IBM and Red Hat have found and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries through Lightwell, their program for patching open source code that companies already run in production. Companies running the affected libraries are exposed until they apply the fixes. Autonomous AI agents can now combine several minor software weaknesses into one serious attack.
Java library vulnerabilities: IBM and Red Hat fix 400+ previously unknown flaws
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