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Common Vulnerability Scoring System

nounid 1872·updated Aug 28, 2026
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An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.

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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems4 citations · 4 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.11.02.c ¶ 203.11.02.c ¶ 23.2.1 ¶ 93.2.1 ¶ 10

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

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

Variants

acronym
CVSS
plural
Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems
possessive
Common Vulnerability Scoring System's
pluralpossessive
Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.
NIST SP 800-1281 senseview framework →
§1
An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
CVSS: Common Vulnerabilit y Scoring System
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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