diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties b/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
index c67ad867c..271845516 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
+++ b/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
@@ -43,12 +43,13 @@ data.driver_path=
 cve.url.modified.validfordays=7
 # the number of hours to wait before checking if updates are available from the NVD.
 cve.check.validforhours=4
+#first year to pull data from the URLs below
+cve.startyear=2002
 # the path to the modified nvd cve xml file.
 cve.url-1.2.modified=https://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvdcve-Modified.xml.gz
 #cve.url-1.2.modified=http://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvdcve-modified.xml
 cve.url-2.0.modified=https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/xml/cve/nvdcve-2.0-Modified.xml.gz
 #cve.url-2.0.modified=http://static.nvd.nist.gov/feeds/xml/cve/nvdcve-2.0-modified.xml
-cve.startyear=2002
 cve.url-1.2.base=https://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvdcve-%d.xml.gz
 #cve.url-1.2.base=http://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvdcve-%d.xml
 cve.url-2.0.base=https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/xml/cve/nvdcve-2.0-%d.xml.gz