The Unpatchable Threat: Why Vulnerability Scanners Miss End-of-Life Software

Vulnerability scanners have a critical blind spot: they ignore CVEs in end-of-life software because no patches exist, allowing known public vulnerabilities to accumulate undetected. This makes EOL software actually riskier than zero-days, since attackers need no sophisticated techniques to exploit well-documented flaws. The security industry has overlooked this gap because it's unglamorous, vendors lack financial incentive to flag it, and responsibility falls between security and operations teams.