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NIST opens comment window on AI-era vulnerability database
US-FEDNOTABLEConsultationSecurity & incidentsStandards What changed
NIST is seeking stakeholder input on modernizing the National Vulnerability Database to address challenges from artificial intelligence and machine-consumable security data, with comments due by October 13, 2026.
Who this touches
Security teams, software vendors, and public bodies that rely on the NVD's standards-based vulnerability data.
Why it matters
The NVD underpins vulnerability management across government and industry; how NIST reshapes it for AI-driven data will affect how security teams consume and trust that feed going forward.
Suggested next step — and why
Organizations dependent on NVD data may want to weigh in before the window closes, since scalability and automation priorities set here will shape the tooling built on top of it.
The clock
Comments due October 13, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Eastern.
Primary source: Federal Register AI documents API — read in the original, not from coverage. Source ID: us-fedreg-ai
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