The SANS Handler’s Diary has made the useful observation and recommendation for improvement that the CME identifiers lack “additional incident response information”. While it is possible to read a participating AV developer’s description of a virus, and use the link to find the entry in the CME database, there are no links back. You cannot easily get from the CME entry to the descriptions on all the AV developer’s sites.
The reverse links would greatly improve the usefulness of the CME database.