Customizable Vulnerability Analysis and Classification

Due to the many complications within the various vulnerability databases, my thesis presents a tool, VACT, which scans the vulnerability databases, searches for specified vulnerabilities by the classification given, and returns the selected vulnerabilities in a downloadable and statistical form. VACT allows for one to gather customizable trend analysis results from a user defined search of vulnerability databases. The user selects each classification used within the search. The search is conducted by comparing the classification to the vulnerabilities description. Trend analysis results are returned by separating the statistics of the vulnerabilities found per year selected.