Plan to resuscitate beleaguered vulnerability database draws criticism 

CyberScoop reports that NIST’s National Vulnerability Database has curtailed publishing key metadata for many vulnerabilities since mid-February due to administrative and resource constraints amid rising data volumes, prompting program lead Tanya Brewer to propose an industry consortium to modernize the platform (customizable alerts, new data types, partial CVE analysis automation) over the next 1–5 years. Stakeholders are split on the plan—some warn it’s too slow to fix an urgent problem, while others are cautiously optimistic—as NVD reallocates staff and prioritizes high-impact items like CISA’s must-patch list and Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates in the interim.