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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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An SCAP specification that provides unique, common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.

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NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

A dictionary of common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.

NIST SP 800-171r3acronym list

CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
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Sensitivity

Public85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
CVE
possessive
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures's
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposureses'