Vulnerabilities
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Open Industry Standard
assess and defined the severity of computer system vulnerability
O to 10
Score can range
from
How this started?
National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) launch the CVSS version 1 in Feb 2005
NIAC goal was to define open and universally standard ratings of software vulnerabilities
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
NIAC Role
April 2005 -
NIAC established a Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and became custodian of CVSS for future development
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
CVSS Journey
April 2005 - CVSS V1 launched
June 2007 - CVSS V2 launched
June 2015 - CVSS V3 launched
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
CVSS Latest
June 2019 -
Minor update CVSS v3.1 was launched with new standard CVSS Extension Framework was defined.
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
CVSS Adaption
CVSS is adopted as the primary method for measure the severity of vulnerability by most organizations and companies across the Globe
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities then and Now
NACVSS