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Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) with Nessus. By Paul Asadoorian on May 24th, 2010. You may know the folks over at MITRE for their work on the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures). Standards such as CVE help us track and document thousands of vulnerabilities released each year. Along the same lines, a new project from MITRE called CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) provides the public with a standard method to enumerate software: CPE is a structured naming scheme for information technology systems, platforms, and packages.