Vulnerability Reports Lose Special Status
- Vulnerability reports are no longer unique due to LLM findings
- Increased volume makes it harder to sift through noise
- Spam and extortion attempts overwhelm genuine reports
The Buzz Score
The Internet’s Verdict: 60% Concerned, 40% Skeptical
Forum Voices
Security experts weigh in on the changing landscape of vulnerability reports.
Security through obscurity was never a great strategy.. and now it’s not a strategy at all.. Hopefully at the end of this decade, a ton of software practices have been overhauled to eliminate classes of problems.
One expert disagrees, stating that the premise of vulnerability reports being special is still true.
I respectfully disagree. The premise is absolutely still true: if someone discovers a critical, exploitable vulnerability in your software, the impact and tradeoffs are exactly the same as they were before LLMs started finding bugs.
However, others argue that the increased volume of reports has made it harder to identify genuine vulnerabilities.
I feel like it’s also been overrun by a lot of spam. As someone running a company, I get 2-5 unsolicited ‘vulnerability reports’ per week. Half of them are an LLM finding some bad CSS on our framer splash page.
Focus Keyword: Vulnerability Reports
