The industry-wide program for documenting hardware and software vulnerabilities suffers from fluctuating funding and insufficient oversight, according to a more than year-long investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “The historical practices for managing the…program are clearly insufficient,” members of the committee wrote in letters Monday to the Department of Homeland Security, which sponsors the program, and the not-for-profit MITRE Corp., which maintains it. “Barring significant improvements, they will likely lead again to challenges that have direct, negative impacts on stakeholders across society.” The program in question, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, has for nearly two decades been a common lexicon for researchers and companies that document security flaws. But the program has experienced a significant backlog as some researchers have struggled to get a response to their submissions. MITRE has undertaken reforms of the program, but House lawmakers say the “root causes” of the program’s woes – its lack […]
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