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 ...

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 ...

A new version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0) has been unveiled publicly by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) on July 13, 2023. CVSS is the open industry ...

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

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 ...

Leading IT companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft , and Symantec are promoting a rating system that will standardize the measurement of the severity of software vulnerabilities. A plan for the ...

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 ...

Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access to corporate servers for data theft and to deploy Clop ransomware. The Forum of Incident ...

Qualys announced its vulnerability-management service QualysGuard now supports a rating methodology called Common Vulnerability Scoring System. CVSS can be used to express the criticality of a ...

The Exploit Prediction Scoring System has its shortcomings, but it can complement CVSS to help better prioritize and assess vulnerability risk. The Common Vulnerability Scanning System (CVSS) is the ...