diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
index e2584d21b3..8e5b83d7f1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def nvd_request_next(url, api_key, args):
 
     full_request = url + '?' + data
 
-    for attempt in range(3):
+    for attempt in range(5):
         try:
             r = urllib.request.urlopen(full_request)