diff --git a/support/scripts/pkg-stats b/support/scripts/pkg-stats
index e477828f7b..46c8a66155 100755
--- a/support/scripts/pkg-stats
+++ b/support/scripts/pkg-stats
@@ -26,10 +26,17 @@ import subprocess
 import requests  # URL checking
 import json
 import certifi
+import distutils.version
+import time
+import gzip
 from urllib3 import HTTPSConnectionPool
 from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError
 from multiprocessing import Pool
 
+NVD_START_YEAR = 2002
+NVD_JSON_VERSION = "1.0"
+NVD_BASE_URL = "https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/json/cve/" + NVD_JSON_VERSION
+
 INFRA_RE = re.compile(r"\$\(eval \$\(([a-z-]*)-package\)\)")
 URL_RE = re.compile(r"\s*https?://\S*\s*$")
 
@@ -47,6 +54,7 @@ class Package:
     all_licenses = list()
     all_license_files = list()
     all_versions = dict()
+    all_ignored_cves = dict()
 
     def __init__(self, name, path):
         self.name = name
@@ -61,6 +69,7 @@ class Package:
         self.url = None
         self.url_status = None
         self.url_worker = None
+        self.cves = list()
         self.latest_version = (RM_API_STATUS_ERROR, None, None)
 
     def pkgvar(self):
@@ -152,6 +161,12 @@ class Package:
                 self.warnings = int(m.group(1))
                 return
 
+    def is_cve_ignored(self, cve):
+        """
+        Tells if the CVE is ignored by the package
+        """
+        return cve in self.all_ignored_cves.get(self.pkgvar(), [])
+
     def __eq__(self, other):
         return self.path == other.path
 
@@ -163,6 +178,110 @@ class Package:
             (self.name, self.path, self.has_license, self.has_license_files, self.has_hash, self.patch_count)
 
 
+class CVE:
+    """An accessor class for CVE Items in NVD files"""
+    def __init__(self, nvd_cve):
+        """Initialize a CVE from its NVD JSON representation"""
+        self.nvd_cve = nvd_cve
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def download_nvd_year(nvd_path, year):
+        metaf = "nvdcve-%s-%s.meta" % (NVD_JSON_VERSION, year)
+        path_metaf = os.path.join(nvd_path, metaf)
+        jsonf_gz = "nvdcve-%s-%s.json.gz" % (NVD_JSON_VERSION, year)
+        path_jsonf_gz = os.path.join(nvd_path, jsonf_gz)
+
+        # If the database file is less than a day old, we assume the NVD data
+        # locally available is recent enough.
+        if os.path.exists(path_jsonf_gz) and os.stat(path_jsonf_gz).st_mtime >= time.time() - 86400:
+            return path_jsonf_gz
+
+        # If not, we download the meta file
+        url = "%s/%s" % (NVD_BASE_URL, metaf)
+        print("Getting %s" % url)
+        page_meta = requests.get(url)
+        page_meta.raise_for_status()
+
+        # If the meta file already existed, we compare the existing
+        # one with the data newly downloaded. If they are different,
+        # we need to re-download the database.
+        # If the database does not exist locally, we need to redownload it in
+        # any case.
+        if os.path.exists(path_metaf) and os.path.exists(path_jsonf_gz):
+            meta_known = open(path_metaf, "r").read()
+            if page_meta.text == meta_known:
+                return path_jsonf_gz
+
+        # Grab the compressed JSON NVD, and write files to disk
+        url = "%s/%s" % (NVD_BASE_URL, jsonf_gz)
+        print("Getting %s" % url)
+        page_data = requests.get(url)
+        page_data.raise_for_status()
+        open(path_jsonf_gz, "wb").write(page_data.content)
+        open(path_metaf, "w").write(page_meta.text)
+        return path_jsonf_gz
+
+    @classmethod
+    def read_nvd_dir(cls, nvd_dir):
+        """
+        Iterate over all the CVEs contained in NIST Vulnerability Database
+        feeds since NVD_START_YEAR. If the files are missing or outdated in
+        nvd_dir, a fresh copy will be downloaded, and kept in .json.gz
+        """
+        for year in range(NVD_START_YEAR, datetime.datetime.now().year + 1):
+            filename = CVE.download_nvd_year(nvd_dir, year)
+            try:
+                content = json.load(gzip.GzipFile(filename))
+            except:
+                print("ERROR: cannot read %s. Please remove the file then rerun this script" % filename)
+                raise
+            for cve in content["CVE_Items"]:
+                yield cls(cve['cve'])
+
+    def each_product(self):
+        """Iterate over each product section of this cve"""
+        for vendor in self.nvd_cve['affects']['vendor']['vendor_data']:
+            for product in vendor['product']['product_data']:
+                yield product
+
+    @property
+    def identifier(self):
+        """The CVE unique identifier"""
+        return self.nvd_cve['CVE_data_meta']['ID']
+
+    @property
+    def pkg_names(self):
+        """The set of package names referred by this CVE definition"""
+        return set(p['product_name'] for p in self.each_product())
+
+    def affects(self, br_pkg):
+        """
+        True if the Buildroot Package object passed as argument is affected
+        by this CVE.
+        """
+        for product in self.each_product():
+            if product['product_name'] != br_pkg.name:
+                continue
+
+            for v in product['version']['version_data']:
+                if v["version_affected"] == "=":
+                    if br_pkg.current_version == v["version_value"]:
+                        return True
+                elif v["version_affected"] == "<=":
+                    pkg_version = distutils.version.LooseVersion(br_pkg.current_version)
+                    if not hasattr(pkg_version, "version"):
+                        print("Cannot parse package '%s' version '%s'" % (br_pkg.name, br_pkg.current_version))
+                        continue
+                    cve_affected_version = distutils.version.LooseVersion(v["version_value"])
+                    if not hasattr(cve_affected_version, "version"):
+                        print("Cannot parse CVE affected version '%s'" % v["version_value"])
+                        continue
+                    return pkg_version <= cve_affected_version
+                else:
+                    print("version_affected: %s" % v['version_affected'])
+        return False
+
+
 def get_pkglist(npackages, package_list):
     """
     Builds the list of Buildroot packages, returning a list of Package
@@ -227,7 +346,7 @@ def get_pkglist(npackages, package_list):
 def package_init_make_info():
     # Fetch all variables at once
     variables = subprocess.check_output(["make", "BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y", "-s", "printvars",
-                                         "VARS=%_LICENSE %_LICENSE_FILES %_VERSION"])
+                                         "VARS=%_LICENSE %_LICENSE_FILES %_VERSION %_IGNORE_CVES"])
     variable_list = variables.splitlines()
 
