CVE: Feature update: search to RSS
Search queries in our CVE app can now be used as RSS feeds! Just follow the instructions at the bottom of the search page.
Search queries in our CVE app can now be used as RSS feeds! Just follow the instructions at the bottom of the search page. It's really easy – promise! ;-)
Backstory and context
Over the last 12 months we have received several requests asking whether we could send out the latest CVEs by email. We quickly decided against it because we wanted to avoid the effort involved in sending emails at scale: although implementation would have been relatively easy, daily operation and monitoring of email dispatch and user registration would have been time-consuming. CVE.threatint.eu is a free platform and should remain so, we therefore must avoid features that generate a high level of effort on our side.
There would also have been effort on the part of the recipients because there is no established format that we could have used for emails, so automated parsing would have been a challenge, too.
However, it has also become apparent that many of our customers do not want their email address to be associated with information about security vulnerabilities, as they do not want to disclose information about their infrastructure and products to attackers.
With this in mind, we decided against email as a push mechanism and for a privacy-friendly pull mechanism with the provision of individual RSS (Atom) feeds, that don't require registration.
