Tag: CVE
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Captain Obvious Audits the NVD
During my recent trip to the East Coast several people linked an article from Recorded Future to me since it was on a topic I have written extensively about. The article covered a May 26 report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Commerce that was summarized as “mistakes have…
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NVD Gives Up
Since 2024, representatives from NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) have given a presentation at VulnCon with updates to the program. This has been where news broke about significant changes, admissions, and omissions. The talks, typically 30 minutes, are certainly not enough time to tell us what the industry needs to know and leaves no time…
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Wait… We Needed That CNA Rule?! A Complaint =)
It’s one of those rules you’d never think we needed until something happens… On March 27, a VulnDB (not to be confused with VulDB) analyst noticed that a CVE description had a line appended that basically advertised the service of the assigning CNA. CVE-2026-4963 had a pretty standard description from VulDB (not to be confused with…
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What Do 2025 CVE Numbers Mean? An Intro.
[This was originally my proposed introduction for Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report. Due to the style of the report and covering a lot more intelligence sectors than vulnerabilities, only pieces of this were used. So I am publishing the entire original draft here for posterity.] The fact that there were over 48,000 CVEs published…
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Zero Day Clock – All The Pieces Matter
Last week, a colleague shared a link to the “Zero Day Clock“, a web site that has a substantial number of signatories, including some big names. I want to talk extensively about the clock because it makes at least one significant mistake and points out what the data means along with a comparison to another…
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It’s 2024 and Netscout Doesn’t Understand CVE
[Quick update! This was titled ‘2026’, but Josh Bressers pointed out I missed that Netscout’s blog is from 2024. It came up a few days on a Google Alert so I mistakenly assumed it was a new blog. I have updated the title, but the URL slug will still say 2026. Either way, I think…
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The Database That Shouldn’t Have Been Continues To Fail The Community
[This article was originally published on Dark Reading, titled “Hand CVE Over to the Private Sector“. Note that it underwent editing by the staff there. Below is my original version and this copy is titled the way I had proposed.] Created in 1999, the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE), now dubbed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, was…
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Bob’s “CVE Quality-by-Design Manifesto” – The Hit and Misses
Almost every time Bob Lord blogs, I feel the need to write a rebuttal to what is arguably abject stupidity and shortsightedness. One he published a couple days ago, titled “CVE Quality-by-Design Manifesto“, is missing several core concepts in the realm of vulnerability intelligence. While his overall point is certainly valid, the order in which…
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Shadow, Ghost, and Phantasmawhatever Vulnerabilities – The Reality
Back in September of 2024, I took some notes on a blog I wanted to write about “Shadow” vulnerabilities, based on a corporate blog with a poor concept and misunderstanding of CVE. The title was to be “Shadow Vulnerabilities – Rebuttal” and pretty straight-forward. Vulnerability life is crazy when you help manage a true vulnerability…
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Rest In Peace IBM X-Force Vulnerability Database
Within the vulnerability ecosystem, the CVE project / vulnerability database is certainly the most well-known. Over the past 30 years many others have come and gone, and others are still around. Some of you will recognize SecurityFocus BID, Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB), Secunia, VulnDB, OSV, and others. Started in 1997, there is another that…