CCE Requirements

Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE) Requirements

• The product's documentation (printed or electronic) must state that it uses CCE and explain relevant details to the users of the product.

• The vendor shall provide instructions on how product output can be generated that contains a listing of all security configuration issue items both with and without CCE IDs. Instructions shall include where the CCE IDs and the associated vendor supplied and/or official CCE descriptions can be located within the product output.

• The vendor shall provide instructions noting where the CCE ID can be located within the product output. The vendor shall provide procedures and a test environment (if necessary) so that the product will output configuration issues with associated CCE IDs.

• The vendor shall provide documentation (printed or electronic) indicating how security configuration issue items can be located using CCE names.

• The vendor shall provide instructions on where the dates for all offline CCE data can be inspected in the product output.