Vulnerabilities Are Being Exploited the Same Day They're Disclosed—What’s Your Patch Plan?

In just the first quarter of 2025, 159 CVEs were exploited in the wild. Even more alarming, 28.3% of those attacks happened within 24 hours of disclosure. The takeaway? If you're not patching immediately, you're already behind. And if you're running legacy or end-of-life (EOL) software without a support lifeline, the risks compound.

This post unpacks the urgent need for rapid CVE patching and how HeroDevs’ Never-Ending Support helps customers beat attackers to the punch—even for unsupported systems.

The Threat Moves Fast—Can You?

Attackers aren’t waiting. Over a quarter of exploited vulnerabilities in Q1 were weaponized within a day of going public. That's a massive shift in risk velocity—there’s no buffer window anymore. If a CVE goes public today, an exploit may be circulating tomorrow.

Every hour that goes by without a patch is an open invitation for bad actors. Delays increase breach risk, disrupt compliance, and leave critical systems exposed. That’s especially dangerous for teams still relying on frameworks, tools, or libraries that no longer get official support.

The Real Cost of Delay

Let’s be blunt: delayed patching can cost you everything.

• 20% of data breaches stem from known vulnerabilities
  
  
• Exploit code often drops within hours of a CVE being published
  
  
• Legacy systems are targeted precisely because they're less likely to be patched
  
  

The traditional “wait for the next release” cycle is a liability. And trying to migrate off legacy tools in a panic only adds chaos.

What If Legacy Didn’t Mean Vulnerable?

That’s where HeroDevs comes in.

With Never-Ending Support, you get day-zero CVE patching—even for frameworks that are long past their end-of-life date. We monitor the latest disclosures and drop fixes fast, giving your dev and security teams the edge they need.

Here’s what makes it different:

• Proactive Monitoring: We track vulnerabilities in the libraries you still depend on—even after the original maintainers move on.
  
  
• Rapid Patch Delivery: Patches are often shipped within 24 hours of disclosure—sometimes before the CVE is even public.
  
  
• Plug-and-Play Fixes: Drop-in patches that don’t require major refactoring or risky upgrade paths.
  
  
• Zero-Day Protection for Legacy: Because attackers don’t care how old your software is—only how vulnerable it is.

Security Without Sacrifice

When you can patch fast—even in legacy environments—you get:

• Reduced breach risk: Eliminate exposure before attackers can act
  
  
• Extended ROI: Keep running critical legacy systems without compromise
  
  
• Compliance-ready ops: Stay aligned with security frameworks that demand timely vulnerability remediation
  
  
• No upgrade panic: Take your time planning migrations, without the fear of falling behind
  
  

This is modern security for not-so-modern software.

Contact Us to Stay Ahead of the Next Exploit

You don’t need to gamble with vulnerabilities—or scramble every time a new CVE hits. With HeroDevs, you’ll be confident to keep building, shipping, and securing, even on legacy codebases.

Let’s talk. Contact us today to lock down your legacy.