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May 2026
Podman’s WebView Turned World-View
[CVE-2026-34045]
Unauthenticated Remote Denial-of-Service & Information Disclosure in Podman Desktop
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“Pentera helps us prioritize what truly matters and gives us confidence we are covering our global environment continuously.”
“Seeing a domain admin account cracked in production changed how we view internal exposure.”
“Pentera helped us advance our red team and continuously improve penetration testing.”
“Pentera makes it easier to focus on what is truly exploitable instead of chasing long vulnerability lists.”
“In a complex, large-scale environment, Pentera delivers the speed and visibility security teams need.”
“Pentera amplified our team’s performance and delivered measurable value to upper management.”
"Pentera allows us to tailor testing to each service, reduce time and costs, and shift our focus from simply finding vulnerabilities to actively helping our teams fix them.”

Rubén Alonso | Head of Secure
Development Unit, Telefonica

“I don’t think we’d be able to advance our red team without Pentera. If you’re looking to improve penetration testing, I would definitely recommend it.”

Owen Fuller | Cybersecurity Engineering
Manager, Casey’s

Analyst Report

Adversarial Exposure Validation

Security teams can no longer rely on theoretical exposure data alone.

According to the Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), “60% of organizations are expected to adopt structured exposure validation as part of CTEM by 2029 with AEV technologies and managed service providers serving as primary enablers.”

Adversarial exposure validation enables organizations to focus on real risk, continuously test defenses, and align validation efforts with remediation workflows – supporting more effective and actionable security programs.

Pentera is recognized as a representative vendor.

ADOPTION PATTERNS

How Organizations Are Using AEV

  • Validate which exposures are exploitable in their environment
  • Prioritize risk based on validated attack paths
  • Connect validation to remediation and orchestration workflows
  • Support continuous validation as part of CTEM programs
  • Improve security posture through evidence-based decisions

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Market Guide

Gartner, Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, 2026.  Dhivya Poole, Mitchell Schneider, Eric Ahlm. 24 March 2026.

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