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Exploitation beat CVE publication for about 256 vulnerabilities last year
VulnCheck logged 884 vulnerabilities with first-time exploitation evidence in 2025, and 28.96% of them were already being exploited by the day their CVE appeared, up from 23.6% a year earlier. The same report calls the year's timing highly consistent with 2024.
Publishers:vulncheck.com
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives78
- Confidence48