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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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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems10 citations · 10 defined by this document · observed 2026-10-20 under anchor/0.9/36554/2026-10-20/set-r11, anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.11.02.c ¶ 203.11.02.c ¶ 203.14.01.b ¶ 13.2.1 ¶ 73.2.1 ¶ 803.11.02.c ¶ 203.11.02.c ¶ 203.14.01.b ¶ 13.2.1 ¶ 73.2.1 ¶ 8

Classifications

Entity Type

Technical Specification100%manual reviewI-079.framework_split

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

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

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
A dictionary of common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
An SCAP specification that provides unique, common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
A dictionary of common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
NIST SP 800-1281 senseview framework →
§1
An SCAP specification that provides unique, common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
NIST SP 800-511 senseview framework →
§1
A dictionary of common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
An SCAP specification that provides unique, common names for publicly known information system vulnerabilities.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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