MITRE CVE Program Funding Halt Imminence
April 15, 2025, 8:20 pm
The MITRE Corporation alerted that its stewardship of the world’s centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program might end shortly because the federal government has chosen not to renew its contract. In tandem, government funding was abruptly halted, casting uncertainty over the continuity of a critical system that monitors and catalogs security flaws in products. This decision is raising concerns among cybersecurity experts who fear that losing established support may disrupt coordinated vulnerability management and delay remediation efforts, potentially impacting both public and private sector security measures.
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MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum has warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs expires today, which could lead to widespread disruption across the global cybersecurity industry. [...]
The MITRE Corporation said on Tuesday that its stewardship of the CVE program may be ending this week because the federal government has decided not to renew its contract with the nonprofit.
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
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