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National Vulnerability Database

nounid 3329·updated Aug 28, 2026
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The U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g., FISMA).

MWE

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 ¶ 433.2.1 ¶ 44

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

acronym
NVD
plural
National Vulnerability Databases
possessive
National Vulnerability Database's
pluralpossessive
National Vulnerability Databases'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
The U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g., FISMA).
NIST National Vulnerability Database (nvd.nist.gov)1 senseview framework →
§1
The U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g., FISMA).
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
NVD: National Vulnerabilit y Database
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
The U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g., FISMA).
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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