The number of open source vulnerabilities that Mend identified and added to its vulnerability database in the first nine months of 2022 was 33 percent greater than the first nine months of 2021, reflecting both the growth in the number of published open-source packages and the acceleration of vulnerabilities. As businesses continue to heavily rely on their applications for success, this growing threat is a mounting concern.

The report’s representative sampling through January to September 2022 of approximately 1,000 North American companies found that only 13 percent of vulnerabilities seen were remediated, compared with 40 percent remediated by those using modern application security best practices.