Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member

Kent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through social media that the system he helped create was just hours away from losing funding.

"Another board member gave me a call and said: 'What the heck?'" Landfield recalled in an interview with The Register, although "heck" wasn't exactly the term used, he added.

"But I went, and looked at the letter and said: 'Wait a minute, that should be in my inbox, because it is addressed to the board,'" Landfield said.

He's referring to the April 15 letter seen around the world after being shared on Bluesky. It opened with, "Dear CVE Board Member," and was signed by Yosry Barsoum, MITRE's vice president and director at the Center for Securing the Homeland.

Not-for-profit outfit MITRE, based in Massachusetts and Virginia, has had a contract with the ...