Not to be over dramatic but..
The lights are dimming on one of the most trusted cornerstones of cybersecurity. On April 16, 2025, MITRE’s funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) will expire—disrupting a system that has quietly underpinned the entire vulnerability management ecosystem for over two decades. For developers, CISOs, and remediation engineers alike, this isn’t just a budget line item. It’s a destabilizing shift with sweeping consequences across the entire software supply chain.
Gone—or at least severely slowed—are the days of consistent, centralized, and machine-readable vulnerability records that tools like Semgrep, Snyk, and others used to correlate code with exploitable flaws. The ripple effects? Delayed patching. Blind spots in threat prioritization. And a growing disconnect between DevSecOps and real-time application security posture management (ASPM).
Correlation Engines Step Up: Phoenix Security’s Role in the New Vulnerability Landscape
The degradation of NVD and CVE’s infrastructure is creating a vacuum—one that Phoenix Security’s Code-to-Cloud Correlation Engine is designed to fill. As a forward-leaning ASPM solution, Phoenix doesn’t just wait for vulnerability records to trickle through broken pipelines. It maps, contextualizes, and correlates across source code, CI/CD systems, container environments, and cloud infrastructure.
Rather than relying solely on CVEs, Phoenix weaves in enriched threat intelligence, exploitability data, and business context to give remediation teams actionable visibility—even in a post-CVE world. Its correlation engine uses real-time telemetry and advanced rule sets to track vulnerabilities at every stage of the SDLC, from semgrep findings in code to runtime signals from container orchestrators.
This isn’t patch management. It’s vulnerability navigation with precision.
Why CVE and NVD Mattered—And What Happens Without Them
The value of the CVE program wasn’t just in assigning a number. It was in accelerating context:
- Timelines: CVEs offered public timestamps for when flaws were discovered, acknowledged, and patched.
- Cross-vendor intelligence: One identifier linked proof-of-concepts, vendor advisories, and threat feeds.
- Automation: Tools parsed CVE data to auto-enrich alerts and drive ticketing workflows.
Now, with CVE processing fragmented and NVD data bottlenecked by legacy ingestion workflows, organizations are left in limbo. The absence of centralized, authoritative records slows threat modeling, disrupts software bill-of-materials (SBOM) tracking, and breaks automation pipelines across DevSecOps tooling.
Security teams accustomed to daily triage via CVSS scores and CVE IDs are now turning to platform-native intelligence like Phoenix Security’s remediation engine to replace lagging upstream sources with faster, context-rich correlations.
Challenges
- New CVE will be allocated but not distributed
- CWE and other will only be enriched by CNA authority
- API for now remains available but with unknown time to live
From Database Dependency to Correlation-First Security
The CVE shutdown isn’t a temporary hiccup. It’s a signal that the industry’s reliance on static vulnerability records—often weeks delayed and semantically thin—was always a brittle foundation. In the face of CNAs struggling to assign CVEs and NIST’s backlog swelling under submission overload, the future of vulnerability management must evolve.
Phoenix Security is already operating in that future. Its ASPM engine doesn’t just tag vulnerabilities—it understands their path from code commit to runtime, flags exposure windows, and prioritizes based on exploitability, reachability, and business impact.
Think of it as an always-on, AI-powered fusion center for code-to-cloud security—unshackled from centralized databases and deeply integrated into the environments that matter.
What Comes Next?
While MITRE’s historical CVE data will remain accessible via GitHub, and CNAs may continue issuing identifiers in isolation, the era of unified vulnerability intelligence is behind us.
This crisis doesn’t just affect vulnerability researchers. It impacts everyone building, deploying, or defending software. The good news? Tools like Phoenix Security are already adapting, already correlating, and already pushing vulnerability management into its next generation—one where remediation speed, context-aware prioritization, and cross-layer visibility define resilience.
At Phoenix Security we stood up our own threat intelligence and vulnerability database. whilst fetching from NVD we secure different sources
How Phoenix Security Can Help
Organizations often face an overwhelming volume of security alerts, including false positives and duplicate vulnerabilities, which can distract from real threats. Traditional tools may overwhelm engineers with lengthy, misaligned lists that fail to reflect business objectives or the risk tolerance of product owners.
Phoenix Security offers a transformative solution through its Actionable Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), powered by AI-based Contextual Quantitative analysis and innovative Threat Centric approach . This innovative approach correlates runtime data with code analysis and leverages the threats that are more likely to lead to zero day attacks and ransomware to deliver a single, prioritized list of vulnerabilities. This list is tailored to the specific needs of engineering teams and aligns with executive goals, reducing noise and focusing efforts on the most critical issues. Why do people talk about Phoenix
• Automated Triage: Phoenix streamlines the triage process using a customizable 4D risk formula, ensuring critical vulnerabilities are addressed promptly by the right teams.
• Contextual Deduplication: Utilizing canary token-based traceability, Phoenix accurately deduplicates and tracks vulnerabilities within application code and deployment environments, allowing teams to concentrate on genuine threats.
• Actionable Threat Intelligence: Phoenix provides real-time insights into vulnerabilities’ exploitability, combining runtime threat intelligence with application security data for precise risk mitigation.
By leveraging Phoenix Security, you not only unravel the potential threats but also take a significant stride in vulnerability management, ensuring your application security remains up to date and focuses on the key vulnerabilities.
