GCVE launches as a decentralized system for tracking software vulnerabilities

A European cybersecurity organization has launched a decentralized system for identifying and numbering software security vulnerabilities, introducing a fundamental shift in how the global technology community could track and manage security flaws. The Global CVE Allocation System, or GCVE , will be maintained by The Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) as an alternative to the traditional Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program, which narrowly avoided shutdown last April when the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency initially failed to renew its contract with MITRE, the nonprofit that operates the CVE system. A last-minute extension averted immediate collapse, but the near-miss exposed the 25-year-old program’s dependence on a single funding source and tri