Forrester’s recent blog by Eric Nost, Mitregeddon Averted, But Fragility in CVE Processes Remain, shines a much-needed spotlight on the systemic challenges facing the CVE and NVD ecosystem from the industry analyst perspective.
At VulnCheck, we understand how the increasing demand for timely, reliable, and actionable vulnerability intelligence is straining legacy processes, and we agree: the underlying fragility isn’t just a governance issue, it’s an operational challenge.
Eric’s post rightly points to the growing complexity in coordinating disclosures across a global ecosystem of vendors, researchers, coordinators, and consumers. It also calls out how uncertainty in CVE issuance and NVD publication timelines create risk, not just reputational, but operational and security-related for anyone building products or defending their organization.
This echoes exactly what we hear from our customers and partners, when CVE data is late, incomplete, or missing context, it slows down triage and hampers effective vulnerability management - it disrupts the ability to respond to threats.
What is real is this - security product teams and enterprise defenders are under increasing pressure to act fast, prioritize effectively, and reduce risk. When foundational systems like the CVE program and NVD show signs of strain, the ripple effects are immediate.
VulnCheck’s Take
We believe there is a path forward, one that doesn’t rely on patching over governance gaps, but instead complements existing infrastructure with faster, richer, and more contextualized intelligence.
That’s why VulnCheck continues to innovate and invest in:
- Rapid Vulnerability Ingestion and Enrichment - we detect and process CVEs in near real-time, frequently identifying vulnerabilities before they’re fully cataloged in NVD.
- Exploitation Context - VulnCheck doesn’t stop at the CVE. We layer in exploit intelligence, PoC validation, and in-the-wild observations to help teams prioritize threats based on what’s actually being weaponized.
- Redundancy Where It Matters - when NVD availability faltered, VulnCheck stepped up by maintaining access to NVD 1.0 through our Community tier - and then subsequently our VulnCheck NVD++ featuring significant enrichments and API dependability This ensured continuity for the many organizations whose workflows depend on timely CVE data.
This is Relevant to Product-builders and Enterprise Response
As Forrester notes, “the vulnerability disclosure process is, and always has been, fragile.” That fragility shows up in different ways depending on your role:
For Product Leads at cybersecurity companies - - you're building threat detection, asset management, or prioritization tools that rely on CVE and NVD as a baseline.
But when that data is delayed, incomplete, or stripped of context, your product suffers — and so does customer trust. Integrating richer exploit intelligence, better timelines, and verified evidence of exploitation gives your platform an edge in accuracy and timeliness.
What do product teams get from VulnCheck?
- Near real-time CVE ingestion and exploit PoC curration
- Exploitation timelines to support risk decisions
- Full-scale internet monitoring across 500+sources for complete global vulnerability and exploit intelligence on ALL CVEs to enhance your product and enable new features
What do CISOs and enterprise defenders need? First, the reliance on vulnerability intelligence to drive prioritization informs teams on what to patch, what to monitor, what to escalate.
However, when the CVE process breaks down, the NVD is backlogged, or CISA is over a month late in adding exploited vulnerabilities to its KEV, teams are left with blind spots. Worse, attackers don’t wait for the paperwork to be filed or for data to be curated - they exploit delays.
Where VulnCheck helps:
- Early detection of vulnerabilities before they are analyzed by NISTe NVD
- Evidence-based exploit intelligence (not just theoretical) before they hit the CISA KEV
- Risk-focused enrichment to help you cut through CVE noise and prioritize what matters
- Full-scale internet monitoring across 500+sources for complete global vulnerability and exploit intelligence on ALL CVEs for complete and timely visibility to enable response actioning
Building Resilience While Speeding Up Threat Response
VulnCheck supports the important role of NIST NVD, the CVE program, and the CISA KEV for that matter. However, security teams are demanding more actionable data at faster speeds to make the right decisions which is why they are turning to VulnCheck.
To that point, the objective we’re after is to reinforce these data feeds with more intelligence to help build a more robust, distributed ecosystem that balances central coordination with independent validation, augmentation and associations to emerging threat indicators.
Forrester’s blog gets this right: “we need to evolve.” We agree with Forrester: fixing the CVE/NVD pipeline isn’t just about governance — it’s about resilience. And resilience comes from distribution, context, and operational redundancy.
At VulnCheck, we’re already helping the market evolve to move faster, prioritize vulnerabilities better, and maintain resiliency in the face of an increasingly chaotic vulnerability landscape.That’s why VulnCheck continues to act as both a complement and a failsafe for customers, partners and the entire cybersecurity ecosystem.
There’s a reason that over 100 cybersecurity products and thousands of consumers have either integrated VulnCheck intelligence, or ship with VulnCheck intelligence today. And our intelligence integrates directly into the workflows of some of the most sophisticated threat response workflows that help protect our critical infrastructure, national security and our global economy.
If you’re building security products or protecting a large enterprise, now’s the time to rethink your dependency on legacy processes — and lean into a model that prioritizes operational speed and exploit-informed accuracy.
About Vulncheck
VulnCheck is helping organizations not just to solve the vulnerability prioritization challenge - we’re working to help equip any product manager, security team and threat hunting team to get faster and more accurate intelligence with infinite efficiency using VulnCheck solutions. We knew that defenders needed better data, faster across the board, in our industry. So that’s what we deliver to the market. We deliver key insights on vulnerability management, exploitation and major trends we can extrapolate from our dataset to continuously support practitioners.