diff --git a/objects/cve.json b/objects/cve.json
index d1336a771..8130237b7 100644
--- a/objects/cve.json
+++ b/objects/cve.json
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@
       "requirement": "recommended"
     },
     "cwe_uid": {
+      "caption": "CWE ID",
+      "description": "The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a community-developed list of software and hardware weakness types. The CWE Specification provides a common language of discourse for discussing, finding and dealing with the causes of software security vulnerabilities as they are found in code, design, or system architecture. For more information see <a target='_blank' href='https://cwe.mitre.org/'>CWE</a>.",
       "requirement": "optional"
     },
     "cwe_url": {
+      "caption": "CWE URL",
+      "description": "URL to the CWE Specification. For more information see <a target='_blank' href='https://cwe.mitre.org/'>CWE</a>.",
       "requirement": "optional"
     },
     "modified_time": {
diff --git a/objects/cwe.json b/objects/cwe.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..840793d2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/objects/cwe.json
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "caption": "CWE",
+  "description": "The CWE object represents a weakness in a software system that can be exploited by a threat actor to perform an attack. The CWE object is based on the <a target='_blank' href='https://cwe.mitre.org/'>Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)</a> catalog.",
+  "extends": "object",
+  "name": "cwe",
+  "attributes": {
+    "uid": {
+      "caption": "CWE ID",
+      "description": "The Common Weakness Enumeration unique number assigned to a specific weakness. A CWE Identifier begins \"CWE\" followed by a sequence of digits that acts as a unique identifier. For example: <code>CWE-123</code>.",
+      "requirement": "required"
+    },
+    "cwe_url": {
+      "caption": "CWE URL",
+      "description": "The URL to the CWE entry in the <a target='_blank' href='https://cwe.mitre.org/'>Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)</a> list.",
+      "requirement": "optional"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/objects/vulnerability.json b/objects/vulnerability.json
index dcf8761fa..154167fc4 100644
--- a/objects/vulnerability.json
+++ b/objects/vulnerability.json
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
   "extends": "object",
   "attributes": {
     "cve": {
-      "requirement": "required"
+      "requirement": "recommended"
+    },
+    "cwe": {
+      "requirement": "recommended"
     },
     "desc": {
       "description": "The description of the vulnerability.",