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CVSS is an industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system security vulnerabilities. It attempts to establish a measure of how much concern a vulnerability warrants, compared to other vulnerabilities, so efforts can be prioritized. It offers the following benefits.
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Ou, X., Singhal, A. (2012). The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). In: Quantitative Security Risk Assessment of Enterprise Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1860-3_3
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