Comparison Overview
Ubuntu

Ubuntu
A3212, London, GB
Last Update: 07/08/2026
Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for a...

Microsoft
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, 98052, US
Last Update: 30/07/2026
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t...
Compliance Ranges Comparison

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Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals
Incidents vs Software Development Industry Avg (This Year)
Ubuntu has 376.19% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.
Incidents vs Software Development Industry Avg (This Year)
Microsoft has 1550.49% more incidents than the average of all companies with at least one recorded incident.
Incident History - Ubuntu (X = Date, Y = Severity)
Ubuntu cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Incident History - Microsoft (X = Date, Y = Severity)
Microsoft cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Notable Incidents

Ubuntu

Microsoft
FAQ
Latest Global CVEs
A maliciously crafted PDF file, when parsed through Autodesk Revit, can force an Out-of-Bounds Write vulnerability. A malicious actor may leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash, cause data corruption, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
A flaw was found in udisks2. A local attacker with an active console session can exploit insufficient authorization checking on the 'as-user' option in the org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.Mount() D-Bus method. This allows the attacker to spoof the 'as-user' parameter, mounting filesystems on behalf of arbitrary users, including privileged accounts. This can lead to local privilege escalation through mount point injection and manipulation of the mount namespace visible to privileged users.
A maliciously crafted BMP file, when parsed through certain Autodesk products, can force a Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
A maliciously crafted TIF file, when parsed through certain Autodesk products during image import, can cause an Out-of-Bounds Read in the image handling library. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service
PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. From 2.1.0 until 4.14.1, PILOS does not send a Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy response header, so pages opened by PILOS via a link that opens a new browsing context (e.g., target="_blank") retain a window.opener reference back to the originating PILOS tab. A malicious destination page reached this way can use window.opener to navigate or manipulate the original PILOS tab, a technique known as reverse tabnabbing, potentially redirecting an authenticated user to a phishing page that mimics PILOS. This issue is fixed in version 4.14.1.