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{{Short description|International information security community standard}}

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'''Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language''' ('''OVAL''') is an international, [[information security]], community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout the community. The language standardizes the three main steps of the assessment process:

# representing configuration information of systems for testing;