What Sets Flashpoint’s VulnDB Apart? Inside Flashpoint’s 400,000 Vulnerability Milestone and Latest Intelligence Innovations

Flashpoint’s VulnDB, has reached a critical milestone: documenting and detailing over 400,000 vulnerability disclosures. This is a testament to Flashpoint’s long-term commitment for providing independently curated vulnerability intelligence without the limitations, delays, and coverage gaps of public programs such as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) programs.

Independent Vulnerability Intelligence Is More Critical Than Ever

The public vulnerability tracking model has never been perfect and recent volatility regarding CVE’s funding has fueled questions regarding the program’s long-term viability. This follows years of growing frustration with the CVE ecosystem, on top of record slowdowns of analysis by NVD. Currently, there are over 34,000 vulnerabilities awaiting analysis at NVD. All of this makes it all too clear that organizations cannot solely rely on public vulnerability databases alone.

VulnDB: Built for Resilience and Completeness

In today’s market, many “CVE replacements” are often just a replication of CVE and NVD, with either minor changes in appearance or an easier interface to search the same data. However, Flashpoint’s VulnDB is much more—fully mapping to CVE and NVD, while also capturing and detailing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology (OT), software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, APIs, as well as third-party libraries and dependencies. 

VulnDB is independently curated, with our team of expert researchers actively monitoring thousands of sources, collecting, normalizing, and detailing every vulnerability as it is disclosed. This ensures that customers have the full vulnerability intelligence picture, empowering them to identify and address risk faster and more efficiently.

VulnDB sources include:

• Public advisories
• Vendor disclosures
• Developer resources
• Private threat intelligence communities
• Social media
• Threat actor chatter
• Illicit marketplaces

Flashpoint Innovations in Vulnerability Intelligence

Security teams don’t just need a full picture of the vulnerability landscape, they also need faster, better contextualized and applied vulnerability intelligence. Flashpoint has historically been days to weeks faster than the NVD while also being more detailed—containing affected and unaffected versions, exploit availability, solution information, vendor advisories, and considerably more metadata.

Committed to continued innovation, here is how we innovated in just the past year:

1. Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Intelligence: FP KEV

To help better align vulnerability management with real-world threat activity, Flashpoint improved the CISA KEV list, providing customers with an expanded catalog of exploitable vulnerabilities. Easily filtered and searchable within VulnDB, it allows security teams to quickly identify and prioritize the most critical issues before they can be used against them. At this time, the Flashpoint KEV is over three times larger than CISA’s and larger than other commercial alternatives.

2. MITRE ATT&CK Framework Mapping

At the end of last year, Flashpoint integrated the MITRE ATT&CK© framework with VulnDB’s best-in-class exploit intelligence. While the FP KEV promptly notifies customers of newly discovered exploits, this feature provides crucial context into how exploits align with attacker behaviors and the tactics favored by prolific threat actors and advanced persistent threat groups, which are mapped to the vulnerabilities they use.

3. Expanded Threat Actor Chatter Monitoring and New Social Risk Scoring

Flashpoint Ignite’s Social Risk analysis now includes threat actor chatter from Telegram, alongside traditional sources like X (Twitter). This unlocks earlier visibility into exploitation trends, as malicious actors are increasingly using Telegram and other alternative social media platforms to discuss vulnerabilities and share or solicit exploit code.

To further help customers understand this new dimension of vulnerability risk, Flashpoint’s vulnerability intelligence solutions are enhanced with new Social Risk Scores and visual graphing capabilities that track:

1. Volume and mentions across social media and illicit platforms
2. Velocity and amplification of vulnerability-related discussions for a given vulnerability
3. Social risk amplification trends

Using this new feature, customers gain the ability to visualize the momentum of a vulnerability’s “popularity” in illicit marketplaces and forums, without needing to manually sift through thousands of data points—a critical factor in determining which vulnerabilities could move from proof-of-concepts to mass exploitation.

Stay Ahead of Vulnerability Risk Using Flashpoint

Flashpoint’s VulnDB, now encompassing over 400,000 standardized and detailed disclosures, represents a major vulnerability intelligence milestone. Not just a statistic, it represents a living database that is updated in real-time, giving organizations critical information they need to stay ahead of threat actors.

Through Flashpoint’s innovations—such as the FP KEV, integrated MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and improved Social Risk Scoring—Flashpoint’s vulnerability intelligence offerings provide security teams with faster, more contextualized, and ultimately more actionable intelligence. Request a demo and see for yourself why better data matters.