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Keypoints
- Vulnerability scanners and CVE feeds often omit end-of-life (EOL) package versions from affected ranges, leaving many vulnerabilities unflagged.
- Industry data shows roughly 5.4 million EOL package versions across major registries, far more than the ~7,000 versions tracked by common public sources.
- HeroDevs reports that about 80% of CVEs on supported releases also affect EOL versions, creating widespread false negative exposure.
- AI-driven vulnerability discovery, exemplified by Project Glasswing, will likely increase findings in unmaintained versions that receive no upstream fixes.
- Mitigation starts with visibility: run EOL scans (such as HeroDevs’ free tool) and never assume scanner silence means safety.