The EU Just Launched Its Own CVE Database — What It Means for Vulnerability Management

On May 13, 2025, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) announced the launch of the European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) — a vulnerability disclosure platform developed under the NIS2 Directive to improve transparency, coordination, and incident response across the EU.

The EUVD’s debut comes at a pivotal moment. The MITRE-operated CVE Program, long considered the global foundation of vulnerability identification, recently secured a short-term extension, prompting renewed discussion around the future of centralized vulnerability infrastructure.

What Is the EUVD?

The EUVD is a centralized platform that aggregates and publishes cybersecurity vulnerability information relevant to ICT products and services in the EU. It draws data from the following sources:

• CVE Records (including coordination with MITRE)
• EU and national CSIRTs
• Vendor advisories and patch disclosures
• Exploitation feeds such as CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Catalog
• Coordinated vulnerability disclosures within the EU

To improve situational awareness, the EUVD offers three primary dashboard views:

• Critical vulnerabilities
• Exploited vulnerabilities
• EU-coordinated vulnerabilities (managed by EU CSIRTs)

Importantly, ENISA now operates as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), which means it can assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities discovered by or reported to European CSIRTs. This strengthens the EU’s sovereignty in managing its cybersecurity exposure and incident response.

Why This Matters: From Global CVEs to Jurisdictional Complexity

Organizations operating globally now face a fragmented vulnerability disclosure landscape. Rather than relying solely on centralized sources like MITRE or the U.S. NVD, security teams must monitor, reconcile, and act on intelligence from multiple region-specific registries — each with unique data formats, scoring criteria, and regulatory obligations.

This trend introduces three key operational challenges:

• Duplication or conflict in CVE data across sources
• Inconsistent exploitability insights and patch availability
• Diverging reporting requirements under evolving frameworks such as NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), FedRAMP, and CMMC

RapidFort’s Role in a Multi-Registry World

The RapidFort Software Attack Surface Management (SASM) platform is designed to meet this complexity head-on. It ingests vulnerability data from multiple trusted sources — including MITRE, EUVD, CISA KEV, and vendor-specific advisories — and contextualizes it using runtime behavior and execution-path intelligence.

With RapidFort, security and DevSecOps teams can:

• Remediate up to 95% of vulnerabilities automatically by removing unused, unreachable software components — with no source code changes
• Generate RBOM™ (Real Bill of Materials™) to document which components are actually loaded and executed in production
• Prioritize vulnerabilities using the RapidRisk Score, which accounts for runtime relevance, exploitability, and contextual risk
• Accelerate compliance readiness for frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, CMMC, and emerging mandates under NIS2 and CRA — without overstating automation

Why CVE Centralization Is Ending — and What Comes Next

The EUVD’s launch signals the decentralization of vulnerability intelligence and a move toward jurisdiction-specific security governance. As a result, organizations need tooling that supports:

• Multi-source CVE ingestion and correlation
• Filtering based on exploitability and runtime presence
• Real-time vulnerability triage
• Audit-aligned reporting tailored to regional compliance frameworks

Static scanners and SBOM-only workflows are no longer sufficient. To manage vulnerability risk at scale, teams need real-time, execution-aware platforms that reduce noise and help prove what matters — and what doesn’t.

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The Bottom Line

The EUVD reinforces a fundamental reality: Software security is now a global, multi-source challenge. For organizations building and shipping software across markets, tracking vulnerabilities is no longer enough. You need to understand which vulnerabilities affect your workloads, which are reachable, and which can be removed entirely before they become a compliance issue or an exploit.

RapidFort delivers that visibility and control — from Dev to Runtime.