WhiteSource Authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority USA - English Share this article TEL AVIV, Israel, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteSource, the leader in open source security and license compliance management, has been approved by the MITRE Corporation to identify and publicly disclose CVEs as a CVE Numbering Authority. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures glossary (CVE) is a security project focused on publicly released software, funded by the US Division of Homeland Security and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. The CVE glossary collects information about security vulnerabilities and exposures, cataloging them according to various identifiers and providing them with unique IDs for quick referencing.