Vulnerability Management
CVE trends, patch management statistics, vulnerability disclosure timelines, and remediation benchmarks.
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More than 60% of organizations rely on manual processes in at least part of the patch lifecycle.
Only 26% of critical vulnerabilities were fully remediated by organizations in 2025, a drop from the previous year’s 38%.
The median time for full resolution of critical vulnerabilities went up to 43 days, almost two weeks more than the previous year’s 32 days.
Small organizations remediate vulnerabilities fastest, averaging 14–18 days to fix exposures.
Organizations in the 5,000–10,000 employee range average 56 days to remediate exposures.
Banks remediate exposures in 11 days on average.
The insurance sector requires nearly 50 days to remediate exposures.
Financial service organizations outside of banking require 24 days to remediate exposures.
Automotive and pharmaceutical sectors average 43 days to remediate exposures.
62% of security teams say keeping up with increased engineering delivery is getting harder.
Real-time sharing of threat intelligence across SecOps, incident response, and vulnerability management nearly doubled from 17% in 2025 to 32% in 2026.
66% of security practitioners spend more than half their time manually validating findings rather than resolving the underlying vulnerabilities.
53% of security practitioners spend time each week coordinating fixes.
30% of organizations patch and then test to confirm that risk has been remediated
51% of enterprises use 11 or more security scanning and vulnerability management tools.
Automated bots generate more than 36,000 vulnerability scans per second.
Over 77% of organizations leave high or critical container vulnerabilities unpatched for more than 90 days.
53.77% of organizations show at least one critical vulnerability detected (patch management failure).
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 68.8% said they increased automation.
When open source using organizations were asked if they took steps to improve its patch and vulnerability management processes in the last 12 months, 44.8% said they conducted security training.