Research of the ratio of detected vulnerabilities in different software products and detection dynamics

The article describes the results obtained with automated tool for gathering and indexing information about vulnerabilities in software products. The tool named SCAN Project was developed within the scope of «Infotecs Academy» research and collects data from both open and private sources. The collected information about amount of vulnerabilities in various software products was analyzed and the conclusion about correlation of this amount and product popularity was made. Also the article contains an analysis of correlation between dynamics of vulnerability finding and product›s popularity variations according to expert community opinion.