/nvd/cves

POST /api/nvd/cves

Price: 5 credits

Get a CVE vulnerability record by its CVE identifier

How to use it

Get the full NVD (National Vulnerability Database) record for a vulnerability by CVE id (e.g. 'CVE-2021-44228'). Returns the description, publication and last-modified dates, analysis status, CWE weakness ids, CVSS v2 / v3.0 / v3.1 / v4.0 severity metrics (vector, base score, severity, exploitability and impact sub-scores), SSVC decision points, affected vendors/products and version ranges, CPE applicability configurations, reference links with tags, vendor comments, and — when the vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — the KEV exploit-added date, action due date, required action and catalog name.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• cve_id string required — CVE identifier (also accepts a nvd.nist.gov vulnerability detail URL) (examples: "CVE-2021-44228", "CVE-2024-3596"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NvdCve")
• id string required
• source_identifier string nullable
• published_at string nullable
• last_modified_at string nullable
• vuln_status string nullable
• description string nullable
• cve_tags array (default: [])
• evaluator_comment string nullable
• evaluator_solution string nullable
• evaluator_impact string nullable
• cwe_ids array (default: [])
• weaknesses array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdWeakness")
  • source string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • cwe_ids array (default: [])
• cvss_metrics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdCvssMetric")
  • version string required
  • source string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • vector_string string nullable
  • base_score number nullable
  • base_severity string nullable
  • exploitability_score number nullable
  • impact_score number nullable
  • attack_vector string nullable
  • attack_complexity string nullable
  • attack_requirements string nullable
  • privileges_required string nullable
  • user_interaction string nullable
  • authentication string nullable
  • scope string nullable
  • confidentiality_impact string nullable
  • integrity_impact string nullable
  • availability_impact string nullable
  • sub_confidentiality_impact string nullable
  • sub_integrity_impact string nullable
  • sub_availability_impact string nullable
• ssvc array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdSsvc")
  • source string nullable
  • role string nullable
  • version string nullable
  • computed_at string nullable
  • exploitation string nullable
  • automatable string nullable
  • technical_impact string nullable
• configurations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdConfiguration")
  • operator string nullable
  • negate boolean (default: false)
  • nodes array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "NvdConfigNode")
    • operator string nullable
    • negate boolean (default: false)
    • cpe_matches array (default: [])
• references array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdReference")
  • url string required
  • source string nullable
  • tags array (default: [])
• affected array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdAffectedProduct")
  • source string nullable
  • vendor string nullable
  • product string nullable
  • versions array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "NvdAffectedVersion")
    • version string nullable
    • status string nullable
    • version_type string nullable
    • less_than string nullable
    • less_than_or_equal string nullable
• vendor_comments array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NvdVendorComment")
  • organization string nullable
  • text string nullable
  • last_modified string nullable
• is_kev boolean (default: false)
• cisa_exploit_add string nullable
• cisa_action_due string nullable
• cisa_required_action string nullable
• cisa_vulnerability_name string nullable
• web_url string (default: "")

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — CVE not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.