Relying on CVSS scores to estimate the risk to security may be placing individuals and the enterprise at greater risk than believed, researchers say. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is ...

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 software development industry's increasing reliance on open source components has led to a rise in awareness of open source security vulnerabilities, resulting in a drastic increase in the number ...

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 ...

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System, or CVSS for short, is the first and only open framework for scoring the risk associated with vulnerabilities. CVSS is designed to rank information system ...

This week a reader sent me a story about a CVE in Notepad++, and something isn’t quite right. The story is a DLL hijack, a technique where a legitimate program’s Dynamic Link Library (DLL) is replaced ...

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 ...

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 ...