home/glossary/Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

nouncandidate·updated May 18, 2026

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

polysemousMWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Vulnerability0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
?unassignedlast reviewed

Sensitivity

Public85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed

Variants

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