Evidence comparison

CyberArk and Delinea: what the public record shows about each

Both products turn up on privileged access management shortlists, so this page puts their two evidence records next to each other: 48 items on CyberArk and 30 on Delinea, each one linked to the source it came from. It does not name a winner, and the section below explains why the numbers cannot be subtracted from one another.

Read the counts correctly

More advisories does not mean less secure. A vulnerability register records what researchers found and what the vendor disclosed. A product deployed in thousands of organisations with a mature disclosure process accumulates far more entries than a product nobody audits. A low count can mean a small install base, a young product or a vendor that publishes little, and a high count often marks the opposite.

The two counts are not measured with equal precision. An advisory is only listed against a vendor when the register ties it to one of its products by name, and vendors differ enormously in how consistently their products are named. Here that gap is 33 unattributable entries for CyberArk against 14 for Delinea, which moves the advisory row far more than the products do. Both numbers are in the table so the difference is visible rather than hidden.

Treat this page as two records shown together, never as one score minus another.

The two records side by side

MeasureCyberArkDelinea
Evidence items in the recordSize of the record, not a quality signal.4830
Kinds of source44
Advisories attributed to the vendor's productsCounts scrutiny and deployment breadth. See the caution above.27
Register entries that could not be attributedEntries naming the vendor that could not be tied to one of its products, so they are excluded from the row above. Read the two rows together: where this number is high, the registers describe that vendor's products less consistently, and the advisory count above says more about naming than about the product.3314
Of those, in the CISA known-exploited catalogueExploitation observed in the wild. The one count worth reading closely.00
Share from government registers77%83%
Share the vendor cannot edit100%100%
Public practitioner threadsReflects community size as much as product behaviour.40
Most recent entryJul 27, 2026Jul 17, 2026
Sources last re-queriedJul 27, 2026Jul 17, 2026

Where each record comes from

The registers and platforms behind each column, with the body that operates each one. A record resting on government registers carries different weight from one resting on the vendor's own documentation, which is why this is shown per vendor rather than merged.

CyberArk

SourceOperated byClassificationItemsLatest
European Vulnerability DatabaseENISA, European UnionAuthoritative35Jun 12, 2026
National Vulnerability DatabaseNIST, United States Department of CommerceAuthoritative2Nov 27, 2025
Analyst, review and reference sourcesRecognised analysts, review marketplaces and technology pressIndependent7Jul 27, 2026
Engineering discussionsHacker News, public threadsIndependent4Aug 07, 2025

Delinea

SourceOperated byClassificationItemsLatest
European Vulnerability DatabaseENISA, European UnionAuthoritative20Jun 09, 2026
National Vulnerability DatabaseNIST, United States Department of CommerceAuthoritative5Jun 10, 2026
Analyst, review and reference sourcesRecognised analysts, review marketplaces and technology pressIndependent3Jul 17, 2026
Engineering discussionsHacker News, public threadsIndependent2Jan 30, 2025

Documented vulnerabilities

Only entries tied to a product of the named vendor by a structural signal are listed: an advisory reference on the vendor's own domain, the vendor as the assigning authority, or the affected product list naming it. Entries that merely mention a vendor in passing are excluded from both columns.

CyberArk

  • CVE-2025-13762mediumCVSS 4.8Nov 27, 2025

    Improper Input Validation vulnerability in CyberArk CyberArk Secure Web Sessions Extension on Chrome, Edge allows Denial of Service when trying to starting new SWS sessions.This issue…

  • CVE-2025-49831criticalCVSS 9.8Jul 15, 2025

    An attacker of Secrets Manager, Self-Hosted installations that route traffic from Secrets Manager to AWS through a misconfigured network device can reroute authentication requests to a…

Delinea

  • CVE-2026-2409criticalCVSS 9.3Feb 19, 2026

    Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Delinea Cloud Suite allows Argument Injection.This issue affects Cloud Suite: before…

  • CVE-2025-12812mediumCVSS 5.3Feb 18, 2026

    Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') in Delinea Inc.

  • CVE-2025-12811mediumCVSS 6.9Feb 18, 2026

    Improper Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') in Delinea Inc.

  • CVE-2025-12810mediumCVSS 6.5Jan 27, 2026

    Improper Authentication vulnerability in Delinea Inc.

  • CVE-2025-6942lowCVSS 3.8Jul 02, 2025

    The distributed engine versions 8.4.39.0 and earlier of Secret Server versions 11.7.49 and earlier can be exploited during an initial authorization event that would allow an attacker to…

  • CVE-2025-6943lowCVSS 3.8Jul 02, 2025

    Secret Server version 11.7 and earlier is vulnerable to a SQL report creation vulnerability that allows an administrator to gain access to restricted tables.

What practitioners report

Public threads naming each product in their own title. Not curated for sentiment, and not counted as a verdict: a loud thread is one team's experience, not a measurement.

