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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEV Additions (June 8–18, 2026) | 11 vulnerabilities | CISA KEV JSON | Establishes the initial pace of additions (1.1/day) for the window. |
| Ransomware Flags in Window | 2 (18.2%) | CISA KEV JSON | Provides the baseline percentage of KEV items linked to ransomware. |
| Total KEV Entries (June 18, 2026) | 1,623 | CISA KEV Catalog | Shows the overall scale of the catalog being managed. |
| 2025 Total KEV Additions | 245 | Black Kite/CISA | Provides the long-term historical base rate (0.67/day). |
| Total Global CVEs (2025) | 48,000 | Black Kite / Hiveforce | Highlights the massive volume of vulnerabilities causing NIST backlogs. |
| CISA Staffing Reduction | >33% | Wikipedia / DHS | Indicates potential for administrative delays in catalog updates. |
Historically, the CISA KEV catalog has grown at a relatively steady pace since its inception in November 2021, with 245 vulnerabilities added in 2025. Ransomware associations typically account for a stable minority of these entries, often focusing on high-impact edge devices like VPNs and firewalls. For example, in June 2026, the Qilin ransomware group was confirmed to be exploiting CVE-2026-50751 in Check Point VPNs, reflecting a recurring pattern of ransomware actors favoring authentication bypass flaws. NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) historically maintained a median publication lag of 7 days, but by 2026, operational challenges and a massive influx of CVEs (48,000 in 2025 alone) forced a transition to a prioritized model. This model officially focuses on KEV vulnerabilities but remains vulnerable to the administrative delays seen in early 2026.
My analysis of the forecast relies on three primary variables: the rate of additions to the CISA KEV catalog, the frequency of ransomware flags within those additions, and the speed at which NIST NVD publishes CVSS v3.1 scores.
First, I examined the addition rate to the KEV catalog. In the first ten days of the specified window (June 8 to June 18, 2026), 11 vulnerabilities were added. This pace of 1.1 per day is higher than the 2025 base rate of approximately 0.67 per day (245 total for the year). If the current pace is maintained over the 58-day window ending August 5, we would expect roughly 64 total additions. However, vulnerability discovery is often “bursty,” typically clustering around major security conferences or vendor patch cycles. Blending the high early-June rate with historical averages leads to a projected total of 45–55 KEV additions for the period.
Second, I evaluated the ransomware association rate. Of the 11 early-window additions, two (CVE-2026-50751 and CVE-2026-35273) were flagged for known ransomware association, which is approximately 18%. Historically, ransomware-associated vulnerabilities are a minority of the KEV catalog, as the catalog also covers nation-state espionage and general criminal activity. Applying an 18% rate to the projected 45–55 total additions suggests roughly 8 to 10 ransomware-flagged vulnerabilities will be added.
Third, the NVD scoring requirement acts as a significant filter. As of mid-June 2026, the two already-flagged vulnerabilities lacked an official NIST CVSS v3.1 score, labeled as “Awaiting Analysis.” While NIST has moved to a “prioritized enrichment” model that specifically targets KEV-listed items, historical and current data show a persistent backlog. Vulnerabilities added between June 8 and early July have a high probability (70–85%) of being scored by the August 7 deadline. However, vulnerabilities added in the final week of the window (late July to August 5) face a very tight turnaround.
By discounting the estimated 8 to 10 candidates by a scoring probability factor (reflecting NVD’s current backlog and the lag for late-window additions), I center the most likely outcome at 5.50. This represents a scenario where KEV flow remains steady, ransomware activity continues at current levels, and NIST successfully clears its prioritized backlog for most, but not all, relevant entries. Higher outcomes (10+) are possible if a major ransomware campaign targeting widely used edge devices occurs, while lower outcomes would likely result from a worsening of the NVD analysis backlog or a lull in ransomware-linked exploitations.
Question: how many CISA KEV CVEs added between June 9–August 5, 2026 will be marked Known for ransomware use and also have an NVD/NIST‑provided CVSS v3.1 score by 12:00 UTC August 7, 2026? As of the 2026-06-18 KEV snapshot there are 9 in-window additions and only one ransomware-flagged entry (CVE-2026-35273), but that entry currently lacks an NVD/NIST‑provided CVSS v3.1 so the observed qualifying count is 0. Forecasters agree historical same-window KEV windows typically yield ~3–5 ransomware-flagged entries, but applying the strict “NVD-provider” requirement (and accounting for NIST’s April 2026 policy of not routinely duplicating CNA scores) usually cuts those down to about 1–2 qualifying CVEs in analogous windows. Upside comes from retroactive CISA flips of Unknown→Known (historically common) and from older in-window CVEs that already have NVD-authored v3.1 scores, while downside is driven by many KEV entries showing only CNA or CISA‑ADP scores in NVD today. In short: most teams center around 1–2 qualifying CVEs, with substantial probability mass on 0 and a thin right tail; monitor CISA’s KEV JSON and NVD API metrics near August 7 because both flags and NVD enrichment can change retroactively.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
Key drivers for the Aug 7, 2026 query-time count:
How many KEV additions fall in the window (Jun 8–Aug 5). Analysts converge on roughly ~40–55 total KEV additions over ~8.5 weeks, consistent with recent-year addition rates.
