Cybersecurity statistics / Vulnerability Exploitation
| Publisher | Cloud Security Alliance |
| Report | 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security |
| Published | 2 June 2026 |
| Topics | Vulnerability Exploitation, Patch Management, Vulnerability Management |
Published by Cloud Security Alliance in 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security , 2 June 2026. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.
| Organizations that remediate vulnerabilities in 4–7 days are breached by a known vulnerability at a 97% rate. Cloud Security Alliance, 06/06/2026 |
| Log4j generated 824.9 million IPS hits in 2025. SonicWall, 27/05/2026 |
| Exploited high and critical severity vulnerabilities increased 105% from 71 in 2024 to 146 in 2025. 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report , 27/05/2026 |
| Mean time to exploit vulnerabilities was -7 days, indicating exploitation routinely occurs before patches are released. Mandiant, 27/05/2026 |
| 2% of cybersecurity intrusions investigated involved vulnerability exploitation. Google Cloud, 27/05/2026 |
| Vulnerability exploitation accounted for 40% of incidents observed by IBM X‑Force in 2025. IBM, 27/05/2026 |
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