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by PowerBar 1912 days ago
Agreed. For me CVE's serve 2 purposes. The first is to check if there are any known exploits in the currently-shipping version of a piece of software. The second is as a starting point in evaluating how the company, or community, responds to reports of exploits.

I'll take a problem from a company that published software with an embarrassingly bad security hole that thanked the reported and issued a fix immediately over a company with a hard to exploit security problem that ignored initial reports, threatened public reporters, denied its existence, and dragged their heals when the public demanded they fix it.