Total Published CVEs Hits Record High for Fourth Year

guest · Dec 16, 2020

Total Published CVEs Hits Record High for Fourth Year
December 16, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/total-cves-record/

The past 12 months have seen a record number of CVEs published by the US authorities, the fourth year in a row volumes have risen.

As of December 15, the number of vulnerabilities in production code discovered and assigned a CVE number by the US-CERT Vulnerability Database, topped the 2019 figure.
Last year there were 17,306 CVEs published, including 4337 high-risk, 10,956 medium-risk and 2013 low-risk flaws.

As of yesterday, 17,447 were recorded in total, including 4168 high-risk, 10,710 medium-risk and 2569 low-risk bugs.
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Between 2005-16 numbers ranged from around 4000 to 8000 vulnerabilities each year, according to the official figures from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Vulnerability Database.
K2 Cyber Security, which noticed the recent record spike, argued that the pandemic may have had an impact on disclosures this year.
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