Comparison Overview
LPL Financial

LPL Financial
4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, CA, US, 92121-1968
Last Update: 02/06/2026
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 ...

Merrill Lynch
2 World Financial Center, New York, 10281, US
Last Update: 03/04/2026
Founded in 1914, Merrill is one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world. Merrill financial advisors combine financial knowledge and experience with a deep understanding of their clients’ needs to help their clients pursue the lives they want. With a dee...
Compliance Ranges Comparison

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Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals
Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Avg (This Year)
LPL Financial has 45.36% fewer incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.
Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Avg (This Year)
No incidents recorded for Merrill Lynch in 2026.
Incident History - LPL Financial (X = Date, Y = Severity)
LPL Financial cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Incident History - Merrill Lynch (X = Date, Y = Severity)
Merrill Lynch cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Notable Incidents

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FAQ
Latest Global CVEs
OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.12, a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR file causes an unconditional process abort in any application that calls exr_start_read() on untrusted input, resulting in denial of service. The crash is triggered by a QCD marker whose lower five bits are zero, which OpenEXR passes into the vendored OpenJPH library while constructing the codestream and evaluating its quantization delta parameters. OpenJPH uses an assertion rather than a recoverable error to validate those bits, so any invalid value calls abort() directly and cannot be intercepted by surrounding error handling, a problem compounded by OpenEXR wrapping only its internal HT header parser in error handling while leaving the later codestream read and construction calls unprotected. This issue has been resolved in version 3.4.13.
A vulnerability has been found in Faveo Helpdesk up to 2.0.3. Affected is the function unlink of the file app/Http/Controllers/Admin/helpdesk/SettingsController.php of the component Logo Handler. Such manipulation of the argument data1 leads to path traversal. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
A flaw has been found in Faveo Helpdesk up to 2.0.3. This impacts the function FormController::post_ticket_reply of the file app/Http/Controllers/Client/helpdesk/FormController.php of the component post-ticket-reply Endpoint. This manipulation causes missing authentication. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion in MasterStudy LMS <= 3.7.42 versions.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Stripe Payments <= 2.1.2 versions.