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CRA reporting clock

Work out your Cyber Resilience Act reporting deadlines and see exactly which fields ENISA's Single Reporting Platform asks for at each stage.

What are you reporting?

You are aware once a prompt initial assessment gives you a reasonable degree of certainty that exploitation is happening or a severe incident has occurred. Times are in your local time zone, and the platform records them in UTC.

What the form asks for

Required fields first. Carried-over fields are copied from the previous stage and can be updated. Field names are shown as they appear in the platform.

  • Indicates whether the notification concerns an actively exploited vulnerability (AEV) or a severe incident (SI) having an impact on the security of a product with digital elements.
  • Short human-readable name for the notification.
  • Concise overview of the facts, affected product, and issue being notified.
  • Name of the natural or legal person who develops or manufactures the product with digital elements or has the product with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets it under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge.
  • Member States in which territory the manufacturer is aware that the affected product has been made available; used to determine concerned CSIRTs.
  • Name that identifies the affected product with digital elements.
  • Version, release, build, model, or other revision information required to identify the affected product instance.
  • Date and time when the manufacturer or another relevant party first detected the vulnerability.
  • Regulatory category indicating whether the product is default, important, or critical under the CRA classification framework.
  • For an Important Product with Digital Elements, the applicable Class I or Class II category used for conformity-assessment treatment.
  • The applicable CRA product category, normally selected from the relevant category list, as mentioned in the CRA Annexes III or IV.
  • Indicates whether the product with digital elements has reached the end of the support period.
  • Name of the software or hardware component in which the vulnerability or incident is located or observed.
  • Indicates whether an effective risk-mitigation measure, such as a security update or user guidance, is expected to become available.
  • Action that product users can take to prevent, reduce, or contain the impact of the actively exploited vulnerability or severe incident.
  • Manufacturer's assessment of how sensitive the notified information is to inform secure handling and dissemination decisions.
  • Actions already implemented by the manufacturer or other responsible party to correct the issue or reduce its risk or impact.
  • Instructions or actions users can apply to reduce exposure or impact, including workarounds, configuration changes, patches, or isolation measures.
  • CVE Identifier (CVE ID) assigned to the publicly disclosed vulnerability under the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program.
  • Identifier of the vulnerability record in the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD).
  • High-level description of the vulnerability and, where known, how exploitation works, without requiring the full final technical analysis.
  • Date and time when the mitigating measure has been available.
  • Information on available corrective measures and security updates.
  • Complete description of the actively exploited vulnerability, including at least its severity.
  • Complete description of the actively exploited vulnerability, including at least its impact.
  • Known or estimated date and time when the actively exploited vulnerability occured.
  • Available information about the actor that exploited or is exploiting the vulnerability, without requiring attribution where information is unavailable.
  • Description of anything that should be helpful for CSIRT Designated as Coordinator (CDaC)taking their decision.

Fields from ENISA CRA SRP Glossary v1.3 (25 September 2026). Check the platform itself if anything looks different.

Do these before you need them

Register before you need it

Create a personal EU Login account with multi-factor authentication for whoever will submit reports, and register your company on the Single Reporting Platform. There is one primary representative and up to twenty secondary ones, and the association has to be verified before you can invite colleagues.

Name who makes the call

Decide who in the company makes the call that something is actively exploited, and who covers when that person is away. The 24-hour clock does not wait for the weekend.

Know where you sell

Keep a current list of the EU countries each product is sold in, because the early warning asks for it.

Small company relief

Micro and small enterprises cannot be fined for missing the 24-hour early warning deadline. The 72-hour and final deadlines still apply in full.

Engineering guidance, not legal advice. Deadlines follow Article 14 of the CRA as explained in the Commission guidance of July 2026 and ENISA documentation.