Security scanners and related vendors such as GitHub, Snyk, Whitesource, and Anchore are exploding in popularity and instead of being focused on CVE IDs, they’re all creating their own identifiers because getting CVE IDs often isn’t worth the trouble. While the last few years are in what looks like minor decline, the reality is the world around CVE IDs is growing exponentially, so while CVE IDs are shrinking slowly on the graph, in the greater world of expanding cybersecurity, it’s shrinking very quickly. If CVE IDs were growing properly, we should be seeing more than 23,000 CVE IDs in 2021.