Introducing the Known Exploited CVE Feed: Cyber Intelligence That Prioritizes What's Actually Being Attacked

There are over 200,000 CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database. Your team cannot patch all of them. The question that matters isn’t “what vulnerabilities exist” — it’s “which ones are being actively exploited against organizations like ours right now?”

That’s what the Known Exploited CVE Feed answers.

The Prioritization Problem

Vulnerability management teams drown in CVEs. Monthly disclosure volumes continue to grow. CVSS scores provide theoretical severity, but they don’t tell you whether a specific vulnerability is being actively weaponized. A CVE with a CVSS score of 7.5 that nobody is exploiting matters less, operationally, than a CVE with a 6.0 score that’s being used in active campaigns targeting your industry.

CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog is a step in the right direction — it identifies CVEs with confirmed exploitation. But KEV entries are often added after exploitation has been widespread for weeks. And KEV doesn’t provide the OSINT context around how, where, and by whom the exploitation is occurring.

What the CVE Feed Provides

DigitalStakeout’s Known Exploited CVE Feed monitors open sources — security researcher publications, dark web forums, exploit databases, social media discussions, and threat actor communications — for evidence that specific CVEs are being actively discussed, traded, or used in attacks.

Early Exploitation Signals

Before a CVE appears on CISA’s KEV list, there are often OSINT indicators of exploitation. Proof-of-concept code shared on GitHub. Exploit discussions in dark web forums. Threat actor communities discussing targeting specific software versions. Researcher disclosures on social media.

The CVE Feed surfaces these early signals, giving your vulnerability management team a head start on prioritizing patches for vulnerabilities that are moving from theoretical to operational.

Context Beyond the CVE Number

A CVE number tells you what’s vulnerable. The CVE Feed adds context about who’s exploiting it, what industries are being targeted, what exploit tools are available, and whether exploitation is increasing or decreasing. This context supports risk-informed patching decisions beyond what CVSS scores alone can provide.

How It Fits Into Vulnerability Management

The CVE Feed doesn’t replace your vulnerability scanner or patch management process. It adds an intelligence layer that helps you prioritize.

Your scanner identifies which CVEs are present in your environment. The CVE Feed identifies which of those CVEs are being actively exploited. The intersection — CVEs present in your environment AND confirmed actively exploited — is your highest-priority patch list.

This is a fundamentally different prioritization approach than ranking by CVSS score alone. It accounts for the real-world exploitation landscape, not just theoretical severity.

Integration

CVE Feed alerts deliver through the same workflow as all other DigitalStakeout intelligence — email notifications, dashboard alerts, and API integration with your existing security tools. Vulnerability management teams receive CVE intelligence alongside all other threat classifications, or can configure dedicated alerting for cyber risk indicators only.

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