CVE.org to handle em-dashes gracefully

[todb-cisa]

On CVE.org, it's quite normal to search for CVEs in the following format:

CVE-2024-27394

However, sometimes I end up copy-pasting a string like this from a blog post or other resource:

CVE-2024–27394

Note the second em-dash.

It would be nice if the search string was passed to the search function with a normalized dash character. There are many choices for dash.

Maybe a regex that just takes:

/^CVE.(\d{4}).(\d{4,10}).*$/

and turns it into

CVE-\1-\2

and goes with that.

That would save minutes a day, I'm sure. Maybe you're logging searches and can find out how often people put well-meaning garbage in this search field.

This was first opened at CVEProject/Ideas#28