Among those additions, how many have the KEV ransomware attribute set at resolution time. A major disagreement is whether to use the long-run catalog ransomware share (~20%) or the (apparently lower) share among newly added items (~10–15%). I treat the in-window ransomware-flagged additions as most likely in the mid-single-digits, but with meaningful uncertainty (bursty additions and possible retroactive flag flips before Aug 7).
The binding uncertainty: condition (3) requires a CVSS v3.1 Base Score under the NVD provider tag specifically (not just CNA or CISA-ADP). One analyst provided concrete examples suggesting that some recent KEV additions show “NVD assessment not yet provided” (i.e., missing NVD-provider CVSS), implying this filter could eliminate many otherwise-qualifying CVEs. Other analysts implicitly assumed high/near-total NVD-provider coverage for KEV items, which seems optimistic given known NVD workflow changes/backlog dynamics.
Synthesis: I weight the “NVD-provider CVSS may often be missing” risk heavily enough to put substantial probability on very low counts (including 0–2), while still expecting a nontrivial number of qualifying items because (a) some KEV additions are older CVEs that may already have NVD-provider CVSS v3.1, and (b) NVD may still publish provider scores for some high-priority KEV entries by Aug 7. This yields a median around 4–5 and a wide right tail to reflect the scenario where NVD-provider scoring is broadly present for in-window ransomware-tagged additions.
An amateur forecast would likely (i) multiply an expected KEV-addition count by the overall catalog ransomware fraction (~20%), and then (ii) assume most/all of those have usable CVSS in NVD—missing the resolution’s strict requirement that the score be under the NVD provider tag (excluding CNA-only and CISA-ADP-only scores). My forecast explicitly models that provider-tag constraint as the dominant uncertainty, which increases probability mass at 0–2 and widens upper tails to stay calibrated under policy/process volatility. Confidence in improvement: moderate (biggest residual uncertainty is how NVD-provider scoring behavior will look specifically in June–Aug 2026).
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — Across the forecasts, the reasoning is broadly consistent:
Primary driver 1: expected KEV volume in the window.
The models assume roughly 25–35 CISA KEV additions over the 59-day period, based on recent historical pacing.
Primary driver 2: ransomware-flag rate.
They apply a historical ransomware share of about 15% of KEV entries, with some variation upward or downward depending on how broadly “ransomware flag” is interpreted and whether late flagging is included.
Primary driver 3: whether NVD has published a CVSS v3.1 score by Aug. 7.
This is treated as a meaningful bottleneck. Even if a KEV entry is ransomware-related, some will not yet have an NVD score because of backlog, timing lag, or late additions in the window. Estimated in-time scoring rates range from about 50% to 75%.
Combining those factors, the forecasts cluster around a low single-digit outcome, with a central estimate of roughly 3–4 vulnerabilities meeting all criteria.
Overall, the forecasts converge on a modest expected count, around 3 or 4, driven by historical KEV addition rates, ransomware prevalence, and the limiting effect of NVD publication lag.
— Iteration 2 — The overall forecast points to a low single-digit count, with most probability mass around 1–4 vulnerabilities.
The shared reasoning suggests that 0 is plausible, but the most likely outcome is a small count in the low single digits, with only a limited chance of a larger spike if a notable ransomware event generates multiple fast-tracked KEV entries.
— Iteration 3 — Overall, the forecasts converge on a low single-digit to high single-digit expectation, with a central estimate around 5 qualifying vulnerabilities.
The estimates are built in two stages:
Estimate how many KEV entries will be added in the 59-day window
Apply two filters
Central estimate
Upper tail
The shared view is that the count should be driven by moderate KEV inflow × moderate ransomware-flag prevalence × high-but-imperfect NVD score coverage, producing a median near 5 and a distribution that is right-skewed but concentrated in the single digits.
