diff --git a/cmd/cvetriage/main.go b/cmd/cvetriage/main.go
index 89530c3..152e7a2 100644
--- a/cmd/cvetriage/main.go
+++ b/cmd/cvetriage/main.go
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@
 	statusTriaged       = "triaged"
 )
 
-func readTriagedCVEList() (_ map[string]bool, err error) {
+func readTriagedCVEList() (_ map[string]string, err error) {
 	defer derrors.Wrap(&err, "readTriagedCVEList()")
-	triaged := map[string]bool{}
+	triaged := map[string]string{}
 	lines, err := internal.ReadFileLines(triagedCVEList)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -71,20 +71,20 @@
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected syntax: %q", l)
 		}
 		var (
-			cveID  = vuln[0]
-			status = vuln[1]
+			cveID = vuln[0]
+			state = vuln[1]
 		)
-		if status != statusFalsePositive && status != statusTriaged {
+		if state != statusFalsePositive && state != statusTriaged {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected syntax: %q", l)
 		}
-		if status == statusTriaged {
+		if state == statusTriaged {
 			if len(vuln) != 3 {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected syntax: %q", l)
 			}
-			triaged[cveID] = true
+			triaged[cveID] = state
 		}
-		if status == statusFalsePositive {
-			triaged[cveID] = true
+		if state == statusFalsePositive {
+			triaged[cveID] = state
 		}
 	}
 	return triaged, nil
diff --git a/internal/worker/worker.go b/internal/worker/worker.go
index 1c7957a..fca2e81 100644
--- a/internal/worker/worker.go
+++ b/internal/worker/worker.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 // Run clones the CVEProject/cvelist repository and compares the files to the
 // existing triaged-cve-list.
-func Run(dirpath string, triaged map[string]bool) (err error) {
+func Run(dirpath string, triaged map[string]string) (err error) {
 	defer derrors.Wrap(&err, "Run(triaged)")
 	var repo *git.Repository
 	if dirpath != "" {
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 // team.
 // TODO: Create GitHub issues. At the moment, this just prints the number of
 // issues to be created.
-func createIssuesToTriage(r *git.Repository, t *object.Tree, triaged map[string]bool) (err error) {
+func createIssuesToTriage(r *git.Repository, t *object.Tree, triaged map[string]string) (err error) {
 	defer derrors.Wrap(&err, "createIssuesToTriage(r, t, triaged)")
 	log.Printf("Finding new Go vulnerabilities from CVE list...")
 	cves, issues, err := walkRepo(r, t, "", triaged)
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 
 // walkRepo looks at the files in t, recursively, and check if it is a CVE that
 // needs to be manually triaged.
-func walkRepo(r *git.Repository, t *object.Tree, dirpath string, triaged map[string]bool) (newCVEs map[string]bool, newIssues []*GoVulnIssue, err error) {
+func walkRepo(r *git.Repository, t *object.Tree, dirpath string, triaged map[string]string) (newCVEs map[string]bool, newIssues []*GoVulnIssue, err error) {
 	defer derrors.Wrap(&err, "walkRepo(r, t, %q, triaged)", dirpath)
 	newCVEs = map[string]bool{}
 	for _, e := range t.Entries {
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 				continue
 			}
 			cveID := strings.TrimSuffix(e.Name, ".json")
-			if triaged[cveID] {
+			if _, ok := triaged[cveID]; ok {
 				continue
 			}
 			newCVEs[cveID] = true