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Glossary

Definitions and Abbreviations in the Context of the Vilocify Service

Term Description
Advisory Vendor published statement on a validated vulnerability and instructions how to handle this issue.
Component See description of component.
COTS Commercial off-the-shelf: Components / products sold ready to use. These components are not customized.
CPE Common Platform Enumeration: structured naming scheme for IT components provided by NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures: a unique, alphanumeric identifier assigned by the CVE Program, referencing a specific vulnerability
CVE completeness See description of notification
CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System is an open framework for communicating the characteristics and severity of vulnerabilities.
EOL End of Life date, see description of component.
Monitoring List See description of monitoring list.
Monitoring List Owner Subscribers of a monitoring list who have the permission to modify the list, i.e. adding or removing subscribers, adding or removing components, editing its basic data, or deleting the list entirely.
Monitoring List Subscriber User assigned to a monitoring list and will therefore receive notifications emails containing relevant notifications.
Notification See description of notification.
Notifications Email See description of notifications email.
OSS Open-source software: Software (components) from source code that is free available, but not always for free.
Security Notification See description of notification.
Vilocify Vulnerability Intelligence Service
Vulnerability Weakness of an component (or product) that can be exploited by an attacker

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