> The reported security vulnerabilities study shows that sys-tems with a low dependency freshness score are more than four times as likely to co

> The reported security vulnerabilities study shows that sys-tems with a low dependency freshness score are more than four times as likely to contain security issues in these depen-dencies. This confirmed the relationship between the security quality factor of a system and its dependency freshness rating, although no claims of causation could be made https://ericbouwers.github.io/papers/icse15.pdf#page=9&zoom=160,-67,385 https://ericbouwers.github.io/papers/icse15.pdf#page=9&zoom=...