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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:

32678 CVE Vulnerabilities
161Checklists
151 US-CERT Alerts
2257 US-CERT Vuln Notes
2097OVAL Queries

Last updated:  09/15/08

CVE Publication rate:

11 vulnerabilities / day
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Workload Index
Vulnerability Workload Index: 6.66
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. NVD supports the Information Security Automation Program (ISAP).

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.

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