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May 24, 2025

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NIST launches ‘Bugs Framework’ to promote precision in cyber vulnerability classification

By Jacob Livesay / July 31, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a framework on making information in cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure more precise, as the first step in launching a series of publications aimed at promoting an increased understanding of security failures across the vulnerability management ecosystem.

“The Bugs Framework (BF) is a classification of security bugs and related faults that features a formal language for the unambiguous specification of software and hardware security weaknesses and vulnerabilities,” NIST says in the Tuesday...


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