Quick Start Session For Using CPE Within the CVE Record Format
CVE/FIRST VulnCon 2025 · Main Stage
This talk, presented by Chris Coffin of the MITRE Corporation, introduces significant enhancements to the **CVE Record Format**, specifically the integration of robust support for **Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) 2.3** and its **applicability language**. The core problem addressed is the need for a standardized, machine-readable way to identify affected products and platforms within CVE records, moving beyond simple text descriptions. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has long utilized CPE for this purpose, the CVE program itself lacked a comprehensive mechanism to capture these intricate relationships directly within the CVE record.
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A competent, workmanlike tutorial on integrating CPE 2.3 applicability language into CVE Record Format v5.1.1. Coffin clearly knows this material cold — he's lived inside the CVE program for over a decade — and the talk does what it sets out to do: give CNAs a practical guide for populating the new configurations block. This isn't research, it's documentation with a pulse. It belongs at VulnCon, it serves the audience it's targeting, and it's better than a static spec page. But it's not going to be anyone's conference highlight.