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Bug, Fault, Error, Weakness, or Vulnerability - Poster

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Irena Bojanova

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Motivation: Software security vulnerabilities are leveraged to attack cyberspace and critical infrastructure, leading to security failures. When communicating about them, however, even security experts might conflate essential related software concepts. Objective: Define software security bug, exploitable error, weakness, and vulnerability; software fault and error; and failure in the context of cybersecurity, and elucidate their causation and propagation.
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Bugs Framework (BF)
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https://usnistgov.github.io/BF/
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Bug, Bugs Framework (BF), Cybersecurity, Failure, Fault, Error, Vulnerability, Weakness
Software research, Information technology and Cybersecurity

Citation

Bojanova, I. (2023), Bug, Fault, Error, Weakness, or Vulnerability - Poster, Bugs Framework (BF), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=956983, https://usnistgov.github.io/BF/ (Accessed October 3, 2024)

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Created November 7, 2023, Updated December 15, 2023