National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Institute of Standards and Technology CPE API

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CPE API
  description: The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) API, operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides programmatic access to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) records, CVE change history, and Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) records. The API supports pagination, filtering, and date-range queries for vulnerability and product data.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: NIST NVD
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
servers:
- url: https://services.nvd.nist.gov
  description: NVD production services
tags:
- name: CPE
  description: Common Platform Enumeration
paths:
  /rest/json/cpes/2.0:
    get:
      tags:
      - CPE
      summary: Search CPE records
      description: Retrieve Common Platform Enumeration records with optional filters by CPE Name ID, match string, keyword, modification date range, and match criteria identifier.
      operationId: getCpes
      parameters:
      - name: cpeNameId
        in: query
        description: Specific CPE record UUID.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
      - name: cpeMatchString
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: keywordSearch
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: keywordExactMatch
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: lastModStartDate
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: lastModEndDate
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: matchCriteriaId
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
      - name: resultsPerPage
        in: query
        description: Maximum results per page (default and max 10000).
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 10000
      - name: startIndex
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated CPE records envelope.