Vulnerabilities

The fields in the Vulnerabilities data model and Vulnerability event category describe vulnerability detection data.

Tags used with the Vulnerabilities data model and event category

Object name(s)	Tag name	Required?
Vulnerabilities	report	YES
Vulnerabilities	vulnerability	YES

Fields for the Vulnerabilities data model and event category

Object name(s)	Field name	Data type	Description	Possible values
Vulnerabilities	bugtraq	string	Corresponds to an identifier in the vulnerability database provided by the Security Focus website (searchable at http://www.securityfocus.com/).
Vulnerabilities	category	string	The category of the discovered vulnerability, such as DoS. Note: This field is a string. Please use a category_id field for fields that are integer data type. Keep in mind that the category_id field is optional and thus is not part of the CIM.
Vulnerabilities	cert	string	Corresponds to an identifier in the vulnerability database provided by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT, searchable at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/).
Vulnerabilities	cve	string	Corresponds to an identifier provided in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures index (searchable at http://cve.mitre.org).
Vulnerabilities	dest	string	The host with the discovered vulnerability. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as dest_host, dest_ip, or dest_name.
Vulnerabilities	dvc	string	The system that discovered the vulnerability. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as dvc_host, dvc_ip, or dvc_name.
Vulnerabilities	msft	string	Corresponds to a Microsoft Security Advisory number (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/).
Vulnerabilities	mskb	string	Corresponds to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article number (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/).
Vulnerabilities	product	string	The product or service that detected the vulnerability. This field is used to automatically produce the vendor_product field used by data models.
Vulnerabilities	severity	string	The severity of the vulnerability detection event. Specific values are required. Use vendor_severity for the vendor's own human readable strings (such as Good, Bad, and Really Bad). Note: This field is a string. Please use a severity_id field for severity ID fields that are integer data types. Keep in mind that the severity_id field is optional and thus is not part of the CIM.	critical, high, informational, low, medium, unknown
Vulnerabilities	signature	string	The name of the vulnerability detected on the host, such as HPSBMU02785 SSRT100526 rev.2 - HP LoadRunner Running on Windows, Remote Execution of Arbitrary Code, Denial of Service (DoS). Note: This field has a string value. Please use signature_id for numeric indicators. Keep in mind that the signature_id field is optional and thus is not part of the CIM.
Vulnerabilities	vendor	string	The vendor of the vulnerability detection product or service. This field is used to automatically produce the vendor_product field used by data models.
Vulnerabilities	xref	string	A cross-reference identifier associated with the vulnerability. In most cases, the xref field contains both the short name of the database being cross-referenced and the unique identifier used in the external database.