Cybersecurity Alarms Sound as CVE Program Funding Ceases

[rbc]

Warnings are being sounded over the risk to global cybersecurity posed by the imminent disruption or management shutdown of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program. A fix could be forthcoming in the form of a stand-alone foundation, although details and funding for the new organization remain unclear.

Federal contracting firm Mitre, which manages the CVE and other programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration list of software and hardware weaknesses, issued an urgent Tuesday letter to CVE board members, warning that "the current contracting pathway for Mitre to develop, operate and modernize CVE and several other related programs, such as CWE," hadn't been renewed by the U.S. government and would expire within 24 hours.
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Cybersecurity Alarms Sound as CVE Program Funding Ceases