The rationales broadly agree that the forecasted outcome depends on a vulnerability simultaneously clearing three highly restrictive administrative and operational bottlenecks:
knownRansomwareCampaignUse flag. Rationales heavily emphasize that this flag acts as a lagging indicator. Because CISA requires rigorous evidentiary corroboration, most vulnerabilities are initially added with an “Unknown” status and are only retroactively updated weeks or months later. Given the narrow timeframe between the end of the observation window and the resolution deadline, very few recent additions are expected to receive this flag in time, with the exception of highly publicized zero-days.Pathways to Fulfillment Given these compounding filters, the rationales note only a few narrow pathways for vulnerabilities to qualify:
Question: How many vulnerabilities added to the CISA KEV catalog between June 8 and August 5, 2026, will carry a ransomware flag and have a CVSS v3.1 Base Score published in the NIST NVD by August 7, 2026? Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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Forecaster 1: Probability distribution:
Forecaster 2: Probability distribution:
The research frames the question as forecasting how many vulnerabilities added to the CISA KEV catalog between June 8 and August 5, 2026 will both carry a ransomware flag by August 7, 2026 and have a CVSS v3.1 Base Score published in the NIST NVD by that date. It compiles confirmed KEV additions in early June 2026 (including vendor- and news-reported CVEs such as Oracle WebLogic, Mirasvit, Check Point VPN, LiteLLM, Chrome V8, Cisco SD‑WAN, Arista, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Splunk) and uses recent KEV addition rates (245 added in 2025 → ~20.4/month) to estimate ~35–45 vulnerabilities over the 58-day window. The research distinguishes two ransomware-flag metrics: a cumulative KEV catalog rate (~20%) and the more relevant recent-new-additions rate (~9.8% in 2025, with an April 2026 sample showing ~18.9%), and highlights the “silent flip” phenomenon where vulnerabilities’ ransomware status can be changed after initial KEV publication.
The analysis also incorporates a key NIST/NVD operational change (April 15, 2026) prioritizing KEV CVEs for rapid enrichment (one business day) while de-emphasizing routine NIST-calculated CVSS if a CNA-provided score exists, and estimates a 90–95% completion rate for CVSS scores in NVD for KEV items by August 7. Combining expected KEV counts, ransomware-flag rates (accounting for immediate flags plus likely silent flips), and expected CVSS publishing rates, the research presents scenario outcomes: a Base Case of ~4–6 vulnerabilities, a Moderate Scenario of ~6–9, and a High Activity Scenario of ~8–12, and recommends a forecast range of 5–9 with a central estimate around 6–7. Key uncertainties noted include timing of ransomware-flag assignments, seasonal/clustered exploit activity, NIST resource constraints, and whether CNA-provided scores in NVD count as “published” scores.
Sources/websites used (as referenced in the research):
Additional sources referenced in the research include vendor advisories and news reports on specific CVEs and exploit activity (Oracle, Check Point, Google/Chrome, Cisco, Arista, Splunk), ransomware reporting and trend analyses (reports noting Qilin, Akira, and broader ransomware statistics), and aggregated KEV/NVD statistics and prior-year KEV tallies (2022–2025).
You’re forecasting how many vulnerabilities added to the CISA KEV catalog between June 8 and August 5, 2026 (58 days), will simultaneously:
Based on news from the current period, CISA KEV additions are actively occurring:
Confirmed KEV Additions (June 2026):
At least 9 KEV additions in the first 20 days of June, suggesting an active period.
Annual Statistics:
Monthly Average (2025): 245 ÷ 12 = ~20.4 vulnerabilities/month
Expected for 58-day period (June 8 - August 5):
Critical Finding - Two Different Metrics:
A. Overall KEV Catalog (Cumulative):
B. New Additions (More Relevant):
Important Caveat - “Silent Flips”:
Major Policy Shift (April 15, 2026): NIST announced fundamental changes to NVD operations due to 263% increase in CVE submissions from 2020-2025 [30][31][32]:
Key Changes:
Impact on Your Question:
No cybersecurity-specific prediction markets found. Search results show Polymarket activity focused on political/military events [26][29], with no evidence of vulnerability or cybersecurity forecasting markets on Polymarket, Manifold, Kalshi, or similar platforms. This appears to be a novel forecasting domain without established prediction market liquidity.
Ransomware Flag Assignment Timing: The “silent flip” phenomenon means vulnerabilities could gain ransomware flags days or weeks after KEV addition but before resolution date [20]
Seasonal Variation: June-August could see different activity than annual averages due to summer security conferences, vacation schedules, or exploitation campaigns
Zero-Day Clusters: Multiple documents note clustering of exploits around major vulnerabilities [8][19], which could create outlier periods
NIST Resource Constraints: Despite prioritization promises, NIST may struggle with 1-day enrichment if KEV additions surge [30][31]
Definition Ambiguity: Whether CNA-provided CVSS scores “published in NIST NVD” count versus NIST-calculated scores could significantly affect outcomes
Ransomware Landscape (2025-2026):
Exploitation Speed:
Recent Trends:
Based on historical base rates, current activity levels, and the NIST scoring prioritization change, a reasonable forecast range is 5-9 vulnerabilities, with a central estimate around 6-7 vulnerabilities.
