Security News > 2020 > December > Proportion of Exploited Vulnerabilities Continues to Drop
While the number of identified vulnerabilities has increased significantly over the past years, the percentage of flaws that are exploitable or have actually been exploited has been dropping, according to vulnerability management company Kenna Security.
Kenna Security has conducted an analysis of more than 100,000 vulnerabilities disclosed since 2011 and noticed that the number of exploitable and exploited flaws has been on a downwards trend over the past years.
In 2017, 9.1% of vulnerabilities were exploitable and 0.7% of them were actually exploited.
According to Kenna, in terms of severity, 8.6% of the critical vulnerabilities disclosed this year are exploitable and 2.1% have been exploited in attacks.
"Although the known universe of vulnerabilities is exploding, an increasingly small number of those vulnerabilities result in actual breaches. Focusing your remediation efforts on high-impact mitigations has never been more important," Kenna Security told organizations.