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#8 The Record threat-intel June 01, 2026 at 20:28 UTC

Inspector general finds NIST mistakes have made vulnerability database ineffective

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An inspector general report found that NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD) backlog grew from 13,000 unprocessed vulnerabilities in February 2024 to over 27,000 by end of 2025, critically undermining the database's utility as a cornerstone of patch management and risk prioritization workflows. The report directly attributes the degradation to NIST management failures. Security teams relying on NVD for CVE enrichment and CVSS scores are operating with increasingly stale and incomplete data.

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