CVSS

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

When videoconferencing service Zoom searched for a better way to assign a severity to vulnerabilities found during bug bounty programs, the company’s security team could not find a suitable approach: The popular Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) was too subjective, and the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) was too focused on the probability of exploitation….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

The soon-to-be-released Version 4.0 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) promises to fix a number of issues with the severity metric for security bugs. But vulnerability experts say that prioritizing patches or measuring exploitability will still be a tough nut to crack. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) released a preview…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Tracked as CVE-2021-21477 and featuring a CVSS score of 9.9, the critical issue could be abused for remote code execution, SAP explains in its advisory. The vulnerability impacts SAP Commerce if the rule engine extension is installed. Meant to define and execute rules to manage decision-making scenarios, the rule engine uses a ruleContent attribute offering…

Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: CSO

Microsoft recently changed how it presents and explains its security vulnerabilities in its products. The new security guide aligns itself with security and industry standards by describing the vulnerabilities with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which presents a vulnerability’s key characteristics and assigns a numerical score to its severity. The intent of that score…