This accounts for approximately 40-45 KEV additions over the 58-day period, with 12-18% receiving ransomware flags (mixture of immediate and delayed assignments), and 90-95% receiving CVSS scores by the August 7 deadline.
I condition this forecast on the question not resolving N/A because of source unavailability, and I continue to interpret the date window as June 9–August 5, 2026 inclusive: the wording is messy, but the stated “58 days” strongly points to excluding June 8.
I accept the critic’s main upward correction: the strict NIST/NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 filter is not fatal. NIST is still adding v3.1 scores in some KEV cases, especially where the CNA supplied only CVSS v4.0 or where the CVE is older / less comprehensively scored. Recent examples like Nx Console and Joomla JCE demonstrate that a KEV can get a qualifying NIST: NVD v3.1 score even after the April 2026 policy shift. (nvd.nist.gov)
But I do not fully buy the critic’s 45–60% pass-through as the center. On checking more examples, some cases cited as upside actually support the stricter view: WebPros/cPanel has CNA/VulnCheck CVSS v3.1 but not a NIST/NVD v3.1 score, and TanStack likewise has GitHub/CNA v3.1 while NIST/NVD remains N/A. (nvd.nist.gov) This matters because ransomware-linked KEVs are often major-vendor, enterprise, appliance, VPN, or hosting-control-panel CVEs—the exact category where CNAs often already provide v3.1, and NIST’s new policy says it will no longer routinely duplicate severity scores. (nist.gov)
The live early-window evidence remains mildly downward: the CISA feed snapshot through June 18 shows 9 strict-window additions after June 8, with only Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 marked ransomware “Known”; it currently fails because NVD displays Oracle/CNA v3.1 but no NIST/NVD v3.x score. (raw.githubusercontent.com) The excluded June 8 Check Point CVE is ransomware “Known,” but it also currently lacks a NIST/NVD v3.1 score, so the date ambiguity is only a small upward tail rather than a big central adjustment. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
My updated generative model:
So I am nudging upward from my previous forecast, but less than the critic/contrarian assistant. The most important new insight is that the sample cuts both ways: Nx/Joomla/SimpleHelp support a higher pass-through than my pessimistic pass, while Oracle/Check Point/TanStack/cPanel show the strict score filter remains very real.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 0.01
Percentile 1: 0.05
Percentile 5: 0.25
Percentile 10: 0.48
Percentile 20: 0.85
Percentile 30: 1.45
Percentile 40: 2.05
Percentile 50: 2.45
Percentile 60: 3.10
Percentile 70: 3.85
Percentile 80: 4.95
Percentile 90: 6.80
Percentile 95: 9.00
Percentile 99: 14.20
Percentile 99.9: 22.50
(a) Time left: About 46 days until the scheduled resolution query at 12:00 UTC on August 7, 2026. My forecast is conditional on the question not resolving N/A due to source unavailability.
(b) Outside view: A good base class is “new CISA KEV entries over a ~2-month window, multiplied by the share flagged for ransomware, multiplied by the share with an NVD-authored CVSS v3.1 score.” In 2025, CISA added 245 KEV entries, of which 24 were flagged as used in ransomware campaigns, or about 9.8%; that implies roughly 39 KEV additions and about 4 ransomware-flagged additions over a 58–59 day window before considering NVD-score filtering. (securityweek.com)
(c) Inside view: Current 2026 activity is higher than the 2025 daily base rate: CISA’s official GitHub mirror says the KEV catalog is synchronized shortly after the canonical CISA source, and the current feed version shown is 2026.06.18 with 1,623 entries. Within the target window so far, I count 11 entries from June 8–18, with two carrying knownRansomwareCampaignUse: "Known": Check Point CVE-2026-50751 and Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273. However, both currently fail the NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 condition: Check Point has NIST:NVD Base Score N/A for CVSS 3.x and only a CISA-ADP v3.1 score; Oracle shows only a CNA Oracle v3.1 score, not an NVD v3.1 score. (github.com)
(d) Outcome if nothing changed: 0 vulnerabilities. As of now, the in-window ransomware-known entries do not have an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 base score.
(e) Outcome if the current trend continued: Roughly 2–4 vulnerabilities. Current addition volume points above the 2025 baseline, but the NVD-provider score filter is severe after NIST’s April 2026 operational change: NIST says it prioritizes KEV enrichment within one business day, but also says it will no longer routinely provide a separate severity score when the CNA has already provided one. Some KEV CVEs still get NVD v3.1 scores when only CVSS v4 or insufficient CNA scoring exists, as with LiteLLM and Joomla Content Editor, but many major-vendor KEVs do not. (nist.gov)
(f) Experts and markets: I found no liquid prediction market for this exact question. The main “expert” signal is operational: NIST’s stated policy makes “CNA-score-in-NVD” much less relevant than “NVD-authored v3.1,” which pushes the forecast down from the research assistant’s 5–9 range.
