cvssv3

January 19, 2017

SECURITY

Scoring Cisco Security Vulnerabilities with CVSSv3

1 min read

The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is now scoring all security advisories addressing security vulnerabilities that affect Cisco products and multivendor vulnerability alerts using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System version 3 (CVSSv3). The stakeholders at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) have done a great job in this new version […]

April 28, 2016

SECURITY

The Evolution of Scoring Security Vulnerabilities

6 min read

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which is used by many in the industry as a standard way to assess and score security vulnerabilities, is evolving to a new version known as CVSSv3. These changes addressed some of the challenges that existed in CVSSv2; CVSSv3 analyzes the scope of a vulnerability and identifies the privileges […]