# National Vulnerability Database API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-overview/  
**Provider:** NVD — https://apis.io/providers/nvd/  
**Documentation:** https://nvd.nist.gov/developers

National Vulnerability Database API is one of 6 APIs that [NVD](https://apis.io/providers/nvd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Security, CVE, Vulnerability, RSS, and XML. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) provides REST and RSS/Atom APIs for CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) data. APIs deliver vulnerability descriptions, CVSS severity scores, affected product lists, and reference links for security monitoring and dependency alerting.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nvd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other NVD APIs (5)

- [NVD CPE API](https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-cpe-api/)
- [NVD CPE Match API](https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-cpe-match-api/)
- [NVD CVE API](https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-cve-api/)
- [NVD CVE Change History API](https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-cve-change-history-api/)
- [NVD Sources API](https://apis.io/apis/nvd/nvd-sources-api/)

## Tags

Security, CVE, Vulnerability, RSS, XML

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