     # We process first the host package VERSION, and then the target
@@ -261,6 +380,10 @@ def package_init_make_info():
             pkgvar = pkgvar[:-8]
             Package.all_versions[pkgvar] = value
 
+        elif pkgvar.endswith("_IGNORE_CVES"):
+            pkgvar = pkgvar[:-12]
+            Package.all_ignored_cves[pkgvar] = value.split(" ")
+
 
 def check_url_status_worker(url, url_status):
     if url_status != "Missing" and url_status != "No Config.in":
@@ -355,6 +478,16 @@ def check_package_latest_version(packages):
     del http_pool
 
 
+def check_package_cves(nvd_path, packages):
+    if not os.path.isdir(nvd_path):
+        os.makedirs(nvd_path)
+
+    for cve in CVE.read_nvd_dir(nvd_path):
+        for pkg_name in cve.pkg_names:
+            if pkg_name in packages and cve.affects(packages[pkg_name]):
+                packages[pkg_name].cves.append(cve.identifier)
+
+
 def calculate_stats(packages):
     stats = defaultdict(int)
     for pkg in packages:
@@ -390,6 +523,9 @@ def calculate_stats(packages):
         else:
             stats["version-not-uptodate"] += 1
         stats["patches"] += pkg.patch_count
+        stats["total-cves"] += len(pkg.cves)
+        if len(pkg.cves) != 0:
+            stats["pkg-cves"] += 1
     return stats
 
 
@@ -601,6 +737,17 @@ def dump_html_pkg(f, pkg):
     f.write("  <td class=\"%s\">%s</td>\n" %
             (" ".join(td_class), url_str))
 
+    # CVEs
+    td_class = ["centered"]
+    if len(pkg.cves) == 0:
+        td_class.append("correct")
+    else:
+        td_class.append("wrong")
+    f.write("  <td class=\"%s\">\n" % " ".join(td_class))
+    for cve in pkg.cves:
+        f.write("   <a href=\"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/%s\">%s<br/>\n" % (cve, cve))
+    f.write("  </td>\n")
+
     f.write(" </tr>\n")
 
 
@@ -618,6 +765,7 @@ def dump_html_all_pkgs(f, packages):
 <td class=\"centered\">Latest version</td>
 <td class=\"centered\">Warnings</td>
 <td class=\"centered\">Upstream URL</td>
+<td class=\"centered\">CVEs</td>
 </tr>
 """)
     for pkg in sorted(packages):
@@ -656,6 +804,10 @@ def dump_html_stats(f, stats):
             stats["version-not-uptodate"])
     f.write("<tr><td>Packages with no known upstream version</td><td>%s</td></tr>\n" %
             stats["version-unknown"])
+    f.write("<tr><td>Packages affected by CVEs</td><td>%s</td></tr>\n" %
+            stats["pkg-cves"])
+    f.write("<tr><td>Total number of CVEs affecting all packages</td><td>%s</td></tr>\n" %
+            stats["total-cves"])
     f.write("</table>\n")
 
 
@@ -714,6 +866,8 @@ def parse_args():
                           help='Number of packages')
     packages.add_argument('-p', dest='packages', action='store',
                           help='List of packages (comma separated)')
+    parser.add_argument('--nvd-path', dest='nvd_path',
+                        help='Path to the local NVD database')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if not args.html and not args.json:
         parser.error('at least one of --html or --json (or both) is required')
@@ -746,6 +900,9 @@ def __main__():
     check_package_urls(packages)
     print("Getting latest versions ...")
     check_package_latest_version(packages)
+    if args.nvd_path:
+        print("Checking packages CVEs")
+        check_package_cves(args.nvd_path, {p.name: p for p in packages})
     print("Calculate stats")
     stats = calculate_stats(packages)
     if args.html:
