Close to 17,000 New Computer Vulnerabilities Disclosed During 2019

There were 16,738 newly-disclosed vulnerabilities during the first three quarters of 2019.

According to the RiskBased Security Vulnerability QuickView Report 2019 Q3 trends, there were 5,970 more vulnerabilities than CVE/NVD during the same period. In addition, 15 percent of 2019 vulnerabilities with a CVE ID were in "RESERVED" status at the end of September, which means details about the vulnerabilities had not been disclosed yet.

Forty-eight percent of all vulnerabilities identified by the end of September had a CVSSv2 (vulnerability metric) score of 6.0 and above and 39 percent of all vulnerabilities identified by end of September had available exploit code or a proof of concept (PoC).

**"Top" Vendors by Confirmed Vulnerabilities**
	New Rank	Old Rank	2019 Totals	2018 Totals
Oracle	1	3	969	1247
Google	2	4	945	977
SUSE	3	1	812	1259
SITPI	4	2	805	1254
Red Hat	5	6	757	951
IBM	6	9	736	626
Canonical	7	7	655	903
Samsung	8	5	614	972
Microsoft	9	10	485	434
Cisco	10	10+	390	405

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