Is anyone else frustrated by how long security vendors take to assess whether their products are affected by critical vulnerabilities?

CVE-2026-98432 is a recent example. Weeks after public disclosure, some vendors are still investigating whether their products are affected.

Examples:

Fortinet: https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-26-188 Progress/Kemp: https://community.progress.com/s/question/0D5Pb00005CbkdZKAR/is-kemp-loadmaster-affected-by-cve202698432

I understand that proper vulnerability assessments take time. But we're talking about vendors whose products are supposed to protect critical infrastructure.

Meanwhile, customers are left in the dark, potentially exposed for weeks, without knowing whether their infrastructure is vulnerable or what action to take.

How are your experiences with security vendors? Is this becoming the norm, or are some vendors handling vulnerability assessments significantly better?

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in UI in Progress ADC Products allows an authenticated attacker with “All” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in a custom WAF rule file during the file upload process.

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress ADC Products allows an authenticated attacker with “All” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the 'killsession' command

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress ADC Products allows an authenticated attacker with “VS Administration” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the 'aclcontrol' command

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress ADC Products allows an authenticated attacker with “Geo Administration” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the 'addcountry' command

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress ADC Products allows an un-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in multiple command endpoints

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, ECS Connection Manager, Object Scale Connection Manager, and MOVEit WAF allows an authenticated attacker with high privileges to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the affected appliance via the management interface, potentially resulting in complete system compromise.

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, ECS Connection Manager, Object Scale Connection Manager, and MOVEit WAF allows an authenticated attacker with high privileges to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the affected appliance via the Geo Location management interface, potentially resulting in complete system compromise.

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, ECS Connection Manager, Object Scale Connection Manager, and MOVEit WAF allows an authenticated attacker with high privileges to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the affected appliance via the backup restore functionality, potentially resulting in complete system compromise.

An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, ECS Connection Manager, Object Scale Connection Manager, and MOVEit WAF allows an authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate privileges to root on the affected appliance, potentially resulting in full system compromise.

A Missing Authorization vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, ECS Connection Manager, Object Scale Connection Manager, MOVEit WAF, and Multi Tenant allows an authenticated attacker with low privileges to perform privileged administrative operations via the REST API that should not be accessible to their permission level, potentially resulting in a system compromise.

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress LoadMaster allows an authenticated attacker with “User Administration” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the API input parameters

Progress Kemp LoadMaster contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.

A Bash script injection vulnerability exists in Kemp Load Master 7.1-16 and earlier due to a failure to sanitize input in the Web User Interface (WUI).

OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress LoadMaster allows an authenticated attacker with “User Administration” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the API input parameters