The clock starts when a 0-day surfaces. How long before attackers strike?
Attackers often exploit new vulnerabilities before defenders can react, sometimes before the vulnerability even gets a public ID (a CVE). Ethiack Zero is a live tracker of that race between attackers and defenders.
Zero is Ethiack’s public record of emerging 0-days. It turns early signals and patches into a working proof of exploit, then publishes how fast it validates each vulnerability (time-to-validateTime-to-Validate: how long it takes Zero to confirm a signal is exploitable, from first ingestion.) next to how fast attackers exploited it (time-to-exploitTime-to-Exploit: how long after public disclosure attackers take to exploit a vulnerability in the wild.).
Vulnerability Time-to-validate (TTVTime-to-Validate: how long it takes Zero to confirm a signal is exploitable, from first ingestion.)live
How fast Ethiack Zero proves a vulnerability is exploitable. Each dot is one vulnerability. The further left, the earlier it was confirmed. The centre line is the moment the vulnerability was fully disclosed on cve.org.
−8d−6d−4d−2dt=0The moment cve.org publishes the CVE in full.+4d+8d+12d+16d+20d+24d
validated before cve.org publicationvalidated after cve.org publicationvalidatingvalidated but not publishedConfirmed, but cve.org has not published a CVE yet, so there is no t = 0. It sits at how long ago we confirmed it, as if the CVE were published now, and moves left until it is.
Vulnerability Timeline
From first warning to first attack. The typical journey of a new vulnerability, using median times. Time zero is the official disclosure of the vulnerability on cve.org.
step 1
signal ingested
0m
A new vulnerability surfaces
step 2
validating
3h 21m
How fast Zero starts validating it
step 3
validated
+4h 53m
How fast we confirm if it's exploitable
step 4
t = 0, CVE published
t = 0
t=0: the CVE goes public
step 5
Attack confirmed (KEV)
2d
How fast an attacker exploits this in the wild
Exploit live feed
Live Feed
Every vulnerability Ethiack Zero is tracking, right now. Each card is one vulnerability and shows where it stands. New ones appear as they surface.
