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Common vulnerabilities and exposures

Common vulnerabilities and exposures

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Common vulnerabilities and exposures

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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is the go-to resource for security professionals. The C-V-E is an extensive list of entries that provides detailed information on known vulnerabilities. Each C-V-E has an identification number, a score, and additional information. The score is derived from a set of metrics using the Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System, an industry standard that rates the severity of vulnerabilities. The C-V-E is used in many places, such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls, and security advisories, and it feeds into the National Vulnerability Database. I'm here at this website. I did a search on S-Q-L injection. This is a common vulnerability, and it's where an attacker spoofs a data-driven application by injecting string values into a form field in order to expose the database contents. So here you can see all of the different entries in here. And we'll scroll down, and as you can see,…

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