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Since this week marks the start of the 2nd quarter, I figured it would be interesting to see where we are with the number of CVEs published this year.
Since January 1st, 2021, the NVD has published:
2792 CVEs
31 Per Day
The five busiest publishing dates were:
2021-01-20 201
2021-01-12 127
2021-01-13 126
2021-03-11 107
2021-02-04 92
How does this compare to CVEs published in Q1 2020
From January 1st, 2020 to April 1st, 2020, there were:
2484 CVEs
27 Per Day
7.11 Average CVSS 3 Score
27.2 Average Kenna Risk Score.
The five busiest publishing dates in the 1st quarter last year were:
2020-03-12 284
2020-01-15 228
2020-02-11 163
2020-03-25 100
2020-02-13 79
Looking Ahead
In Q1 of 2020, 15% of CVEs were published (2484 of 15789). If that number were to hold for this year, we are looking at over 17800 CVEs this year (although I would bet the over). Here is a Jupyter notebook you can use to get access to the full data set:
https://gist.github.com/jgamblin/119ef976bfacd12f6ba0f0bc3e276f5f
Listen to our podcast as we look into how 2021 is shaping up.
