Actually, no. You can sleep more easily tonight. Typically the CVE is assigned when the vulnerability is reported to the maintainer after it's initially disco

Actually, no. You can sleep more easily tonight. Typically the CVE is assigned when the vulnerability is reported to the maintainer after it's initially discovered, before it's been made public. So really the difference represents how many other vulnerabilities there's been between the first time this was discovered (which could be months, could be weeks, I didn't check) until now. Since 7169 was only discovered today, it immediately got assigned a new CVE while still public. Also, the last number in the ID represents the total number of vulnerabilities tracked by CVEs in the year mentioned in th middle. So, there have been 7169 vulnerabilites in all sorts of different software this year.