Security

Explain CVE and CVSS

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Red Hat : "When someone refers to a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), they mean a security flaw that's been assigned a CVE ID number. They don’t include technical data, or information about risks, impacts, and fixes." So CVE is just identified by an ID written with 8 digits. The CVE ID have the following format: CVE prefix + Year + Arbitrary Digits. Anyone can submit a vulnerability, Exploit Database explains how it works to submit.

Then CVSS stands for Common Vulnerability Scoring System, it attempts to assign severity scores to vulnerabilities, allowing to ordonnance and prioritize responses and resources according to threat.