The final numbers for reported vulnerabilities in 2020 are published.  We covered the news when the number of vulnerabilities recorded hit a record for the fourth year in a row.  The US-CERT Vulnerability Database keeps track of new vulnerabilities in production code as they are discovered and assigns each unique vulnerability with a "CVE" number. 

On December 15, 2020 we just hit another milestone with the number of vulnerabilities recorded in the US CERT Vulnerability Database (so far in 2020) exceeding the total count in 2019, marking a fourth record year of vulnerabilities discovered in production code.