The State of Vulnerabilities in the AI Era
AI-enabled attackers are exploiting faster. Enterprise security teams need continuous security validation to stay ahead.
Synack’s 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report analyzes 11,000+ real-world vulnerabilities from 2024–2025 to reveal how the attack surface is changing, where severity is increasing, and how leading organizations are reducing remediation time.
What 11,000+ vulnerabilities reveal about the AI-era attack surface
Vulnerability volume held roughly flat in 2025, but risk did not. Severity increased, Remote Code Execution findings grew, and AI-enabled adversaries compressed the time between disclosure and exploitation. Synack’s 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report shows why enterprise security teams can no longer rely on periodic testing alone — and how continuous security validation helps organizations find, validate, prioritize, and remediate exploitable risk faster.
+20% YoY
across severities
security missions
Execution findings
What you’ll learn
- Why stable vulnerability volume is still a warning signal in the AI era
- How Synack customers reduced MTTR by 47% across severity levels
- Which attack vectors are accelerating, including RCE, brute force, and content injection
- How AI and LLM security missions are reshaping the enterprise attack surface
- How manufacturing, financial services, government, retail, and technology compare on severity and remediation speed
The report shows how leading organizations are moving beyond periodic testing toward continuous validation — combining AI-driven coverage with human expertise to prove what matters and reduce real exploitable risk.
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