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Mission and Overview

NVD is 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).

Resource Status

NVD contains:

39671	CVE Vulnerabilities
129	Checklists
187	US-CERT Alerts
2350	US-CERT Vuln Notes
2517	OVAL Queries

Last updated: 11/20/09

CVE Publication rate:

12 vulnerabilities / day

Email List

NVD provides four mailing lists to the public. For information and subscription instructions please visit NVD Mailing Lists

Workload Index

Vulnerability Workload Index: 6.19

About Us

NVD is a product of the NIST Computer Security Division and is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division. It supports the U.S. government multi-agency (OSD, DHS, NSA, DISA, and NIST) Information Security Automation Program. It is the U.S. government content repository for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).

National Vulnerability Database Version 2.2

NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. NVD includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics.

Federal Desktop Core Configuration settings (FDCC)
NVD contains content (and pointers to tools) for performing configuration checking of systems implementing the FDCC using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).
FDCC Checklists are available here (to be used with SCAP FDCC capable tools).
SCAP FDCC Capable Tools are available here.

NVD Primary Resources

Vulnerability Search Engine (CVE software flaws and CCE misconfigurations)
National Checklist Program (automatable security configuration guidance in XCCDF and OVAL)
SCAP (program and protocol that NVD supports)
SCAP Compatible Tools
SCAP Data Feeds (CVE, CCE, CPE, CVSS, XCCDF, OVAL)
Product Dictionary (CPE)
Impact Metrics (CVSS)
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

NVD/SCAP Recent Activity:

October 26, 2009: 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference
September 05, 2008: NVD updated to version 2.2
August 18, 2008: OMB has release a new memo relating to FDCC and the SCAP validation program. The memo can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2008/m08-22.pdf
August 11, 2008: Interactive Schema and the Interactive Schema Interpreter is now available through NVD at http://nvd.nist.gov/interactive.cfm
Minor update made to FDCC Reporting Format - update pertains to the Schematron Stylesheet, please reference the changelog for details.
Version 1.0.2 of the SCAP Validation Program Derived Test Requirements Document has been released.
All presentations from the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Implementers Workshop have been posted at: http://nvd.nist.gov/workshop.cfm
January 24, 2008: Free Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Implementers Workshop held at NIST. Workshop will address technical aspects of FDCC and corresponding Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) updates.
January 21, 2008: XCCDF-based FDCC reporting format has been released. Specification and associated schematron stylesheet can be found at http://nvd.nist.gov/scap/content/fdcc-reporting_20080108.zip
October 16, 2007: The NVD CVSS V2 calculator has been updated to comply with the official CVSS V2 Specification. For more information please see: NVD CVSS
October 12, 2007: The Draft of XCCDF Specification 1.1.4 has been posted to the NVD XCCDF Webpage.
September 27, 2007: NVD is now mapping into a cross section of the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). Please see the NVD CWE page for more details.
September 19 and 20, 2007: The 3rd Annual IT Security Automation Conference was held at NIST. Presentations from the conference can be found here: http://nvd.nist.gov/presentations.cfm
August 6, 2007: A U.S. Office of Management and Budget memorandum requires specific secure configuration settings for Microsoft operating systems and requires use of SCAP validated tools to monitor system configurations over time.
August 6, 2007: The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requires use of NVD Common Vulnerability Scoring System impact scores for use within approved scanning vendor tools.
July 27, 2007: The National Vulnerability Database announces support for the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) standard for vendor and product naming.
June 20, 2007: The National Vulnerability Database deployed support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) version 2.0.
May 22, 2007: The National Vulnerability Database upgraded to version 2.0. NIST Checklist Program moved within NVD.
Plans for the 3rd Annual Security Automation Conference and Workshop to be held Sept 19th & 20th, 2007 are under way.
May 9, 2007: Released Windows XP Professional beta version 7 security automation files
April 13, 2007: Released Windows 2000 Professional security automation files beta version 1 (XCCDF skeleton and patch content)
April 5, 2007: Released Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 7.0 security automation files beta version 8
April 5, 2007: Released Windows Vista security automation files version 5.0
April 4, 2007: Released Windows 2003 Server security automation files version 2.0
March 28, 2007: Released Microsoft Office 2007 security automation files beta version 4
March 27, 2007: Released Symantec Antivirus security automation files beta version 2

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