CyberArk

  • Hacker NewsAug 07, 2025Independent

    Researchers Uncover RCE Attack Chains in HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk Conjur

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Hacker NewsJul 30, 2025Independent

    Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25B

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Hacker NewsJul 30, 2025Independent

    Palo Alto Networks Announces Agreement to Acquire CyberArk

    news.ycombinator.com

  • Hacker NewsJul 29, 2025Independent

    Palo Alto Networks closing on over $20B acquisition of CyberArk

    news.ycombinator.com

Delinea

Nothing on record from this kind of source.

What neither record can tell you

The two lists below are the honest holes in each record. Everything a choice between these two actually turns on sits outside both of them.

CyberArk

  • A further 33 register entries mention CyberArk without naming a product of CyberArk as affected. They are excluded rather than counted as vulnerabilities.
  • Pricing, contract terms, notice periods and support commitments are not part of any public register. They come from the vendor and belong in a negotiation record.
  • Certification status such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or BSI C5 has to be checked against the current certificate and its stated scope. A valid certificate can still exclude the product being bought.

Delinea

  • A further 14 register entries mention Delinea without naming a product of Delinea as affected. They are excluded rather than counted as vulnerabilities.
  • No public practitioner discussion naming Delinea was found in the indexed threads. Operational experience with this product is not represented in this record.
  • Pricing, contract terms, notice periods and support commitments are not part of any public register. They come from the vendor and belong in a negotiation record.
  • Certification status such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or BSI C5 has to be checked against the current certificate and its stated scope. A valid certificate can still exclude the product being bought.

Whether CyberArk is the right choice is not on this page

A record of what is true about a vendor is one half of a decision. The other half is your context: which criteria matter, how heavily each one weighs, what is a hard no, and who has to sign the result off. No public page can know that, and any page that claims to rank vendors for you is guessing at it.

Typical criteria for this category

Needs your case
  • SSO / SAML / OIDC Integrationweight
  • Privileged Access Managementweight
  • Identity Governance & Access Certificationweight
  • SCIM Provisioning / Lifecycle Managementweight
  • Zero-Trust Architecture Supportweight

Criteria shown as examples for privileged access management. Weighting and fit are properties of your decision, not of the vendor, so they are not published here.

What DecisionOS adds on top of this record

  • The vendor scored against your criteria with your weighting, not against a generic ranking
  • A dealbreaker check against your hard constraints: data residency, contract terms, existing stack
  • A side-by-side view of the alternatives on your shortlist, built from this same evidence pool
  • This evidence mapped onto your compliance scope: NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2
  • A decision memo your board can read, with the trade-offs and the reasoning on the record

Questions this page answers

Which is better, CyberArk or Delinea?

This page does not answer that, and no public page can. Better exists only relative to a decision: which criteria matter, how heavily each weighs, what counts as a dealbreaker and which systems the product has to live next to. What this page gives you is the evidence on both, 48 items on CyberArk and 30 on Delinea, each with its source, so the judgement rests on the record rather than on marketing.

Does CyberArk or Delinea have more vulnerabilities?

Delinea currently has 7 attributed advisories in this record and CyberArk has 2. That comparison is easy to misread. A vulnerability register records what researchers found and what the vendor disclosed, so a widely deployed product with an active disclosure process accumulates more entries than one nobody audits. A low count can equally mean a small install base or a vendor that publishes little. The two figures are also not measured with equal precision: an advisory only counts here when a register ties it to a named product, and 33 entries naming CyberArk and 14 naming Delinea could not be tied to one. The count worth reading closely is how many entries appear in the CISA catalogue of known exploited vulnerabilities, which is 0 for CyberArk and 0 for Delinea.

How independent is the evidence on CyberArk and Delinea?

100 percent of the CyberArk record and 100 percent of the Delinea record come from sources the vendor does not control: government vulnerability registers, public practitioner threads and a fixed list of recognised analysts and technology press. Material either vendor publishes about itself stays in the record and is labelled as a claim.

What does this comparison of CyberArk and Delinea leave out?

Pricing, contract terms, notice periods, support commitments and the current scope of any certificate. None of those appear in a public register; they come from the vendor and belong in a negotiation record. Fit with your existing stack and your compliance scope is also absent, because it is a property of your organisation rather than of a privileged access management product.

Why does nexalign publish this instead of ranking CyberArk and Delinea?

Because a ranking would have to invent the buyer. Every quadrant and score sheet silently assumes a weighting that belongs to someone else's decision. nexalign publishes the record and keeps the weighting where it belongs, in DecisionOS, where it is set by the people who have to defend the outcome.

The full records

Two records do not make a decision

Choosing between CyberArk and Delinea depends on which criteria matter to you, how heavily each one weighs, what your hard constraints are and who has to sign the result off. DecisionOS takes this same evidence pool, scores it against the criteria of your actual decision and produces a memo that holds up in front of a board and an auditor.

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