---
title: "Updates information about the organization specified by short name (accessible to Secretariat or same-organization Admin)"
method: PUT
path: "/registry/org/{shortname}"
tags: ["Registry Organization"]
---

# Updates information about the organization specified by short name (accessible to Secretariat or same-organization Admin)

`PUT /registry/org/{shortname}`

<h2>Access Control</h2>  <p>User must belong to an organization with the <b>Secretariat</b> role or be an <b>Admin</b> of the requested organization.</p>  <p>With Joint Approval required for the following fields:</p>  <h2>Expected Behavior</h2>  <b>This endpoint expects a full organization object in the request body.</b>  <p><b>Secretariat:</b> Updates any organization's information</p>  <p><b>Organization Admin:</b> Requests changes to its organization's information</p>  <ul>  <li>short_name</li>  <li>long_name</li>  <li>authority</li>  <li>aliases</li>  <li>oversees</li>  <li>top_level_root</li>  <li>charter_or_scope</li>  <li>product_list</li>  <li>disclosure_policy</li>  <li>contact_info.websites</li>  <li>contact_info.emails</li>  <li>contact_info.phone</li>  <li>partner_role_type</li>  <li>partner_country</li>  <li>advisory_locations</li>  <li>advisory_location_require_credentials</li>  <li>vulnerability_advisory_location_for_web_scraping</li>  <li>industry</li>  <li>tl_root_start_date</li>  <li>is_cna_discussion_list</li>  </ul>

## Path parameters

- `shortname` string, required

## Headers

- `CVE-API-ORG` string, required
- `CVE-API-USER` string, required
- `CVE-API-KEY` string, required

## Request body

- UpdateRegistryOrgRequestJson — unresolved $ref

## Response `200`

Returns information about the organization updated

- UpdateRegistryOrgResponseJson — unresolved $ref

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Not Authenticated
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Not Found
- `500` — Internal Server Error

## Changes

- **2026-07-20** `8dbf1b328a70` — 1 info
  - api operation id `orgUpdateSingle` removed and replaced with `registryOrgUpdateSingle`
- **2026-02-13** `8341cde9e0c0` — 1 breaking, 5 warning
  - added required request body
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `active_roles.add`
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `active_roles.remove`
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `id_quota`
  - …2 more
- **2025-12-05** `7225ce9cee29` — 1 warning
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `registry`
- **2025-11-04** `26ede34bbf48` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2025-10-14** `2c44a137d9b0` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/cveproject/apis/cve-services-api/changes/registry/org/:shortname/put.md)

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