Two-Thirds of Open Source Community Unaware of Cyber Resilience Act

**Executive summary:** The OpenSSF warns of widespread unfamiliarity and structural unreadiness for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), finding that many organizations are unaware if the regulation applies, unclear on deadlines and penalties, and heavily reliant on private forks and upstream projects—practices that create technical debt and compliance risk; the report also notes a sharp increase in published CVEs and high-severity findings, stressing the need for operational toolkits, clearer guidance, and community support to close the readiness gap.