(g) Low-outcome scenario: CISA keeps adding KEVs, but ransomware flags remain concentrated on major-vendor CVEs that already have CNA or CISA-ADP scores; NIST does not add separate v3.1 scores; and no currently NVD-scored “Unknown” entries flip to ransomware “Known.” This yields 0–1.
(h) High-outcome scenario: A clustered ransomware campaign hits open-source or supply-chain packages whose CVE records lack CNA v3.1 scores, causing CISA to flag several entries as ransomware-known and NIST to assign its own v3.1 scores; alternatively, NIST begins adding requested NVD scores for high-profile ransomware KEVs. This could yield 7+.
Rationale:
Anchoring on the outside view, 245 KEV additions/year implies about 39 additions over this window, and a 9.8% new-addition ransomware rate implies about 4 ransomware-flagged entries. Current 2026 pace and the 11 entries already in the window push total expected KEV additions up, maybe toward 45–50, and ransomware-flagged entries toward 5–8. But the key correction is the NVD-provider requirement: current in-window ransomware-known entries score 0-for-2 on NVD-authored CVSS v3.1, and NIST’s new policy explains why. I therefore forecast that only a minority of ransomware-flagged KEVs will also have an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 score by August 7. My median is 2 vulnerabilities, with a right tail for clustered supply-chain ransomware activity or NIST adding separate scores on request.
Percentile 0.1: 0.01
Percentile 1: 0.06
Percentile 5: 0.24
Percentile 10: 0.45
Percentile 20: 0.70
Percentile 30: 1.05
Percentile 40: 1.40
Percentile 50: 1.75
Percentile 60: 2.30
Percentile 70: 2.75
Percentile 80: 3.35
Percentile 90: 4.35
Percentile 95: 6.35
Percentile 99: 10.35
Percentile 99.9: 20.35
Modal: 0-6 (58.9%) • frontier aggregate • 5m52s
Edge cases:
frontier_1 - Modal: 6-11 (55.0%)
frontier_2 - Modal: 0-6 (66.0%)
frontier_3 - Modal: 0-6 (80.0%)
knownRansomwareCampaignUse set to “Known”); and (3) possessing an official CVSS v3.1 Base Score in…frontier_4 - Modal: 0-6 (78.0%)
Status
Guidance
Revision
| Bin | Probability |
|---|---|
| 0-6 | 58.9% |
| 6-11 | 29.2% |
| 11-17 | 8.5% |
| 17-23 | 2.3% |
| 23-28 | 0.6% |
| 28-34 | 0.2% |
| 34-39 | 0.1% |
| 39-45 | 0.1% |
| Above 45 | 0.1% |
wooley_rhino • run e42df6fa • $3.04 • 5m52s
Forecast: median = 0.6255
This resolves from two official sources at a fixed time: CISA’s KEV feed for dateAdded and ransomware association, and the NVD API for whether an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 base score is published. NVD’s API documentation confirms KEV-date filtering and explains that NVD analysis is what adds CVSS/CWE/reference enrichment; it also notes that most CVEs published before 2016 do not include CVSS v3.x metrics. The NVD FAQ further says changes from the CVE List appear on the website and API within 24 hours. (nvd.nist.gov)
The closest seasonal analog I could reconstruct from accessible official CISA advisories is June 8-August 5, 2025. In that window, CISA added 2 KEVs on June 10, 2 on June 16, 3 on June 25, 1 on July 20, and 3 on July 28, for 11 total additions before August 6. (content.govdelivery.com)
2026’s pace looks higher than that 2025 analog. Accessible official CISA bulletins show 4 additions on February 3, 6 on February 10, 2 on March 3, and 7 on May 20, for 19 additions across just those four observed updates. The May 20 batch is especially relevant because it included several very old CVEs from 2008-2010, which matters for this question’s extra NVD-v3.1 filter. (content.govdelivery.com)
The ransomware field is selective rather than default. Accessible official KEV catalog snippets show both Known and Unknown values: examples shown as Known include CVE-2022-40684, CVE-2018-8453, and CVE-2023-36884, while examples shown as Unknown include CVE-2019-16920 and CVE-2024-38080. That pushes me away from using raw KEV additions as the forecast and toward a materially smaller qualifying subset. (cisa.gov)
My practical model is a three-scenario Poisson-thinning setup. First I forecast total KEV additions in the June 8-August 5, 2026 window; then I thin them by a ransomware-flag probability and by the probability that an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 base score is present by August 7. I use scenarios of roughly 10, 14, and 18 total additions, with matching probabilities that imply means of about 0.90, 1.86, and 3.31 qualifying CVEs, weighted 25%, 50%, and 25%, respectively. This centers the distribution at an expected value of about 1.98 and reflects both the higher 2026 KEV tempo and the suppressing effect of the ransomware and v3.1 requirements.
