By Raphael Veloso
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 01:42:00
RAPHAEL VELOSO
News Editor
IBM and Red Hat said Lightwell has remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries and that Lightwell Clearinghouse is now generally available to enterprise customers.
The announcement expands Lightwell from identifying software weaknesses to fixing open source components already running in production systems.
Both companies are framing the effort around a problem facing large organisations that rely on ageing but still widely used software libraries. Many security tools can flag potential issues, but businesses often still need engineering work to create patches for older software versions without disrupting live applications.
IBM and Red Hat said the 400-plus vulnerabilities were previously unknown and were found in common Java libraries used across enterprise environments. The work…