#CVSS
7 stories taggedCVSS.

AI Found Thousands of Flaws in Days. Humans Can't Patch Them Fast Enough.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos model discovered more security holes in major software than years of human review had caught. That's exciting for defenders and terrifying for everyone else, because the gap between finding a flaw and fixing it is already dangerously wide.

Cisco Patches a Dozen Flaws in SD-WAN and IOS XE, Three Rated Critical
An internal Cisco security review turned up 12 vulnerabilities, including three with a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, in software that runs corporate networks worldwide.

Veeam Console Bug Hands Over Agent Credentials; Terraform MCP Server Leaks Tokens Between Users
Eleven fixes across HashiCorp, Veeam and Django include a 9.5-rated Veeam flaw and a cross-tenant Terraform MCP Server bug that reuses one customer's cloud token for the next.

What is a CVE and how does vulnerability scoring work?
CVEs are the universal ID system for software flaws, and CVSS scores tell you how bad each one actually is.

Security Debt Is Growing Faster Than Companies Can Fix It. Here Is What That Means.
Eight in ten organisations are sitting on a backlog of unresolved security flaws that stretch back more than a year. A practical framework, first outlined in CSO Online, explains how to turn that problem into a board-level conversation.

CISA's New Patching Directive Drops CVSS as the North Star
BOD 26-04 introduces a four-factor framework that prioritizes internet exposure, active exploitation, and attacker automation over raw severity scores — and gives agencies three days to act on the worst cases.

Inspector General Pins NVD Backlog on NIST Mismanagement — But the Real Problem Runs Deeper
A Commerce Department IG report calls out strategic failures, duplicated work, and severity scores that matched only 12% of the time. Budget cuts and genAI-driven vuln volume tell the rest of the story.