A Dark Reading analysis of Project Glasswing's findings paints a stark picture: the volume of vulnerabilities being discovered is far outpacing the ability of humans to process them. According to the analysis, only a fraction of the bugs identified by the project have reached the disclosure stage, and an even smaller number have been fixed.
The bottleneck appears to be human review, not technical discovery. While automated tools can surface vulnerabilities at scale, each finding still requires manual triage, validation, and coordination before it can be responsibly disclosed. That workflow is struggling to keep up with the incoming stream.
The result is a growing backlog of known-but-undisclosed vulnerabilities. The analysis suggests that until the disclosure pipeline is scaled or redesigned, many findings may linger in limbo, leaving systems exposed even after the underlying issues have been identified.