Experts have doubts in the effectiveness of the CVE database and advised researchers not to rely solely on this threat database when scanning for vulnerabilities in the system.
UMAs stated in the report of the company Risk Based Security, tal solução a fará profissionais de TI perca quase um terço de todas as vulnerabilidades.“If your organization is currently relying on CVE (and most are), finalmente 33% of all disclosed vulnerabilities are completely unknown to you”, — said the company’s cofounder Jake Kouns in the report.
de acordo com a empresa, the problem is that the MITRE team basically waits until researchers or manufacturers inform the organization about the vulnerability to assign a CVE identifier.
portanto, if a specialist does not report a problem and does not request a CVE, the vulnerability will not be entered into the database at all. Em vez de, information about it will be entered into other databases, Por exemplo, BitBucket, SourceForge, GitHub, or in own manufactrer’s databases.
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As stated in the report, many CVEs remain in a “reserved” state for a long time. CVE is reserved if details about it have not yet been published for security reasons.
Contudo, CVE is slow to process the details and update the CVE report for many bugs even after details are in the public domain, the report warns”, - escreve Infosecurity Magazine author Danny Bradbury.
The nonprofit CVE project turned 20 Mês passado, and over time, it covered a relatively small number of vulnerabilities. Contudo, por 2017, the number of vulnerabilities included in it increased by 128%, and every year it becomes more and more.
Problem processing slowed as the organization’s team faced a greater workload, the report said. The CVE program has responded by increasing the number of CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs), which are the organizations that can grant a CVE number for a reported security bug. Mitre is working hard to keep up with the increasing volume of bugs, but no one will deny that it’s a challenge.
