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To answer that question, let us first tell you that VxWorks is the world’s most widely used operating system. So prevalent is its use that you can find this OS in over 2 billion devices around the world, including medical and industrial devices.
The Armis research team, Armis Labs, have discovered 11, zero day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, thus the moniker, ” Urgent 11″. These VxWorks vulnerability, according to Armis Lab, reside in VxWorks’ TCP/IP stack (IPnet), impacting all versions since version 6.5, and are a rare example of vulnerabilities found to affect the operating system over the last 13 years.
Armis has worked closely with Wind River, the maintainer of VxWorks, and the latest VxWorks 7 released on July 19 contains fixes for all the discovered vulnerabilities.
The VxWorks vulnerability seems to be quite a problem, going by what Armis has posted.
Six of the vulnerabilities are classified as critical and enable Remote Code Execution (RCE).
