This page allows you to
access the
CVE Candidate
list. The candidate list contains only those vulnerabilities
and security
exposures
that are under consideration by
the Editorial Board for final acceptance into the CVE list where they become official
CVE entries. CVE entries and candidates are assigned numbers which distinguish them
from each other.
CVE candidates
have numbers like
CAN-1999-0067
whereas
CVE entrie
s have numbers like
CVE-1999-0067
. To access the official
CVE list, you might want to visit the
CVE
page.
Candidates go through
several phases during the approval process. These phases are noted in the candidate
information. To learn more about candidate phases, please refer to the
CVE
Naming Process
page.
You have three options
to obtain Candidate Data:
-
View (no longer available)
option provides an HTML formatted
listing of the current version of the Candidate list.
-
Download (no longer available)
option allows you to download
the entire candidate list in various formats: (HTML, Text, or comma separated).
-
Search
allows you to search candidate
list by keywords or by candidate name. NOTE: if you search by keyword, the search
engine will also return relevant CVE entries.
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