The 10 top software vulnerabilities in healthcare

Software vulnerabilities can leave healthcare organizations susceptible to cyberattacks.

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Here are the top 10 software vulnerabilities in the healthcare industry, according to Veracode’s State of Software Security: Volume 6 report.

1. Cryptographic issues
2. Information leakage
3. Code quality
4. Insufficient input validation
5. CRLF injection
6. Cross-site scripting (XSS)
7. Directory traversal
8. SQL injection
9. Time and state
10. Credentials management

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