{"id":17121,"date":"2026-08-28T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17121"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:09:46","slug":"cve-rates-are-exploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17121","title":{"rendered":"CVE rates are exploding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17041\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17041\">Nicholas Carlini&#8217;s famous talk at Black Hat conference this year<\/a>, his predictions have become shockingly real. Critical bugs are being found at an alarming rate. This means patches are also coming at a never before seen rate &#8211; and system developers and software engineers must now deal with this historic flood of patches. How many? Most companies would release in the low double digits of bug fixes in a given period. Now we&#8217;re seeing hundreds &#8211; in mere days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over 600 CVEs were identified in the Security Updates Guide across all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2026\/08\/07\/august-2026-patch-tuesday-forecast\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2026\/08\/07\/august-2026-patch-tuesday-forecast\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s products for July 2026 alone<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/security\/2026\/07\/23\/oracle-drops-1449-security-patches-like-its-the-new-normal\/5277114\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/security\/2026\/07\/23\/oracle-drops-1449-security-patches-like-its-the-new-normal\/5277114\">Oracle dropped 1449 security patches in one week<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux\/comments\/1v1siqn\/432_linux_kernel_cves_published_in_the_last_24\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux\/comments\/1v1siqn\/432_linux_kernel_cves_published_in_the_last_24\/\">432 Linux kernel CVE&#8217;s were published in just one 24 hour period<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of this appears to be slowing &#8211; and we have AI to thank for it. AI is able to find bugs at a rate never before seen. It&#8217;s a reminder to the software development world, and especially security specialists, that they have been leaving a LOT of bugs and <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/security\/mythos-detection-ceiling-security-teams-new-playbook\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/security\/mythos-detection-ceiling-security-teams-new-playbook\">issues in some of the most secure software (BSD) that was undiscovered for decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now people are talking about how to deal with astronomical numbers of patches coming out every week. It&#8217;s definitely something your production pipeline must be prepared for &#8211; because this will likely be the new normal for the rest of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Nicholas Carlini&#8217;s famous talk at Black Hat conference this year, his predictions have become shockingly real. Critical bugs are being found at an alarming rate. This means patches are also coming at a never before seen rate &#8211; and system developers and software engineers must now deal with this historic flood of patches. How many? Most companies would release in the low double digits of bug fixes in a given period. 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