- IPv6 DNS Spoofing
- Outdated Microsoft Windows Systems
- IPMI Authentication Bypass
- Microsoft Windows RCE (EternalBlue)
- Microsoft Windows RCE (BlueKeep)
- Firebird Servers Accept Default Credentials
- Password Deficiencies – Redis Service
To read more about each finding’s details, CVSS score, and recommendations, follow this link to the Full Article.
