FIRST Mid-Year Vulnerability Forecast Confirms Historic Surge, Projects ~66,000 CVEs in 2026
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AI and a rapidly expanding CVE ecosystem blow past February's already-record projections by 46%, but exploitable risk remains flat
FIRST Mid-Year Vulnerability Forecast Confirms Historic Surge, Projects ~66,000 CVEs in 2026 AI and a rapidly expanding CVE ecosystem blow past February's already-record projections by 46%, but exploitable risk remains flat DENVER, June 15, 2026 – Today at FIRST’s 38th Annual Conference , the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams ( FIRST ) released its 2026 Mid-Year Vulnerability Forecast , revealing that actual CVE disclosures are already running 46.3% above the projections published just four months ago. A mid-year reassessment shows disclosures are climbing faster than initially pre
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