--- title: CVE Half-Day Watcher Closes Vulnerability Disclosure Gap description: Security researchers have uncovered a critical gap in the public disclosure of vulnerabilities within open source projects. To address this issue, they... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cve-half-day-watcher-closes-vulnerability-disclosure-gap-acvzho9ln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CVE Half-Day Watcher Closes Vulnerability Disclosure Gap | daily.dev og:description: Security researchers have uncovered a critical gap in the public disclosure of vulnerabilities within open source projects. To address this issue, they... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cve-half-day-watcher-closes-vulnerability-disclosure-gap-acvzho9ln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aCVzhO9Ln.png og:image:alt: CVE Half-Day Watcher Closes Vulnerability Disclosure Gap og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CVE Half-Day Watcher Closes Vulnerability Disclosure Gap **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Security researchers have uncovered a critical gap in the public disclosure of vulnerabilities within open source projects. To address this issue, they developed the CVE Half-Day Watcher tool, which tracks instances of vulnerabilities and aims to minimize early exposure. The tool scans the National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD) and examines GitHub activities to identify and mitigate risks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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