Exposing the CVE Blind Spot: The Metric for Measuring End-of-Life Risk

Standard CVE-based risk metrics fail for end-of-life software, which accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities long after support ends—yet vulnerability scanners report zero CVEs because there are no patches available. The EOL Risk Score fills this measurement gap by quantifying structural lifecycle risk, accounting for how long software has been unsupported, how widely it is deployed, whether vulnerabilities are actively exploited, and whether extended support remains available.