- Study Finds Most Software Vulnerabilities Have Patches Within One Day
- More than 16,000 Vulnerabilities Reported in 2015
- Most Vulnerabilities Receive Patches Quickly
- Browser Vulnerabilities Continue to Rise
- Zero-Day Growth Is Flat
- Unpatched Vulnerabilities in PDF Readers Persist
- Windows 10 Already a Target
- Top Attack Vector Is Remote
Study Finds Most Software Vulnerabilities Have Patches Within One Day
Although the total number of vulnerabilities continues to rise, new research finds that most are not zero-day risks.
More than 16,000 Vulnerabilities Reported in 2015
Across the 1,484 products from 263 vendors that Secunia Research examined in 2015, there were 16,801 vulnerabilities.
Most Vulnerabilities Receive Patches Quickly
According to the Vulnerability Review 2016, 84 percent of issues were patched the day the vulnerability was publicly disclosed.
Browser Vulnerabilities Continue to Rise
Across the top five Web browsers—Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari–1,114 vulnerabilities were discovered in 2015.
Zero-Day Growth Is Flat
There were 25 zero-day flaws reported across the products that the Flexera report covers, the same number as last year.
Unpatched Vulnerabilities in PDF Readers Persist
The Adobe Reader PDF application is the most popular PDF reader on the market and also had the most vulnerabilities in 2015: 133.
Windows 10 Already a Target
In its first year of release, Windows 10 had 256 reported vulnerabilities. In contrast, Windows 8 had 466 vulnerabilities reported in 2015.
Top Attack Vector Is Remote
Across all the vulnerabilities analyzed in the Flexera report, 57 percent were remotely exploitable by attackers.