Because only 14 of the 59 days in the scoring window had elapsed as of Monday, June 22, 2026, and because flag status is assessed at resolution time rather than at addition time, I do not lock in any minimum above 0. My highest-probability outcomes are 1, 2, and 3, with 0 still materially possible if the window is dominated by non-ransomware or legacy CVEs that never receive NVD v3.1 scoring in time. A burst of campaign-linked edge-device or Microsoft-style foothold KEVs could push the result into the 4-6 range, but I think the right tail beyond that is small.
As of June 22, 2026, the current CISA KEV mirror says it is sourced from the canonical CISA KEV catalog and synchronized within minutes, and the current snapshot is catalogVersion 2026.06.18 with 1,623 total entries; the repo README also says updates typically happen on weekdays during normal U.S. Eastern business hours when there are new or updated KEV entries. (github.com)
For total KEV flow, the useful recent base rate is the count growth in the mirror. Commit diffs show the KEV count at 1,579 on April 23, 1,607 on May 29, 1,614 on June 8, 1,617 on June 9, and 1,623 on June 18. That is +44 entries from April 23 to June 18, about 0.79 additions per day. Projected mechanically over a June 8 to August 5 window, that points to a total-additions baseline in the mid-40s. (github.com)
The ransomware filter is much tighter than the total-additions count. In the current feed, among the 11 entries dated June 8 through June 18, only CVE-2026-50751 and CVE-2026-35273 are currently marked with knownRansomwareCampaignUse = Known; late May also contains two May 27 additions, CVE-2026-48027 and CVE-2026-45321, that are currently marked Known. That suggests a recent ransomware-flag share in roughly the low-teens, with obvious noise. Just as importantly, the flag can change after initial addition: the June 8 commit showed CVE-2026-50751 as Unknown, while the June 18/current feed shows it as Known. (github.com)
The NVD requirement is the second major bottleneck. NVD’s API documentation says the metrics object includes both the score source and whether it is Primary or Secondary, and that Primary scores can come from either NVD or a provider-level CNA. The same docs also say NVD’s Initial Analysis is the stage where NIST enriches a CVE with CVSS base metrics. So this question is materially stricter than “does the CVE page show some CVSS 3.1 score somewhere”; it specifically wants an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 score. (nvd.nist.gov)
Recent examples show that this NVD-provider condition is a real constraint. CVE-2026-50751 and CVE-2026-35273 are both KEV-listed and ransomware-flagged, but their NVD pages still showed “NVD assessment not yet provided” in recent crawls. By contrast, CVE-2026-48027 shows Initial Analysis by NIST adding CVSS v3.1, and CVE-2026-48907 shows an NVD Base Score of 9.8 after Initial Analysis by NIST. In other words, some KEV entries clear the NVD hurdle quickly or before KEV addition, while others remain unscored by NVD for more than a week after publication and KEV inclusion. (nvd.nist.gov)
My forecast therefore decomposes the final count into three moving parts: total additions in the window, the share that are ransomware-flagged by August 7, and the share of those that have an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 by the resolution time. I center total additions around 44-47. I center the eventual ransomware-flag share around 12-15%, based on the current late-May and June mix. I then discount that by an NVD-timeliness factor around one-half, because some qualifying entries will already be NVD-analyzed before KEV addition, but fresh late-window additions—especially those added on August 4-5—will have very little time to receive NVD enrichment before the August 7 check. That produces a central expectation a little above 3 and makes 2-5 the densest range. This last step is an inference from the observed KEV cadence and the recent NVD examples, not a directly published CISA/NVD statistic. (github.com)
I interpret the date window as June 8, 2026 through August 5, 2026 inclusive because the prompt explicitly says “inclusive,” despite the stray word “strictly.” Under that interpretation, my median forecast is 3 and my mean forecast is 3.33.
