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Generated vulnerability reports bury the national database

development2026-02-26

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AI-generated vulnerability reports have overwhelmed the National Vulnerability Database by a hundred to two hundred times, burying it under 30,000 CVEs.

Reported metric: 100-200x / 30,000 CVEs

Reporting date: 2026-02-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The same capability that finds real vulnerabilities drowns the registry that tracks them.

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Generated vulnerability reports bury the national database
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-26
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-26-nvd-buried-under-generated-reports
Claim: AI-generated vulnerability reports have overwhelmed the National Vulnerability Database by a hundred to two hundred times, burying it under 30,000 CVEs.
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- Welcome to February 26, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-26-2026
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