As a small data point I have a >20k downloads Obsidian plugin and it got a CVE on a Beta release due to a bad pathing regex. I feel this would have never happened 2 years ago.
So, I feel the bar for a CVE being issued is WAYYYY lower in 2025+ than before.
[1]: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2024/02/13/linux-is-a-cna/
[2]: https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/how-to-r...
https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/removing...
But then I found this:
https://craci.com/resources/CVE-publication-trends?sev=criti...
Trend for critical CVEs is actually worse, at roughly 25x that of 2020, compared to all CVEs which are roughly 5x compared to 2020.
[0] https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-signals-potential-cve-pro...
Honest question: what would be the criminal purpose for that?
https://www.securityweek.com/cve-and-nvd-a-weak-and-fracture...
The irony of my vibe coded personal site going viral because the site I was using historically was down due to P2PShell...
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-researche...
If so, I fear you're making the opposite point, which is that AI made genuinely new discoveries that were not in its training set, about codebases that were in its training set. It quite literally expanded the horizon of what we know.
I think the whole CVE/CVSS system is completely outdated, and it doesn't reflect the reality of software making for a while now (years). Also. for years, major software providers have been fighting to control their own release logs and security vulnerabilities. Recently, NIST stopped actually analyzing CVE's (one can relate to that), and the fact is that the system only makes sense as 1) vuln database; 2) in the context of responsible discosure; Responsible disclosure is from a non-AI era, where the time between a finding and a release woulds be measured in months, not weeks. Also, from a time where the probability of another human to stumble on that specific vulnerability was quite low. Pre-AI times.
Also, in April 2025 MITRE announced that fundings to the CVE/CWE program would expire, and it took a couple of days for the Trump administration to backpedal from that. We need a global system, not an american one - and clearly, americans should not be in charge of these global programs, as there is no way to isolate the world from their local politics. Their programs, their funding, nothing against it. I just think we, collectively, should have something a bit more robust, and while at it, do it on a quite more modern basis (EU CRA is actually a good start, as it includes SBOM and mandatory reporting).
CVE, CVSS, CPE seem all designed by comittee; CVSS and CPE are a flagrant case of that (try to apply CPE versioning to your own software, you'll get it); Its "what we have now" - there are alternatives, afaik but not that mainstream.
It is in use just because it already is there and to make something new will be tough.
I think we should drop the score entirely. Just give me details and I should be able to make my risk management based on if it is RCE is it local or just info disclosure etc.
Global scoring is something that feels right but in practice it is totally wrong. Biggest damage happens when management that doesn’t understand any of that wants to have excel sheets green.
Also, the linux kernel assigns CVE for anything that can be though as a vulnerability:
> Note, due to the layer at which the Linux kernel is in a system, almost any bug might be exploitable to compromise the security of the kernel, but the possibility of exploitation is often not evident when the bug is fixed. Because of this, the CVE assignment team is overly cautious and assign CVE numbers to any bugfix that they identify. This explains the seemingly large number of CVEs that are issued by the Linux kernel team
In other words, the number is fake
In other words, the method of assigning CVEs hasn't changed, but the number of CVEs has risen sharply.