CVSS Scoring

Learn CVSS scoring and how it’s used to assess the severity of vulnerabilities.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), is a standardized system designed to provide an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. Simply put, a CVSS score tells us how dangerous a discovered vulnerability is. The higher the score, the more dangerous the discovered vulnerability is.

CVSS scoring is structured around three metric groups:

  • Base score: This score captures the ...