Understanding the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Analysis Jun 9, 2008 4 mins You may have noticed over the last couple years that Cisco has been sending out its PSIRT e-mails with a Common ...

For more than 15 years, vendors have used the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) rating system to describe the severity and scope of security flaws. The familiar 0–10 scoring format has served ...

A vulnerability in a tightly isolated sandbox may score a 9.8 but never affect anything else. Meanwhile, a 5.2 in a single ...

The latest version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS version 4.0), released last week, should enable organizations to better assess and manage the risk that a security bug might pose to ...

Picture the scenario: you log into your vulnerability management dashboard on a Monday morning. The scan ran overnight, and the report lights up with a dozen new high-severity CVEs. One stands out ...

Aram Hovespyan, co-founder and CEO of security biz Codific, says that the rating systems for identifying security vulnerabilities and assessing threat risk need to be overhauled.… Having examined the ...

We’ve talked a few times here about the issues with the CVSS system. We’ve seen CVE farming, where a moderate issue, or even a non-issue, gets assigned a ridiculously high CVSS score. There are times ...

The soon-to-be-released scoring system update has promise, but challenges remain for it to deliver exactly what CISOs need to get ahead of the latest vulnerabilities. Anyone in cybersecurity who has ...

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