Pressure Record: Patch Availability No Longer Governs Remediation Timing

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Assumption Under Stress

Patching resolves exposure.

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CISA added CVE-2025-8110 to the KEV catalog with no patch available and a February 2 federal deadline. ServiceNow patched CVE-2025-12420 in October 2025; public disclosure arrived January 2026, three months after hosted instances were remediated but before many self-hosted customers acted. Fortinet published FG-IR-25-772 for a vulnerability Horizon3.ai reported in August 2025, five months between discovery and advisory. VoidLink exists as a documented capability with no confirmed deployment, meaning defenders must resource against a threat with no incident to trigger action.

In each case, the patch either does not exist, arrived months before disclosure, or follows months after discovery. The window between vulnerability knowledge and remediation availability is not shrinking. It is fragmenting across vendors, researchers, and regulators with no common clock.

Unresolved Tension

Whether patch-centric remediation models remain viable when the gap between known and fixable is measured in months.

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