Software Search
Use Software Search when you know the vendor, product, package, or framework you want to monitor. Search is best for exact lookup and for checking whether CVEalert tracks a specific product.
Tip
Start with the vendor name when product naming is ambiguous. Vendors often publish several packages with similar names.
Common Tasks
Search for software
Enter a vendor or software name and choose whether to search vendor names, software names, or both. Broader searches are useful for discovery; narrower searches are useful when you already know the exact target.
If no results appear, try a shorter product name, the vendor name, or another spelling used by the upstream project.
Confirm the right product
Review vendor and software names before adding anything to monitoring. This matters for ecosystems with similar packages, renamed products, plugins, forks, or enterprise and community editions.
Warning
Monitoring the wrong product can create irrelevant alerts and hide the product you actually care about. Verify the vendor and software name before adding it.
Add results to monitoring
Select one or more search results and add them to monitoring. Products already monitored do not need to be added again.
After adding software, open Software Monitoring to set thresholds that match the importance of the product.
Use CVE counts carefully
CVE counts help estimate how much vulnerability history a product has. They do not prove the product is currently vulnerable in your environment.
Use CVE counts to guide review and alert-volume expectations, then confirm actual exposure against your inventory.
Notes
- Search results are limited to software known to CVEalert.
- Partial matches can return unrelated products.
- Vendor names, package names, and product names may differ from how your team refers to the software internally.