Security News > 2020 > March > Number of open source vulnerabilities surged in 2019

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.

Over 85% of open source security vulnerabilities are disclosed with a fix already available.

Only 84% of known open source vulnerabilities eventually appear in the NVD, some of them months after their disclosure elsewhere.

C still has the highest percentage of vulnerabilities due to the high volume of code written in this language.

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