I decomposed the question into three pieces: (1) how many KEV additions land in the June 8, 2026 to August 5, 2026 window, (2) what fraction of those receive CISA’s ransomware association flag, and (3) what fraction also have a CVSS v3.1 base score published by NVD under the NVD provider by August 7, 2026. NVD officially supports CVSS v3.1, and its vulnerability API/documentation says CVSS information is present when a CVE has been analyzed, with
sourceandtypeindicating who supplied the metrics and whether they are primary or secondary. (nvd.nist.gov)For the current state as of June 22, 2026, indexed official NVD detail pages already show four in-window June additions that matter for this forecast: CVE-2026-42271 was added to KEV on June 8, 2026; CVE-2026-7473 on June 9, 2026; CVE-2026-10520 on June 11, 2026; and CVE-2026-48907 on June 16, 2026. Among these, CVE-2026-42271 already shows an NVD/NIST CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8, and CVE-2026-48907 already shows an NVD/NIST CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8. By contrast, the retrieved NVD page for CVE-2026-10520 still showed NIST “N/A” for CVSS 3.x. (nvd.nist.gov)
That scoring lag matters. A nearby outside-window example, CVE-2025-48595, was already in KEV on June 2, 2026 but the retrieved NVD page still showed NIST “N/A” while only CISA-ADP had a CVSS v3.1 score. On the other hand, CVE-2026-0257, added to KEV on May 29, 2026, already showed an NVD/NIST CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 by last week. So the NVD-score condition is not automatic for fresh additions, but several weeks of lead time usually helps. (nvd.nist.gov)
For the base rate of total KEV additions in the target window, the closest recent analogues look modest rather than huge. In the comparable 2024 period there were at least five visible additions: one on June 13, 2024, a batch of three on July 9, 2024, and one on August 5, 2024. In the comparable 2025 period there were at least seven visible additions: two on June 16, 2025, one on July 2, 2025, one on July 22, 2025, and a batch of three on July 28, 2025. Given those analogues, plus the four June 2026 additions already visible, I think a final 2026 total in roughly the 6-8 range is the right center of gravity. (cisa.gov)
The tighter bottleneck is the ransomware flag. In the analogous-window examples I could verify from CISA page snippets, entries such as CVE-2024-23692, CVE-2024-32896, CVE-2025-43200, CVE-2025-6554, and CVE-2025-6558 were marked “Unknown” rather than “Known” for ransomware use. Nearby counterexamples do exist — for example CVE-2025-31324 and CVE-2024-23897 were marked “Known” — but those look selective rather than common. That pushes me toward a low base probability that any given summer-window KEV addition ends up carrying the ransomware flag, with somewhat higher odds for enterprise-management/server bugs like Ivanti or JCE and much lower odds for cases like Arista EOS. (cisa.gov)
My synthesis is therefore: expected total qualifying count is a little above one-half, 0 is the modal outcome, 1 is the next most likely, and 2 is plausible but clearly less likely. I explicitly gave some probability mass to the already-visible June entries, especially the Ivanti and JCE cases, and then added a smaller stochastic allowance for future June 23 to August 5 additions. I also slightly discounted the June 8, 2026 LiteLLM item because the resolution wording is internally inconsistent (“strictly between” versus “inclusive”), although that ambiguity is not very load-bearing because that specific CVE still looks much more likely to remain non-ransomware-flagged than to qualify.
I treated the
cisagov/kev-dataGitHub repository as the best observable proxy for the official CISA KEV JSON because CISA says the repo is a mirror of the canonical cisa.gov KEV data, is updated whenever KEV changes, and is usually synchronized within minutes. The current raw file showscatalogVersion2026.06.18,dateReleased2026-06-18T16:00:20.1905Z, andcount1623. (github.com)In that June 18, 2026 snapshot, the forecast window has 11 KEV additions so far (June 8 through June 18, 2026). Only two already carry
knownRansomwareCampaignUse: Known: CVE-2026-35273 (Oracle PeopleSoft, added June 12, 2026) and CVE-2026-50751 (Check Point Security Gateway, added June 8, 2026). The other current-window additions shown in the feed are still markedUnknown. (github.com)Crucially, neither of those two current ransomware-flagged entries satisfies the NVD part of the resolution rule yet. The NVD detail page for CVE-2026-35273 shows the NVD CVSS 3.x score as
N/Awith “NVD assessment not yet provided,” while the Check Point page for CVE-2026-50751 also showsN/Afor the NVD CVSS 3.x score and explicitly says the record is still “Awaiting Enrichment.” By contrast, recent KEV entries such as CVE-2026-0257, CVE-2026-48027, and CVE-2026-23760 received NVD Initial Analysis with CVSS v3.1 on or essentially the same day as publication/KEV inclusion, so KEV items are often enriched quickly even though it is not automatic. (nvd.nist.gov)That mixed picture is consistent with NVD’s published process. NVD says CVEs appearing in CISA’s KEV catalog are in NVD’s “Scope of Coverage” within one business day of addition to KEV, and NIST’s 2026 backlog update says the broader backlog does not include KEV items because KEV CVEs are prioritized. At the same time, NIST also acknowledged a significant enrichment backlog and a new risk-based operating model in 2026, which argues for using a less-than-certain NVD-publication probability rather than assuming every ransomware-flagged KEV will have an NVD-provider v3.1 score by August 7. (nvd.nist.gov)
