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In addition, WhiteSource uses a proprietary patent-pending algorithm that matches the specific component with its vulnerability, resulting in a database that contains more than 175,000 vulnerabilities. These are collected on a daily basis from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and other resources and repositories such as RubyOnRails, RetireJS, NodeSecurity and GitHub issue tracker.

Vulnerability Types

There are two types of vulnerabilities:

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