AI models rapidly discovering open source vulnerabilities faster than maintainers can patch them, forcing security approach rethinks
Security issue Provisional 72% confidence first seen
Frontier AI models are discovering open source vulnerabilities at unprecedented speeds, with reports in some portfolios increasing from 7 to 112 per month. Organizations are struggling to respond to this acceleration, as traditional patching timelines (55 days mean time to patch) cannot keep pace with AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation at scale, forcing a rethinking of platform security architectures and the need for vendor-backed coordinated patching.