Is cve.org legit or a scam?
Official CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) database operated by MITRE Corporation and sponsored by U.S. DHS/CISA — a trusted cybersecurity reference standard.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Our antivirus network flagged zero threats across 92 engines, and the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports. The domain is registered to The MITRE Corporation, a non-profit operating the CVE Program since 1999 under explicit U.S. Department of Homeland Security sponsorship. Web research confirms cve.org as the authoritative source for vulnerability disclosure, referenced consistently by IBM, Red Hat, Wikipedia, NIST, and GitHub. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews exist for the site itself. The SSL certificate is valid and current. This is a foundational cybersecurity resource, not a commercial site, which explains the minimal contact information and sparse page text — the content is served dynamically or via linked systems.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cve.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- cve.org is the official website of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Program, providing the authoritative catalog of over 340,000 publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- The CVE Program is operated by The MITRE Corporation as part of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute FFRDC, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CISA.
- Legacy site was cve.mitre.org; cve.org is the current primary domain, with contact forms at cveform.mitre.org maintained by MITRE.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative reviews found for cve.org itself across web searches, Reddit, or security sites.
- Searches for "cve.org scam" or similar primarily return results about phishing campaigns that *abuse* CVE numbers/identifiers (e.g., fake CVE-2023-45124 WordPress malware emails), not the cve.org site.
- Widely referenced as the standard by IBM, Red Hat, Wikipedia, NIST NVD, CISA KEV catalog, and GitHub CVEProject.
- CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; the program has operated since 1999 with no indications of domain compromise or malicious activity.
- Wikipediaopen
"The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system... provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. The United States' Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute F"
- IBMopen
"CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is a publicly disclosed catalog of information security vulnerabilities maintained by the MITRE Corporation."
- Red Hatopen
"today the industry acknowledges CVE as the universal standard for security vulnerability reporting... use the Red Hat security repository as the authoritative source of truth, either directly or pull the Red Hat data from CVE.org which aggr"
Operated by The MITRE Corporation (non-profit) under sponsorship of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (CISA). CVE Program Secretariat at MITRE maintains cve.org.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for cve.org and found zero scam reports or complaints. Web research instead confirmed that cve.org is the official, authoritative catalog of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, operated by The MITRE Corporation as part of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CISA. The site is widely referenced as the industry standard by IBM, Red Hat, Wikipedia, NIST, GitHub, and other major security organizations. The CVE Program has operated continuously since 1999 with no history of compromise or malicious activity.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cve.org/
- 2301https://cve.org/
- 3200https://www.cve.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on cve.org and not a lookalike like c-ve.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on cve.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cve.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cve.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 146 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report cve.org as clean.
- No. cve.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cve.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. cve.org sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around cve.org have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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