What is CVE remediation in 2026?

This article explains how AI has dramatically increased CVE discovery and overwhelmed the disclosure pipeline—leaving many CVEs in the NVD without severity enrichment—and argues that remediation, not detection, is now the primary bottleneck. It outlines the "upgrade trap" (upgrades causing breakage, absent fixes, or bundled breaking changes), describes mitigation options (screening, migration, upgrading, backporting), and promotes backporting—via Aikido Libraries—as a way to apply fixes to exact package versions in production without upgrading or migrating.