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The Hidden Danger of Open Source: 14,000 Invisible Vulnerabilities

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Palo Alto Networks identified 14,90 vulnerabilities previously unknown in 3,915 open source software projects, of which almost 40 percent were classified as high or critical gravity.With its Network and Open Source Vulnerability Analyzer (NOVA) tool, the cybersecurity company analyzed open source software projects for two months, where it found that virtually all vulnerabilities discovered (99.4 percent) remained unreported.
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Palo Alto Networks identified 14,90 vulnerabilities previously unknown in 3,915 open source software projects, of which almost 40 percent were classified as high or critical gravity.With its Network and Open Source Vulnerability Analyzer (NOVA) tool, the cybersecurity company analyzed open source software projects for two months, where it found that virtually all vulnerabilities discovered (99.4 percent) remained unreported.

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Palo Alto Networks has published a new research that introduces the Network and Open-Source Vulnerability Analyzer (NOVA), a fully autonomous vulnerability research system powered by AI, designed to discover, validate and document previously unknown software vulnerabilities. In a two-month evaluation, NOVA analyzed 3,915 open source software projects and identified 14,090 previously unknown vulnerabilities, of which 99.4% had not been publicly r…

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CyberSecurity News broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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