{"id":223762,"date":"2025-10-22T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/over-75000-watchguard-security-devices-vulnerable-to-critical-rce"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:18:06","slug":"over-75000-watchguard-security-devices-vulnerable-to-critical-rce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/over-75000-watchguard-security-devices-vulnerable-to-critical-rce","title":{"rendered":"Over 75,000 WatchGuard security devices vulnerable to critical RCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-75000-watchguard-security-devices-vulnerable-to-critical-rce.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 76,000 WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the public web and still vulnerable to a critical issue (CVE-2025\u20139242) that could allow a remote attacker to execute code without authentication.<\/p>\n<p>Firebox devices act as a central defense hub that controls traffic between internal and external networks, providing protection through policy management, security services, VPN, and real-time real-time visibility through WatchGuard Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Scans from The Shadowserver Foundation currently show that there are 75,835 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shadowserver\/status\/1979902019696509099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vulnerable Firebox appliances<\/a> across the world, most of them in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 76,000 WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the public web and still vulnerable to a critical issue (CVE-2025\u20139242) that could allow a remote attacker to execute code without authentication. Firebox devices act as a central defense hub that controls traffic between internal and external networks, providing protection through policy management, security services, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}