Common Vulnerabilities And Exposures (CVE)¶
CVE, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, is a standardized, industry-recognized list of publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures in software and hardware. Maintained by the MITRE Corporation, it acts as a dictionary that assigns unique identifiers, e.g. CVE-2022-44702, to security flaws. This allows professionals to uniformly identify, track, and remediate risks.
See also PHP : Vulnerability Statistics, cve.org and MITRE.
Related : Vulnerability, Penetration Test