diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
index c85df23f59..e2584d21b3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ def nvd_request_next(url, api_key, args):
     import urllib.parse
     import gzip
     import http
+    import time
 
     headers = {}
     if api_key:
@@ -140,13 +141,9 @@ def nvd_request_next(url, api_key, args):
 
             r.close()
 
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            # Received garbage, retry
-            bb.debug(2, "CVE database: received malformed data, retrying (request: %s)" %(full_request))
-            pass
-        except http.client.IncompleteRead:
-            # Read incomplete, let's try again
-            bb.debug(2, "CVE database: received incomplete data, retrying (request: %s)" %(full_request))
+        except Exception as e:
+            bb.debug(2, "CVE database: received error (%s), retrying (request: %s)" %(e, full_request))
+            time.sleep(6)
             pass
         else:
             return raw_data