For base rates, SecurityWeek reported that CISA added 245 KEV entries in calendar year 2025, including 24 bugs that had been exploited in ransomware attacks. The same mid-summer seasonal window in the current KEV file also contains at least four entries now marked
Knownfor ransomware use—Citrix CVE-2025-5777 and the three SharePoint CVEs added on July 20-22, 2025—which suggests that a low-to-mid single-digit outcome is entirely plausible for a June 8 to August 5 window. (securityweek.com)My forecast is therefore: start with the 2 already observed ransomware-flagged entries; assume roughly 3.6 more ransomware-flagged KEV additions from June 19 through August 5, 2026 (this blends the 2025 annual ransomware-addition rate, the elevated 2026 KEV pace visible in the current catalog, and the fact that 2 such entries already appeared in the first 11 days of the window); then apply the NVD filter. I assign each of the two current flagged CVEs a 0.72 chance of obtaining an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 by August 7, 2026, because they are prioritized KEV items but already unusually delayed. I assign future flagged additions an average 0.78 chance of satisfying the NVD condition by resolution: high because KEV CVEs are prioritized, but not near 1 because some entries remain unscored for days or weeks and late-July / August 5 additions have less time to clear the NVD filter. I encode the remaining uncertainty with an overdispersed negative-binomial model for future qualifying additions. That yields a mean around 4.25 qualifying CVEs, with the distribution centered on 4 and most of the mass in the 2-7 range. This is an inference from the cited current-state evidence and recent historical base rates, not a directly reported number. (github.com)
I treated this as a three-stage forecast: (1) how many KEV additions land in the June 8 to August 5 window, (2) what share of those get the ransomware flag, and (3) what share of the ransomware-flagged entries have an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 score by the August 7 observation time. The official resolution sources are the CISA KEV feed and the NVD CVE API; NVD’s developer docs confirm the KEV-date filtering capability and CVSS v3.x exposure in the API, while CISA’s official mirror repo says its files are synchronized with cisa.gov within minutes. (nvd.nist.gov)
The latest visible KEV mirror snapshot I found is catalogVersion 2026.06.18 with count 1,623. In that snapshot, the question window had already produced at least 11 additions from June 8 through June 18 inclusive, and 2 of those 11 were ransomware-flagged: CVE-2026-50751 (Check Point) and CVE-2026-35273 (Oracle PeopleSoft). Looking a bit wider, I count 24 KEV additions from May 21 through June 18, of which 4 were ransomware-flagged (the two above plus CVE-2026-48027 and CVE-2026-45321 on May 27). That is a recent ransomware-share of about 16.7%; I rounded slightly downward to a 15% central estimate for forecasting because ransomware labeling is sparse and noisy. (github.com)
For the NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 condition, the key evidence is mixed rather than uniformly fast. NIST announced on April 15, 2026 that KEV CVEs would be prioritized for enrichment, with a goal of enriching them within one business day, but the same announcement also described a continuing backlog and a risk-based triage model. In practice, recent ransomware-flagged KEVs show both successes and misses: CVE-2026-48027 has an NVD CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 added in NIST’s initial analysis on May 27, but CVE-2026-45321 still shows NIST/NVD CVSS 3.x as N/A, CVE-2026-50751 still shows NIST/NVD Base Score N/A with only an ADP score, and CVE-2026-35273 still shows NIST/NVD N/A despite Oracle’s own 3.1 score appearing in the record. So among the four recent ransomware-flagged additions from May 27 to June 12, only one currently satisfies the strict NVD-provider-v3.1 test. (nist.gov)
My model therefore does not assume that every ransomware-flagged KEV quickly receives an NVD score. I split the problem into: (a) the two already-observed in-window ransomware-flagged CVEs, which I give roughly 60% and 50% chances respectively of having an NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 by August 7; and (b) future additions from June 19 through August 5. For future additions, I use a central KEV-addition pace of about 0.98/day over the remaining 48 days (about 47 additions), a 15% ransomware-flag share, and an average 40% chance that a future ransomware-flagged entry has NVD-provider CVSS v3.1 by August 7. That 40% is an inference from the mixed recent cohort above plus the simple timing constraint that late-July and August 5 additions have very little time to clear NVD enrichment before the August 7 resolution check. Under the central case that gives about 2.8 future qualifying CVEs, plus about 1.1 expected from the two already-observed ransomware-flagged June entries, for a mean near 4.0. (github.com)
I then widened the distribution by mixing low, middle, and high scenarios in the code rather than using a single Poisson mean. My bottom line is a distribution centered on 4, with most probability mass on roughly 2–6 and smaller but still meaningful downside mass on 0–1 if ransomware-flagged additions slow or NVD scoring remains sticky.