Abstract: As the large-scale distributed system plays an increasingly important role in such fields of national security,critical infrastructure and social life, its vulnerability analysis has become a growing focus nowadays. Regarding it as a vulnerability analysis object, a multi-layer model for largcscale distributed system was put forward first, and then a multi-dimension vulnerability analysis framework was proposed, which provided an overview of vulnerability analysis research area and method in three aspects, including vulnerability analysis phase, lifecycle process and taxonomy of vulnerability.

Key words: LDS, Vulnerability analysis, Lifecycle process