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NVD stops scoring most CVEs as AI-driven discovery makes remediation the bottleneck
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CVE remediation has become the primary bottleneck as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery past human validation capacity and the NVD stops scoring most entries.
Teams can no longer rely on NVD severity scores to triage vulnerabilities, and the conventional advice to upgrade dependencies now carries breaking-change risks and supply-chain attack exposure. Backporting fixes to pinned versions emerges as an alternative that avoids both the upgrade trap and migration costs.
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The NVD has stopped scoring most CVEs, shelving all entries filed before March 2026 as 'Not Scheduled,' removing the severity data teams use to triage.
AI models now find vulnerabilities faster than humans can validate them, with annual CVE disclosures projected to exceed 60,000 in 2026.
Upgrading dependencies carries risks of breaking changes and supply-chain compromise, making backporting fixes to current versions a viable alternative.
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