--- title: Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse” description: CVE disclosures are projected to hit ~66,000 in 2026, up from 48,185 in 2025, but the share of critical vulnerabilities has roughly halved and actively... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/volume-is-not-risk-making-sense-of-the-vulnpocalypse--eqgo0mlws twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse” | daily.dev og:description: CVE disclosures are projected to hit ~66,000 in 2026, up from 48,185 in 2025, but the share of critical vulnerabilities has roughly halved and actively... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/volume-is-not-risk-making-sense-of-the-vulnpocalypse--eqgo0mlws og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EqGO0MLWS.png og:image:alt: Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse” **[Trend Micro](https://daily.dev/sources/trendmicro)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CVE disclosures are projected to hit ~66,000 in 2026, up from 48,185 in 2025, but the share of critical vulnerabilities has roughly halved and actively exploited flaws remain well under 1% of total disclosures. The surge is driven by AI-assisted bug discovery, structural reporting changes, and product sprawl — not a sudden collapse in software security. The real threat is the shrinking window between disclosure and exploitation, now collapsing from weeks to hours. Security leaders are advised to stop reporting raw CVE counts, triage using CISA KEV and EPSS scores, deploy virtual patching to cover the disclosure-to-patch gap, and invest in automation and exploitability intelligence rather than scaling patch volume. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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