Despite challenges, the CVE program is a public-private partnership that has shown resilience

ronjor · Mar 25, 2025

By Cynthia Brumfield March 24, 2025

In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey, two researchers from the nonprofit R&D corporation MITRE, debuted a concept for security vulnerabilities that laid the groundwork for the common vulnerability and exposures framework (CVE) that organizes information around computer vulnerabilities.
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Twenty-five years later, the CVE program, which assigns a unique record to each reported vulnerability, is in its fifth iteration. It has become a highly valued and integral aspect of how cybersecurity defenders can consistently share information about vulnerabilities and achieve interoperability across threat databases.
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There are now 413 organizations from over 40 countries reporting CVEs, with new reported vulnerabilities soaring to over 40,000, and total CVE records climbing to 270,768 in 2024.
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