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title: National Vulnerability Database \(NVD\) integration
description: The NVD integrations use data from the NIST National Vulnerability Database to help you determine the impact and priority of flaws in your code. Run this integration as part of your initial setup of Vulnerability Response and before importing vulnerability data into your instance with a third-party scanner product.
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# National Vulnerability Database \(NVD\) integration

The NVD integrations use data from the NIST National Vulnerability Database to help you determine the impact and priority of flaws in your code. Run this integration as part of your initial setup of Vulnerability Response and before importing vulnerability data into your instance with a third-party scanner product.

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The NIST NVD collects both Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures \(CVE\) and Common Platform Enumeration \(CPE\) data and makes that data available to the ServiceNow AI Platform®. It easily integrates with Vulnerability Response to map CVE and CPE vulnerabilities enriching the data in your instance.

**Important:** There’s a configured run-as user for each integration record. The default value for this user is **VR.System**. Don't change this value.

After it’s installed, the NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration-API \(CVE only\) integration is invoked automatically as a scheduled job and runs daily. You can also execute individual scheduled jobs manually. Scheduled jobs simplify the vulnerability remediation life cycle by keeping the instance synchronized with other vulnerability management systems.

**Tip:** Activation of this plugin on production instances may require a separate license.

**Note:** Unified Security Exposure Management \(USEM\) enriches CVE entries with Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization \(SSVC\) decision values from the NVD, which appear as new fields in the Exploitability section of the CVDB record. See [SSVC enrichment for CVEs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/nvd-ssvc-enrichment.md) for details on the new fields.

## Available versions

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Vulnerability Response Integration with NVD v1.2

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</table>## Initial import of vulnerability data with the NVD and CWE integrations

1.  Perform an initial import of CWE data with the CWE Comprehensive 2000 Integration.

    See [Configure and run the scheduled job for updating CWE records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/t_ConfigureScheduledJobsCWE.md). You perform CWE updates **On Demand** from the integration record by default, and, you must configure it.

    **Note:** Schedule the CWE update to run before the NVD database update. The default day for the NVD update is **Weekly** on **Monday**.

2.  Verify the Vulnerability Response Integration with NVD application is installed and initial data import is successful. See [Install the Vulnerability Response Integration with the NIST National Vulnerability Database](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/install-nvd.md) for more information.
3.  Third-party libraries are updated as scheduled jobs. Refer to your integration documentation at [Vulnerability Response integrations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vuln_integrations.md) for more information about third-party integrations.

## Imported vulnerability data and vulnerable items

In your ServiceNow AI Platform instance, each imported vulnerability is represented by a vulnerability entry in the source libraries of third-party scanner products like Qualys, for example. The vulnerable items \(VI\)s that are imported and updated in your instance are references to third-party libraries, such as the Qualys library. A third-party library can, in turn, reference back to the NVD.

For example, when you ingest third-party vulnerability data from a product like Qualys, you're ingesting VIs that reference a QID \(Qualys Identifier\). In the case of Qualys, that QID in turn references a CVE from the NVD library. When you select that QID in a remediation task or vulnerable item record in the Vulnerability Response application, you're viewing current, enriched vulnerability data. This data shows the relationships between your VIs and CVEs, CWEs, and CPEs after you run the NVD and CWE integrations.

Before you run a third-party scanner product like Qualys that has its own library, you must first install and run the NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration- API \(CVE only\) integration and the CWE Integration. At a minimum, these integrations ingest vulnerability data and CISA-related details. These NVD and CWE data imports enrich your Vulnerability Response or Application Vulnerability Response data before importing data with a third-party product.

For more information about managing the NVD, CWE, and third-party libraries and viewing them, see [Importing data with the NVD and CWE integrations and managing third-party libraries](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/c_NVDAndCWEDataImport.md) and [View Vulnerability Response vulnerability libraries](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/view-vuln-libraries.md).

After you verify the successful NVD import, to further enrich your vulnerability data, [Configure and run the scheduled job for updating CWE records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/t_ConfigureScheduledJobsCWE.md).

Perform the NVD and CWE imports before importing vulnerability data with a third-party product. Third-party libraries are updated as scheduled jobs. Refer to your integration documentation at [Vulnerability Response integrations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/vuln_integrations.md) for more information about third-party integrations.

## Locating the NVD integrations

To view the NVD integrations, navigate to **Vulnerability Response or Application Vulnerability Response** &gt; **Administration** &gt; **Integrations**.

The following integrations are included in the base system.

**Note:** Only the NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration - API \(CVE only\) integration is active, by default.

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Integration

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Description

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NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration - API \(CVE only\)

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Retrieves only NIST NVD vulnerability data \(CVE\). By default, this integration is automatically set to run daily.

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NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration-API \(CPE only\)

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Retrieves CPE data from NIST NVD. This integration is inactive by default. Activate this integration if you want to capture CPE data that includes a formal name format, a method for checking names against a system, and a description format for binding text and tests to a name. This information is stored in Vulnerable Software.

This integration is set to run daily and is inactive by default. To activate this integration, see [Activate the NIST National Vulnerability Database–API \(CPE only\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/install-nvd.md).

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NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration-API \(Unmapped CPE\)

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Retrieves CPE data associated with fetched CVE from NIST NVD. This integration is inactive by default.Activate this integration if you want to capture CPE data that includes a formal name format, a method for checking names against a system, and a description format for binding text and tests to a name. This information is stored in an NVD vulnerability entry record related list. This integration is set to run On Demand and is inactive by default. To activate this integration, see [Activate the NIST National Vulnerability Database–API \(Unmapped CPE\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/install-nvd.md).

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</table>**Important:** The “NIST National Vulnerability Database Integration-API \(CVE and CPE\)” integration is deprecated.

For integration run statuses see, [View the \(National Vulnerability Database\) NVD integration import run status](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-response/nvd-check-imports.md).