  Cybersecurity in robotics is an emerging topic that has gained significant
traction. Researchers have demonstrated some of the potentials and effects of
cyber attacks on robots lately. This implies safety related adverse
consequences causing human harm, death or lead to significant integrity loss
clearly overcoming the privacy concerns in classical IT world. In cybersecurity
research, the use of vulnerability databases is a very reliable tool to
responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in software products and raise willingness
of vendors to address these issues. In this paper we argue, that existing
vulnerability databases are of insufficient information density and show some
biased content with respect to vulnerabilities in robots. This paper presents
the Robot Vulnerability Database (RVD), a directory for responsible disclosure
of bugs, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in robots. This article aims to
describe the design and process as well as the associated disclosure policy
behind RVD. Furthermore the authors present preliminary selected
vulnerabilities already contained in RVD and call to the robotics and security
communities for contribution to the endeavour of eliminating zero-day
vulnerabilities in robotics.

Cryptography and Security;Robotics