Vulnerability weaponization time collapses from 56 days to 5.3 hours as CVE flood explodes
DocStrangeLoop · reddit · 2026-11-06
A widely discussed post warns the window between vulnerability disclosure and attacker weaponization has collapsed: 2.3 years in 2018, 56 days in 2024, and just 5.3 hours per Microsoft as of October 2026. An attached chart shows monthly CVEs nearly vertically exploding past 17,000, with 3% of all CVEs since 1999 appearing in roughly the last two weeks. The author asks how traditional security response can survive without air-gapping networks or deploying real-time mitigation agents on every node.
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