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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 28 2019, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the hello-entropy dept.

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a US government-funded resource that does exactly what the name implies-acts as a database of vulnerabilities in software. It operates as a superset of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system, operated by the non-profit Mitre Corporation, with additional government funding. For years, it has been good enough—while any organization or process has room to be made more efficient, curating a database of software vulnerabilities reported through crowdsourcing is a challenging undertaking.

Risk Based Security, the private operator of competing database VulnDB, aired their grievances with the public CVE/NVD system in their 2018 Vulnerability Trends report, released Wednesday, with charged conclusions including "there is fertile grounds for attorneys and regulators to argue negligence if CVE/NVD is the only source of vulnerability intelligence being used by your organization," and "organizations are getting late and at times unreliable vulnerability information from these two sources, along with significant gaps in coverage." This criticism is neither imaginative, nor unexpected from a privately-owned competitor attempting to justify their product.

In fairness to Risk Based Security, there is a known time delay in CVSS scoring, though they overstate the severity of the problem, as an (empirical) research report finds that "there is no reason to suspect that information for severe vulnerabilities would tend to arrive later (or earlier) than information for mundane vulnerabilities."

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/software-vulnerabilities-are-becoming-more-numerous-less-understood/


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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday March 01 2019, @11:08AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @11:08AM (#808631) Homepage Journal

    Nevermind that Javascript is a steaming shitpile with new layers being added on an almost daily basis in an effort to overcome it's shortcomings.

    Last I heard is that the authors of Javascript thought to adapt Scheme (or maybe another Lisp dialect) to run in the browser. But their manager wanted something that looked like C. Javascript was the resulting miscegenation.

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