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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1201240900140.23800@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:10:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...-smtp.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id assignment dates
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>> We do not publish any dates related to disclosure, patch, or vendor
>> notification; interested parties can consult other databases that explicitly
>> track this information, such as OSVDB.
>
> Just curious, why not? It seems like this kind of information would
> be invaluable for researchers interested anthropological/statistical
> studies of security vulnerabilities.
Despite public perception, CVE is *not* a vulnerability database (although
the National Vulnerability Database [NVD], which extends CVE, *is*). For
CVE, our primary role has always been to provide standard vulnerability
identifiers that everybody can use, so our analysis is focused on that
particular task, which keeps us busy enough :-) Tracking
disclosure-related information is outside the scope of our project (and
finding this information can take more time than you'd expect). We use an
imprecise notion of disclosure date so we can determine which year to
place in the CVE-YYYY-nnnn identifier, but that's it.
I completely agree that tracking this kind of information is important,
and I've personally wanted to see disclosure-related stats for years. I
specifically mentioned OSVDB because they are trying to track this
information at a greater level of detail than any other effort I know of.
And, by virtue of being an *open source* vulnerability database, others
can contribute to it.
- Steve
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