Glossary: Vulnerability Management and Monitoring

NVD

Also written: National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database: the US government's public database of CVE records, run by NIST. Since April 2026 NIST enriches the most urgent CVEs first, so many records carry only the publishing organization's score.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 1: Finding and Ranking Vulnerabilities
Chapter 6: What's next

Related terms

CVE CVSS NIST