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Several community-sponsored vulnerability ID alternatives to CVE have recently been announced. These vulnerability IDs are used in a similar way to CVE IDs: they are unique identifiers for a particular vulnerability.

A good discussion of these alternatives is provided by CERT/CC's Allen Householder in the blog post "Vulnerability IDs, Fast and Slow".

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Distributed Weakness Filing (DWF)

DWF is meant to be complimentary and compatible with CVE; for example, DWF-2016-1000 would refer to the same vulnerability as CVE-2016-1000. However, DWF starts assigning at larger ID numbers.

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Open Vulnerability ID (OVI)

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