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Cybersecurity Advances · Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) · pp. 46–58

Cross-Format Semantic Preservation in Vulnerability Exploitability Exchange: A Conformance and Round-Trip Benchmark of OpenVEX 0.2.0, CycloneDX 1.6, and CSAF 2.0

ATS PRESS Research Group

VEX formats encode overlapping semantics but differ in schema and surrounding data models. This controlled benchmark measures schema conformance and semantic retention across all six ordered translations among OpenVEX 0.2.0, CycloneDX 1.6, and CSAF 2.0.