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Glossary: Vulnerability, Asset and Change Management

CPE (Common Platform Enumeration)

Also written: CPE

Standard names for products and versions in SCAP, so content knows which systems it applies to. That's why the Ubuntu 22.04 profile reported notapplicable on Ubuntu 24.04.

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Related terms

SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol)OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language)XCCDF (Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format)