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CISA said the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program should be placed on firmer legal footing, but warned Congress not to impose overly prescriptive rules that could limit the program’s ability to adapt. The debate follows a 2025 funding scare tied to MITRE’s contract, which exposed the risk of relying on a single U.S. federal agreement to support a vulnerability identification system used globally.
Agency officials said CVE governance must stay flexible as artificial intelligence accelerates vulnerability discovery and as the ecosystem becomes more internationally distributed. CISA pointed to proposals that would authorize CVE within the Department of Homeland Security, formalize CISA’s role, require a modernization plan with NIST, and establish a 15-member governing board, while also noting ENISA’s expanding role as both a CVE Numbering Authority and a CVE Root as evidence that the program is moving toward a more federated global model.
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ENISA advanced its role in CVE governance by becoming a CVE Root, a position that oversees groups of CVE Numbering Authorities and supports record quality and onboarding.
Within hours of MITRE's warning, CISA extended the contract supporting CVE operations. CISA later said a broad internal contracting review had caused only a brief renewal delay and that operations continued without disruption.
MITRE warned in April 2025 that government funding supporting operation of the CVE Program was about to expire, exposing fragility in the program's support structure.
ENISA joined the CVE ecosystem as a CVE Numbering Authority, gaining the ability to assign CVE identifiers within its scope.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program was created to assign standardized identifiers to publicly known software vulnerabilities.
CISA said it supports putting the CVE Program on firmer legal footing, while cautioning that overly prescriptive legislation could make the program restrictive and less able to adapt to AI-driven discovery and international federation.
CISA announced a pilot program that would allow selected AI companies to assign CVE identifiers for vulnerabilities discovered using their own models.
The House Rules Committee did not select the CVE-related amendment to the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill for floor consideration, preventing a full House vote on the proposal.
A legislative proposal reported in June would formally authorize the CVE Program within the Department of Homeland Security, clarify CISA's role, require a modernization plan with NIST, and create a 15-member governing board.
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European Union officials said they want to help strengthen and modernize the **Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program** after a 2025 contracting scare involving MITRE raised concerns about the long-term resilience of a system widely used to track and identify software flaws. ENISA cybersecurity official Hans de Vries said EU member states asked the agency to examine how to reinforce the process, arguing that such a critical global mechanism should not rely on a single U.S. government contract, while U.S. policymakers are weighing legislation that could formalize the program and expand **CISA** oversight. Officials and experts also warned that weak governance or political fragility could splinter vulnerability tracking into competing systems, undermining a core pillar of global cyber defense. The debate has also turned to improving the quality and machine-readability of CVE records at issuance, as **AI-enabled** attacks accelerate exploitation and reduce the value of delayed enrichment; CISA said a brief renewal delay in April 2025 did not interrupt operations and that **MITRE** remains the program operator.
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U.S. lawmakers are preparing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would formally establish the **Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)** program within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The proposal follows a spring contracting scare in which MITRE warned that federal backing for CVE could lapse, prompting backlash across the cybersecurity community and renewed concern about the long-term stability of the vulnerability catalog relied on by government, industry and researchers worldwide. The amendment would require **CISA** and the **National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)** to produce a joint modernization plan, create a **15-member CVE Board**, and make vulnerability enrichment a formal part of the program’s mission. If enacted, the measure would give CISA an explicit legal role in managing the globally used system for identifying and tracking software flaws, while increasing congressional oversight and aligning with broader international calls to modernize the program, including support from EU cybersecurity officials.
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