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TZubiri • today at 7:54 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>CVSS of 10 doesn't actually mean anything.

Might you perchance be exaggerating?


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tptacek • today at 8:00 PM

No? CVSS is a Ouija board. Citrix directory traversal got scored 10.0. So did a Cisco Broadworks SSO bypass. Meanwhile, Shellshock did not.

CVSS is like the Pitchfork Music ratings scale. It communicates false precision, and it's easy to point to places where that precision misleads (D-plan's "Emergency & I" is not better than every Yo La Tengo album).

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