CriticalCVE
Introducing Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities
Cloudflare Blog·Source published ·1 min read
What happened?
You run security at your organization. It’s 7:00 am, and you’re having breakfast. You receive a ping: a new critical vulnerability has been disclosed. Your team scrambles to compare vendor advisories, read technical research, check which systems run the affected software, and answer familiar questions from the business: are we affected, and what are we doing about it? Another disclosure arrives before that work is finished. AI is changing both the volume and speed of critical vulnerability discovery.
Key details
- Zero Wire is a public vulnerability intelligence feed on Cloudflare Radar that provides plain-language briefings on critical Internet-facing vulnerabilities.
- Each briefing includes an overview, recommended actions, a prompt for AI-assisted impact assessment, and links to vendor advisories and exploitation evidence.
- Zero Wire focuses on critical CVEs in Internet-facing software such as web applications, runtimes, libraries, and exposed services where a proxy can help mitigate exploitation.
- The php2shell example shows that updating application code alone does not fix underlying PHP runtime flaws, and briefings direct readers to vendor security guidance for affected versions.
Fixes and mitigations
- Keep compensating controls in place while patching vulnerable software.
What to look for
- HTTP requests matching Cloudflare WAF managed rules over time, shown in charts per briefing.
- Traffic matching WAF rules indicating exploitation attempts observed on Cloudflare's network.
Summarised by SecOraLens from Cloudflare Blog. Always read the original source before acting. How SecOraLens verifies advisories.
