EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) Enters Beta: What ISO 27001-certified firms and NIS2 “essential” & “important” entities should do now
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has quietly opened public access to its European Vulnerability Database (EUVD), a consolidated platform that fuses data from CVE, CISA’s Known-Exploited-Vulnerability (KEV) catalogue, national CSIRT advisories, vendor patches and the EU CSIRTs-network’s own coordinated disclosures.
Why it matters: From October 2024 every important or essential entity under NIS2 must have “appropriate and proportionate technical and organisational measures” for vulnerability handling and disclosure (Art. 21 (2)(d)). ISO / IEC 27001:2022-certified organisations already manage vulnerabilities under Annex A control A.8.8 – Management of Technical Vulnerabilities, but most still rely on multiple, disconnected feeds. EUVD unifies those feeds—adding EU-specific context and exploited-in-the-wild tags—so that risk teams can shorten detection-to-patch cycles.
What is the EUVD?
| EUVD in a nutshell | Details |
|---|---|
| Three live dashboards | 1. Critical CVEs 2. Exploited vulnerabilities 3. EU-Coordinated cases disclosed by the EU CSIRTs-network |
| Data sources | MITRE CVE, CISA KEV, vendor CSAF advisories, national CSIRT alerts, ENISA CNA assignments |
| Output | Machine-readable feeds (JSON/CSV), searchable web UI, links to patches & mitigations |
| Audience | Public, suppliers of network/information systems, regulators, researchers |
Important distinction — EUVD ≠ the forthcoming Cyber-Resilience-Act Single Reporting Platform (CRA-SRP). The SRP (due 2026) obliges manufacturers to report actively exploited product vulnerabilities, whereas EUVD helps operators consume vulnerability intelligence today.
Practical adoption guide
1. Map EUVD into your vulnerability lifecycle
| ISO 27001 : 2022 | CyFun Essential control | Practical step |
|---|---|---|
| A.8.8 – Technical Vulnerability Management | PR.IP-12 – “A vulnerability management plan is developed and implemented.” | • Subscribe to EUVD JSON/CSV feed. • Ingest into SIEM/Vulnerability Management Platform (Tenable, Qualys, etc.). • Auto-tag vulnerabilities flagged “Exploited” or “EU-Coordinated”. |
| A.8.15 – Monitoring & Logging | DE.CM-1/2/7/8 – Network, physical, asset & vuln monitoring | • Correlate EUVD “Exploited” CVEs with your IDS/EDR detections. • Generate priority alerts when an exploited CVE matches an un-patched asset. |
2. Update policies & procedures
ISO 27001 organisations
- Reference EUVD in your Vulnerability-Management SOP (“authoritative source for EU-specific CVE risk ratings”).
- Document EUVD feed checks as part of ISMS monitoring (Clause 9.1).
NIS2 essential/important entities
- Add EUVD to incident-handling runbooks: Art. 23 requires rapid notification when incidents exploit known vulnerabilities.
- Integrate EUVD IDs into supplier-risk questionnaires (Art. 21 (2)(j)).
3. Enhance threat-monitoring dashboards
- Merge EUVD’s Critical and Exploited lists into SOC dashboards alongside MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
- Use colour-coded widgets to show patch status per EUVD entry across customer environments (ideal for MSPs).
4. Embed into Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD)
- If you already operate a CVD programme, reference EUVD as the repository for final CVE publication.
- For ISO 27001 Clause 6.1.3 risk treatment tracking, link each vulnerability ticket to the corresponding EUVD record.
5. Test & exercise
- Include at least one EUVD-listed CVE in your next red-team or tabletop exercise to validate detection and response playbooks (ISO control A.5.27 – Learning from Incidents).
Looking ahead
ENISA plans further EUVD enhancements throughout 2025, including richer CSAF ingestion and direct SRP interoperability once the Cyber Resilience Act platform goes live. Organisations that integrate EUVD now will:
- Reduce mean-time-to-remediate (MTTR) by using a single, EU-curated vulnerability feed.
- Prove NIS2 readiness through documented, EU-specific threat-intelligence consumption.
- Strengthen ISO 27001 certification evidence for Annex A controls on vulnerability and monitoring management.
Bottom line: Treat EUVD as the missing EU-centric layer in your vulnerability-management stack—aligning ISO 27001 discipline with NIS2 regulatory urgency. Early adoption will pay dividends when auditors (and regulators) ask how you prioritise and patch what really matters in Europe.
