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Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies
From: Tim <tim-security () sentinelchicken org>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:07:40 -0800
The level of frustration in the research community has been growing, with steady calls for a new CVE-like solution that is designed to address these needs in a more effective way. I greatly appreciate the work that has been done, but at this point CVE is becoming less useful, less relevant - if this isn't addressed, my expectation is that a CVE-like solution will be adopted by the community, and researchers will begin moving away from requesting CVEs.
The CVE system is clearly breaking down. I think we need a system that is less moderated and more content driven. I imagine a simple site, which looks like a stripped-down bug tracker. Let's suppose it acts like this: * Any researcher can post "claims" about vulnerabilities. This assigns an identifier immediately. * Claims about vulnerabilities may be reviewed, eventually, by an authority whose job it is to be sure the claim is associated properly with a real product/version and that the product owners are notified through an automated process (e.g. "security@..."). * Product owners can respond to claims, which will appear along side the claim. Links to patches or refutations can be included. * No moderation required. Let the public decide if they believe the researcher or vendor. If a moderator does bother to look over the content, they could deduplicate/link issues together and address any confusion, but beyond that, it isn't their job to decide what is a vulnerability and what isn't. * All information posted in this system exists publicly forever. Links to external content (that isn't well represented in the posting) are frowned upon, since the Internet Archive clearly can't keep up with everything. We need an archive that doesn't go away. Ok, beat it up. tim
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- Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Kurt Seifried (Mar 04)
- Re: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Art Manion (Mar 04)
- RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Mike Prosser (Mar 04)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Adam Caudill (Mar 04)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Tim (Mar 04)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Zach W. (Mar 04)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies mark (Mar 05)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Larry Cashdollar (Mar 05)
- RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Mike Prosser (Mar 04)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Alan Coopersmith (Mar 06)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (Mar 09)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Alan Coopersmith (Mar 09)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (Mar 10)
- Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Tim (Mar 10)
- Re: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Art Manion (Mar 04)
- Re: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct impact to researchers/companies Adam Caudill (Mar 05)