Report: One-fifth of software has a severe security flaw

Fixing flaws isn't a one-and-done affair, and applications need active maintenance, but they aren't always getting that throughout their life cycles, the report found. — Photo by Lewis Kang'ethe Ngugi on Unsplash

Nearly a fifth of software scanned during the past year has a serious security flaw, according to a new report from application security company Veracode, released this morning.

The study draws on scans of 759,000 applications that Veracode customers conducted with the company's platform during the past 12 months. Overall, 74% of the scanned applications had at least one flaw, and 19% had an issue deemed "high or critical severity."