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SCAP 1.3 Component Specification Version Updates: An Annex to NIST Special Publication 800-126 Revision 3

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Author(s)

Harold Booth, David A. Waltermire, Mark L. Badger, Melanie R. Cook, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone

Abstract

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a multi-purpose framework of component specifications that support automated configuration, vulnerability, and patch checking, security measurement, and technical control compliance activities. The SCAP version 1.3 specification is defined by the combination of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-126 Revision 3, a set of schemas, and this document. This document allows the use of particular minor version updates to SCAP 1.3 component specifications and the use of particular Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) core schema and platform schema versions. Allowing use of these updates and schemas provides additional functionality for SCAP 1.3 without causing any loss of existing functionality.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-126A
Report Number
800-126A
NIST Pub Series
Special Publication (NIST SP)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), security automation, security configuration, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)

Citation

Booth, H. , Waltermire, D. , Badger, M. , Cook, M. , Quinn, S. and Scarfone, K. (2018), SCAP 1.3 Component Specification Version Updates: An Annex to NIST Special Publication 800-126 Revision 3, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-126A (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created February 13, 2018, Updated October 12, 2021
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