threat-intel The Patch Gap: Why Defenders Need to Think in Chains, Not Checklists The article highlights a significant gap between the speed at which attackers discover and exploit vulnerabilities and the speed at which defenders can patch them. Traditional CVSS-based prioritization is inadequate because attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities before patches are available, and vulnerabilities are o… Dark Reading · Aug 10, 2026 High CVE-2024-9474CVE-2024-0012vulnerabilityattack-pathchoke-point