Software test engineer: Responsible for designing and executing test cases to find bugs and ensure software quality before release. Average annual salary: $128,721.

The 20-year-old bug, dubbed CVE-2024-9143, involves the software triggering an "out-of-bounds memory access," which can cause the program to crash or, in rare cases, execute rogue computer code.

The Costs Of Bugs Software errors are more than just a minor inconvenience. According to CISQ, poor software cost the U.S. economy $2.08 trillion in 2020 alone.