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Capturing Software Vulnerability Data in SPDX 3.0

The flexibility of SPDX 3.0 allows users to either link SBOMs to external security vulnerability data or to embed security vulnerability information in the SPDX 3.0 data format, thanks to support for a security-specific profile. This is different from SPDX version 2, which enabled users to link an SBOM to vulnerability-related information.

Understanding SPDX Profiles

On the surface, profiles are pretty straight forward - they are a way of organizing a specification that covers a broad array of use cases into “profiles” more specific to what a specific producer or consumer of SPDX data may be interested in.