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Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3acronym list

CVSS: Common Vulnerabilit y Scoring System

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
CVSS
plural
Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems
possessive
Common Vulnerability Scoring System's
pluralpossessive
Common Vulnerability Scoring Systems'