There’s a trend in vulnerability data from Recast Software that connects directly to the patch management story the federal government is now pushing hard on.
Recast tracks CVE disclosures for third-party applications through its Setup Store catalog. Since March 2026, the number of unique CVEs registered each month has climbed from roughly 150-200 to more than 60,000 in June alone. This trend lines up with major software vendors (Chromium, Firefox among them) adopting AI-assisted vulnerability testing.
Tuukka Tiainen, Lead Security Engineer at Recast, has been tracking this closely and can speak to why it matters beyond the raw numbers:
- AI is helping vendors find far more bugs before they ship (good news but it also means organizations now face a much larger patch queue than a year ago)
- The more urgent risk, in his view, is the “patch gap” (aka the window between a patch becoming available and it actually being installed)
- He expects this to accelerate as more vendors adopt frontier AI models in their own security testing pipelines (Project Glasswing is likely just the first wave)
This tracks with what federal officials have been saying publicly. CISA’s new binding operational directive requires agencies to patch the highest-risk vulnerabilities within just three days, and at the recent FedRAMP Summit, GSA’s Pete Waterman called it a shift to defending “at the pace of AI.”
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There’s a trend in vulnerability data from Recast Software that connects directly to the patch management story the federal government is now pushing hard on.
Recast tracks CVE disclosures for third-party applications through its Setup Store catalog. Since March 2026, the number of unique CVEs registered each month has climbed from roughly 150-200 to more than 60,000 in June alone. This trend lines up with major software vendors (Chromium, Firefox among them) adopting AI-assisted vulnerability testing.
Tuukka Tiainen, Lead Security Engineer at Recast, has been tracking this closely and can speak to why it matters beyond the raw numbers:
This tracks with what federal officials have been saying publicly. CISA’s new binding operational directive requires agencies to patch the highest-risk vulnerabilities within just three days, and at the recent FedRAMP Summit, GSA’s Pete Waterman called it a shift to defending “at the pace of AI.”
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