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2020 vulnerability disclosures are on track to exceed 2019 despite a sharp decrease of 19.2% observed earlier in the year, according to Risk Based Security.

Despite the initial disruption from COVID-19, the trend of total number of vulnerabilities suggests that business operations and routines have normalized as the gap has closed to 0.98%. "2020 could be titled 'The Great Catch-up'. We saw an incredible drop of 19.2% in Q1, but with each subsequent quarter that massive gap steadily closed," commented Brian Martin, VP of Vulnerability Intelligence at Risk Based Security.

The report goes into further detail on how vulnerability disclosures caught up throughout the year.

These Vulnerability Fujiwhara result in challenging workloads for vulnerability management teams, and made timely patching and remediation a difficult task for many organizations.

CVE failed to report 29% of known vulnerabilities in 2020.

"Our VulnDB team hit a major milestone of 80,000 aggregated vulnerabilities without a CVE ID. Now that it appears operations have mostly normalized, those who are wary or are struggling with current workloads may want to consider strengthening their vulnerability management programs with proper vulnerability intelligence."

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