Federal flaw database commits to grading system

Federal flaw database commits to grading system
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-12-02

A federal database of software vulnerabilities funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided on a common method of ranking flaw severity and has assigned scores to the more than 13,000 vulnerabilities currently contained in its database, the group announced this week.

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Federal flaw database commits to grading system 2005-12-02
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Federal flaw database commits to grading system 2005-12-03
Juha-Matti Laurio

NVD has published an useful Common Vulnerability Scoring System Calculator for producing severity scores. Level of authentication needed and Type of fix available are some of the metrics used. This calculator is located at

http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator

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Federal flaw database commits to grading system 2005-12-06
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