Comparison Overview
GNU Project

GNU Project
N/A
Last Update: 18/03/2026
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software - software which respects your freedom. "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free s...

VMware
3401 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, 94304, US
Last Update: 17/08/2026
Broadcom's VMware software manages cloud complexity so customers can modernize infrastructure, accelerate app development, and protect workloads, wherever these reside. Our flagship cloud solutions provide the security and performance of private cloud combined with the...
Compliance Ranges Comparison

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Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals
Incidents vs Software Development Industry Avg (This Year)
GNU Project has 86.92% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.
Incidents vs Software Development Industry Avg (This Year)
VMware has 773.79% more incidents than the average of all companies with at least one recorded incident.
Incident History - GNU Project (X = Date, Y = Severity)
GNU Project cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Incident History - VMware (X = Date, Y = Severity)
VMware cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Notable Incidents

GNU Project

VMware
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Latest Global CVEs
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in David Lingren Media LIbrary Assistant allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Media LIbrary Assistant: from n/a through 3.39.
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Kings Plugins B2BKing allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects B2BKing: from n/a through 5.2.30.
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in PublishPress PublishPress Series allows Stored XSS. This issue affects PublishPress Series: from n/a through 2.17.0.
linuxfabrik-lib provides Python modules for database access, caching, shell execution, and API integrations, and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins uses its shared testing helper across check plugins. Prior to linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 7.0.0, lib.lftest.test() treated the first or second element of a --test CSV argument as a filesystem path and returned the file contents as simulated standard output or standard error without path confinement. The hidden but production-accessible --test argument was accepted by sudo-authorized plugins, so an attacker controlling the nagios or icinga account could use check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates with its default QUERY=1 to disclose every line of a root-readable file. Approximately 22 other plugins exposed filtered content or a root file existence and readability oracle through the same helper, while check-plugins/network-bonding/network-bonding and check-plugins/openstack-swift-stat/openstack-swift-stat had direct read paths that bypassed the helper. The library fix confines fixture reads to the invoking plugin's unit-test directory and refuses unsafe anchors, and the plugin fix routes the two bypasses through that helper. These issues are fixed in linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 7.0.0.
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/lib/commit/d665042c55fae83a295ebc0023e8b77f6c473a28
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/lib/releases/tag/v6.1.0
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/commit/f6680a9e4b39569f318feefdb2f51e5d18c7dad5
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/releases/tag/v7.0.0
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-rh9c-rqvg-f7pr
Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 7.0.0, check-plugins/logfile/logfile accepted a free-form --filename path and opened it as root when invoked through the shipped nagios or icinga sudoers allowlist, without confining the resolved path to /var/log. An attacker who controls the monitoring account can select a root-readable file such as /etc/shadow and use --warning-regex . while leaving SUPPRESS_OUTPUT false, causing each nonempty line to be collected in warn_matches and returned through lib.base.oao(). The vulnerable flow passes the expanded scan_path directly to open(), and neither real-path containment nor an allowlist protects the sink. The same fix also confines mysql-logfile and openvpn-client-list paths, allows only documented log roots, and resolves symlinks and parent-directory traversal before checking containment. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0.
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/blob/ae486fc629e1ca9373e1b6dd5e395603ee453bbc/CHANGELOG.md#v700---2026-08-14
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/commit/a0ca1268d84e0caf10442b9c7477d699b52d1c92
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/releases/tag/v7.0.0
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-f54c-p5vg-mr5c