The EOL Risk Score: Why CISOs and DevOps Teams Are Measuring Software Risk Wrong (opens in new tab)

Your vulnerability scanner gives every EOL package a clean bill of health — zero CVEs, no alerts, nothing to see here. That silence is not safety. It is a measurement failure. Here is the metric that fills the gap. May 15, 2026 · endoflife.ai The Metric Everyone Is Using Is Wrong Ask any security engineer how they measure software risk and they will tell you the same thing: CVE count. How many known vulnerabilities does this package have? What is the CVSS score? Is it in the NVD? Is there a p...