FIRST.org<p>The CVSS Special Interest Group is proud to announce the official release of CVSS v4.0. This latest release marks a significant step forward with added capabilities crucial for teams with the importance of using threat intelligence and environmental metrics for accurate scoring at its core.</p><p>Critical in the interface between supplier and consumer, CVSS provides a way to capture the principal characteristics of a security vulnerability and produces a numerical score reflecting its technical severity to inform and provide guidance to businesses, service providers, government, and the public.</p><p>The numerical score can be represented as a qualitative severity rating (such as low, medium, high, and critical) to help organizations properly assess and prioritize their vulnerability management processes and prepare defenses against cyber-attacks.</p><p>Furthermore, this system allows the consumer to also assess real-time threat and impact, arming them with vital information to help to defend themselves against an attack.</p><p>The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a published standard used by organizations worldwide, and this latest version of CVSS 4.0 seeks to provide the highest fidelity of vulnerability assessment for both industry and the public.</p><p>More can be found here: <a href="https://first.org/cvss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">first.org/cvss</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FIRSTdotOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIRSTdotOrg</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CVSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CVSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BuildingTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingTrust</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PSIRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PSIRT</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CSIRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSIRT</span></a></p>