Australian cybersecurity company Vulnetix has been appointed Australia’s first Global CVE Numbering Authority (GCVE), strengthening its role in the global vulnerability ecosystem while advancing its push into AI-assisted software development.
Vulnetix is expanding its support for Claude Code, enabling developers and AI coding agents to access vulnerability intelligence at the point of component selection. When a developer is coding, Vulnetix surfaces the right context on each component as it is selected. The Vulnetix plugin also builds resilience into AI agent coding by checking every component against more than 160 vulnerability databases simultaneously – enriched with exploit data, malware signals, end-of-life status, upgrade risk and safer version recommendations.
This approach is designed to surface safer choices before code is committed, reducing the risk of vulnerable components entering software supply chains while minimising disruption to developer workflows.
Vulnetix has also announced that it is expanding its local developer community by opening free access to its vulnerability database, APIs, Claude Code plugin and CLI – giving every Australian developer the same depth of intelligence previously available only to large enterprise security teams.
“Australia needs a stronger local foundation for vulnerability intelligence, especially with new threats emerging, such as TeamPCP, that are directly targeting the tools developers use,” Vulnetix CEO and co-founder Sean Marshall said.
“At the same time, development is becoming more automated. With Claude Code support, Vulnetix is bringing vulnerability intelligence into the developer workflow so security context is available when decisions are being made, not after the fact.”
The Vulnetix platform is designed to reduce manual triage, improve governance and give security teams clearer visibility of risk across the development lifecycle – especially in highly regulated industries such as government and finance. In addition to Claude Code, it integrates with existing delivery environments including Azure DevOps, GitLab CI and Bitbucket as an extensible vulnerability intelligence layer for modern DevSecOps pipelines.
Marshall said the company’s broader mission was to make vulnerability management more practical for organisations that needed speed without sacrificing control.
“For 20 years, the security industry has been saying that security needs to be in the developer’s natural path. Now, AI coding agents are automatically making decisions about software supply chains thousands of times a day, with no idea about what they’re importing. That’s not a Claude problem. It’s a data problem. Vulnetix is solving the data problem,” Marshall said.
Vulnetix is one of 27 registered GCVE Numbering Authorities globally and the only one in Australia.
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