In the past few years, the number of published open source software vulnerabilities has tremendously increased, reaching 9,658 worldwide in 2020. There are various reasons behind this increase in vulnerabilities, one being that there are more automated scanning and detection tools available now to find and fix these security vulnerabilities in open source software.
Open source software vulnerabilities worldwide from 2009 to 2020
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