Seven Years of Software Vulnerabilities: The Ebb and Flow
Hossein Homaei, Hamid Reza Shahriari · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2017
A seven-year study using National Vulnerability Database records determined not only which software vulnerabilities were the most common and most severe but also which ones should be prevented first to gain maximum benefit. By focusing on just seven vulnerability categories, security professionals could prevent 60 percent of all software vulnerabilities.