The Distributed Open-Source Vulnerability Ecosystem

arXiv:2607.14900 · cs.CR, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

Peter Mandl, Paul Mandl

cs.CR, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

Project page: https://ossf.github.io/osv-schema

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• National Vulnerability Database — 8× in this paper
• Software Bill of Materials — 5× in this paper
• Software Composition Analysis — 4× in this paper
• Exploit Prediction Scoring System — 3× in this paper
• Japan Vulnerability Notes — 3× in this paper
• Open Source Vulnerability Format — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• China National Vulnerability Database — 2× in this paper
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures — 2× in this paper
• Common Vulnerability Scoring System — 2× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement — 2× in this paper
• Microsoft Security Response Center — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Ground-Truth-Based Evaluation of Vulnerability Detection Across Multiple Ecosystems
• VulCPE: Context-Aware Cybersecurity Vulnerability Retrieval and Management

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