The number of disclosed open source software vulnerabilities in 2019 reached over 6000, up from just over 4,000 in 2018, a new WhiteSource report says.
“This can be attributed to the rise in awareness to open source security following the widespread adoption of open source components and the massive growth of the open source community over the past few years, along with the media attention directed at recent data breaches,” the company noted.
Discovery, disclosure and listing
WhiteSource has surveyed over 650 developers, collected data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), security advisories, peer-reviewed vulnerability databases, issue trackers and more, and has found that:
Over 85% of open source security vulnerabilities are disclosed with a fix already available
Only 84% of known open source vulnerabilities eventually appe ..
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