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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, launched in late October 1999, has not only marked its presence but has become a pivotal force in shaping how we perceive and manage cybersecurity threats. A Journey Through Time The CVE program emerged as a beacon, standardizing how vulnerabilities are identified, shared, and mitigated. From its inception … Read more

The Last 100+ Days The NVD posted the notice below on its webpage in mid-February. Since then, nearly 13,000 CVEs have not been enriched with CWE, CVSS, and CPE data.  The vulnerability management community was told that it would be addressed at Vulncon this year. At the conference, we were told the enrichment would restart … Read more

Every year, I get asked, “How many CVEs do you think will be published this year?“ I am always willing to take a guess, but last year, I read Time Series Forecasting in Python. As I started to read more about the Kalman Filter, I figured it would work great for predicting CVE growth, so … Read more

2023 marked another year of record growth in CVE data, and I thought it fitting to kick off the new year by delving into these statistics and showcasing some of the more interesting data points. CVEs By The Numbers We ended 2023 with 28,902 published CVEs, up over 15% from the 25,081 CVEs published in … Read more

Hacker Summer Camp, as it is colloquially known, is three security conferences that are all next week in Las Vegas. The three conferences that makeup Security Summer Camp are: While preparing for these conferences, I dug through their schedules and picked out the talks I was most interested in catching. BSides Las Vegas BSides Las … Read more

With the first half of 2023 over, I figured I would take some time and review the data and highlight some of the most interesting data points so far this year. This GitHub repo contains the code for all the data and graphs this blog uses. By The Numbers So far this year, there have … Read more

Reference Rot (also called linked rot) is when hyperlinks, over time, cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or permanently unavailable. Tod Beardsley from the CVE board gave a talk at the 2023 CVE Global Summit called ‘Link Rot: The … Read more

2022 was a record-breaking growth year for CVE data, and I figured it would be a great way to start the new year by going through the data and highlighting some of the most interesting data points. All the data and graphs used in this blog are available in this GitHub repo. CVEs By The … Read more

The National Vulnerability Database plays a vital role in the CVE publication process that many people may overlook or not know they are responsible for. After MITRE publishes a CVE, the NVD enriches it with data points that make it actionable by security companies and professionals. Some of these data points include:CWECVSS 3.1 Base ScoreCPE … Read more

For a recent project, I needed all the NVD CVE and EPSS data in Elasticsearch and couldn’t find an easy way to do it, so I built CVElk. CVElk quickly builds a local Elastic Stack using docker compose with the help of a simple shell and python script. Philipp Krenn from Elastic also contributed an updated dashboard … Read more