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National Vulnerability Database

Official docs outline

9 sections
  1. About NVD

    What NVD provides: CVE enrichment, CVSS scores, CWE and CPE data.

  2. Vulnerability Detail Pages

    Reading CVE detail pages and their metrics.

  3. Vulnerability Status

    Received, Awaiting Analysis, Analyzed, Deferred and Rejected statuses.

  4. CVSS Metrics

    CVSS scoring use and statistics in NVD.

  5. CWE Categories

    How CWE weakness types are assigned to CVEs.

  6. CPE

    Common Platform Enumeration naming for affected products.

  7. Vulnerabilities API

    REST API for CVE data.

  8. API Start Here

    API keys, rate limits and usage guidance.

  9. Data Feeds

    Bulk JSON data feeds.

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