diff -u b/core/modules/update/src/ProjectSecurityData.php b/core/modules/update/src/ProjectSecurityData.php
--- b/core/modules/update/src/ProjectSecurityData.php
+++ b/core/modules/update/src/ProjectSecurityData.php
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
    * For the sake of example, assume that the currently installed version of
    * Drupal is 8.7.11 and that static::CORE_MINORS_WITH_SECURITY_COVERAGE is 2.
    *
-   * Before the release of Drupal 8.8.0, this function would would 2.
+   * Before the release of Drupal 8.8.0, this function would return 2.
    *
    * After the release of Drupal 8.8.0 and before the release of 8.9.0, this
    * function would return 1 to indicate that the next minor version release