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1. tptacek ◴[] No.43604427[source]

Broken record, but "has a CVSS score of 10.0" is literally meaningless. In fact, over the last couple years, I've come to take vulnerabilities with very high CVSS scores less seriously. Remember, Heartbleed was a "7.5".

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2. marcolussetti ◴[] No.43604810[source]

That's mostly due to the switch from CVSS 2 to CVSS 3

3. pclmulqdq ◴[] No.43605410[source]

I am pretty convinced that CVSS has a very significant component of "how enterprise is it." Accepting untrusted parquet files without verification or exposing apache spark directly to users is a very "enterprise" thing to do (alongside having log4j log untrusted user inputs). Heartbleed sounded too technical and not "enterprise" enough.

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4. b8 ◴[] No.43606314[source]

A new scoring system should be made that is a better signal.

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5. tptacek ◴[] No.43606373[source]

I think the original one did just fine: "info, low, medium, high, crit".

I could even do without "crit".

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6. saagarjha ◴[] No.43606374[source]

It's quite hard to do this.

7. worthless-trash ◴[] No.43606709{3}[source]

I believe companies often call that the flaws impact.

It is different than the cvss rating.

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8. tptacek ◴[] No.43606866{4}[source]

In that it is meaningful, yes.

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9. positr0n ◴[] No.43607573[source]

> alongside having log4j log untrusted user inputs

I'd think logging things like query parameters is extremely common.

10. worthless-trash ◴[] No.43609087{5}[source]

Surely you think AV:P has a meaningful description in the CVSS Score ?

11. tgv ◴[] No.43609363[source]

It may be noisy, but recently Draytek routers had a 10 point one, and indeed, an office router had been taken over. It would stubornly reboot every couple of minutes, and not accept upgrades.

12. junon ◴[] No.43610358[source]

Yep. Any software these days can be "network accessible" if you put a server in front of it; that's usually what pumps the score up.