Vulnerability Remediation
We've curated 99 cybersecurity statistics about Vulnerability Remediation to help you understand how organizations are identifying and fixing security flaws in their systems, ensuring stronger defenses against evolving threats in 2025.
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86% of organizations say vulnerability remediation is a critical part of their security strategy.
74% of organizations cite coordinating vulnerability prioritization and remediation as their biggest security issue.
56% of organizations remain concerned they are still exposed to known vulnerabilities that have not yet been remediated in their environments.
Only 26% of critical vulnerabilities were fully remediated by organizations in 2025, a drop from the previous year’s 38%.
The median time for full resolution of critical vulnerabilities went up to 43 days, almost two weeks more than the previous year’s 32 days.
Top-performing organizations have a high-risk finding half-life of 10 days, while bottom-tier organizations have a 249-day half-life—an eight-month gap in exposure.
LLMs have the lowest resolution rate of all application types, with just 38% of high-risk issues being fixed.
The typical organization ultimately resolves 86% of its high-risk findings, but only 52% of high-risk findings are remediated within a five-year time frame.
Of three leading coding agents evaluated (Claude, Codex, and Gemini), Codex finishes with the fewest vulnerabilities and demonstrates stronger remediation behavior during development.
42% of security teams use AI for vulnerability response and remediation.
1% of respondents reported being 'not at all confident' in their organization's ability to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
40% of organizations stated that their remediation processes are manual and ad-hoc in 2025.
40% of respondents indicated 'not enough visibility' as a significant pain point in vulnerability remediation.
Companies that experience tool sprawl report 51% lower remediation confidence compared to those who did not experience tool sprawl in 2025.
22% of respondent organizations are using their CI/CD pipelines to deliver fixes and remediations.
35% of respondent organizations are not currently using their CI/CD pipelines for remediation but want to in 2025.
14% reported using Azure DevOps for tracking vulnerability remediation.
60% of respondents reported that fewer than 5% of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations recurred within a month of remediation in 2025.
35% of respondents cited rollbacks of patches as a cause of vulnerability recurrence.
91% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their organization is improving in its ability to remediate vulnerabilities in 2025, according to a survey of respondents.