A Vulnerability Management Crisis: The Issues with CVE

For decades, the cybersecurity industry has relied on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program to standardize vulnerability documentation and guide threat intelligence. The program assigns a unique identifier to each discovered security vulnerability. Then, it ranks the vulnerability’s severity using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).Despite the widespread reliance on CVE, the system has had few updates over the many years that it has existed. We have found that the…