---
id: 4787
title: "CVE surge: Why the record rise in new vulnerabilities?"
source_domain: yeswehack.com
source_url: "https://www.yeswehack.com/news/cve-surge-record-jump-vulnerabilities"
published_at: "2025-01-28 15:49"
tags: ["ai-security", "attack-surface", "cve", "statistics", "regulation", "vulnerability-trends"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4787"
lang: en
---

# CVE surge: Why the record rise in new vulnerabilities?

## Summary

Why 2024 saw a record 40,009 new CVEs, up 38% year-on-year: expanding attack surfaces, more complex software, AI-accelerated discovery, and rising downstream impact via third-party components.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** yeswehack.com
- **Published:** 2025-01-28 15:49
- **Original:** https://www.yeswehack.com/news/cve-surge-record-jump-vulnerabilities
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4787