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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.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

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

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.
NIST SP 800-1281 senseview framework →
§1
An SCAP specification for communicating the characteristics of vulnerabilities and measuring their relative severity.

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