Inspector general finds NIST mistakes have made vulnerability database ineffective https://therecord.media/nist-mistakes-vulnerability-database-inspector-general
Inspector general finds NIST mistakes have made vulnerability database ineffective

NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) backlog mushroomed from 13,000 unprocessed security vulnerabilities in February 2024 to more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, “undermining the NVD’s utility and public trust," according to an inspector general report.

@patrickcmiller who could have predicted that an entire ecosystem of bureaucracy for figuring out just how little to care about security would eventually find the floor
@patrickcmiller the nist db has always been pretty bad really