Tag: MITRE
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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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APT Naming Woes Redux (Bonus ‘DOJ’ Oops!)
One aspect of vulnerability intelligence is also doing a best-faith effort to track the threat actors that are using the vulnerabilities. While that information often isn’t published, when it is we should include it. For example, less than 1% of data breaches publish the vulnerability associated with the initial compromise, and that is often the…
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Has CWE Jumped the Shark?
The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a MITRE run, community-developed list of common software and hardware weaknesses (Wikipedia Page). The project defines a “weakness” as “a condition in a software, firmware, hardware, or service component that, under certain circumstances, could contribute to the introduction of vulnerabilities.” This taxonomy has several uses but they tend to…
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Why Don’t You Fix CVE?
Historically when I pointed out problems in anything, I wasn’t the best at offering solutions. Sometimes I simply had none because the problem was complex and the solutions I came up with were problematic themselves. Other times I had ideas, but they were fairly high-level and abstract and I didn’t want to be like the…
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CVE Farming – Problem & Solution
Blog Origins In the last year or two, I have increasingly used the term “CVE farming” in conversations and LinkedIn posts [1]. This has led a few people to ask what it meant and I gave a very cliff notes version of the answer. I started taking notes for this blog a while back expecting…
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MITRE’s Phoning in New CNAs
On December 17, 2024, MITRE announced five new CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) on their Twitter feed as well as their news page. However, there were actually seven added according to the CNAs page based on tracking it daily. Last year, when I asked about a discrepancy in tracking the CNAs, MITRE promptly replied to clarify.…
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MITRE Got Popped; A Bit of Irony and Perspective
I know, “don’t kick someone when they are down“, but I have a history of working on a project that catalogs just such incidents. Yesterday, MITRE announced that they had been compromised by a nation-state actor, but didn’t provide much detail. Bleeping Computer reported that the compromise was due to a zero-day vulnerabilities in an…
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Rebuttal: A blended look at what makes the CVE program try to tick
A few days ago, Tod Beardsley published an article on SC Magazine titled “An inside look at what makes the CVE Program tick“. Overall the article is well-written and offers some insights into MITRE, CVE, and their “CNA” program or CVE Numbering Authorities. Beardsley does a good job enumerating some basics about the program, the…
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Sharks Are Scary but Worry About Mosquitoes
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com and was included in the 2021 Mid Year Vulnerability QuickView Report.] It seems like every day that we hear about a new hack and read headlines that tell us that so-called advanced persistent threats (APT) are compromising major organizations. These APT and nation-state actors have incredible skill and seemingly…
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SolarWinds: Sitting on Undisclosed Vulnerabilities
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] SolarWinds was in the news last year, as the victim of an attack that compromised its Orion Platform software by inserting a backdoor into it, allowing for remote code execution. This attack has had an incredible impact on the security industry and recently, interest in the SolarWinds breach has…