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Bugs in open-source libraries impact 70% of modern software

May 26, 2020

According to the Veracode’s annual State of Software Security report, 70 percent of mobile and desktop applications being used today have at least one security flaw that is the result of the use of an open-source library.

Experts pointed out that every library could be affected by one o more issues which will be inherited from all the applications that use them.

According to Veracode’s annual State of Software Security report, almost any modern application includes open source libraries that implement functionality that would be extremely tedious to write from scratch.

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